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Title:
Blood Music
Genre:
Science Fiction
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Series:
SFBC 50th Anniversary Collection
Series Order:
27
Binding:
Hardcover
Type of Book:
Fiction
Number of Pages:
255
Date Added:
2018-06-26 18:15:24
Synopsis:
Smart cells, big changes…
Greg Bear
“Blood Music“
Genetron was being very careful. The firm had succeeded where others had failed, combining protein molecular circuitry with silicon electronics to create programmable, medically applicable biochips, or MABs. It was the first useful product of the biochip revolution, and any bad press would jeopardize all that they’d accomplished.
Brilliant and eccentric, Vergil Ulam had been working on the project for nearly three years and had recognized Genetron’s shortsightedness: Why limit oneself to silicon and amino acid biochips when a single mammalian cell had the DNA capacity to store huge amounts of information? The idea fascinated him, and the fact that no one else at Genetron had made the connection was a source of deep satisfaction, since I left him free to use the company’s labs for private research.
Using his own white blood cells, Vergil had actually developed lymphocytes within an ability to learn… to think… and to pass the learning on to other cells. Then the roof fell in. Somehow Genetron discovered his secret computer file — just the sort of thing that, if leaked, could ruin the firm’s position in the marketplace. He was ordered to destroy his research, or face not only dismissal but also industry-wide blacklisting. Yet he had come too far to simply throw it all away.
So Vergil made a faithful decision: he injected the altered cells into his bloodstream. And what followed with nothing short of a miracle: bizarre physical changes that scared him at first, then enthralled him… Increasingly sophisticated communications from the intelligent micro-organisms he’d created, like music in his blood.
The transformation had begun.
Greg Bear
“Blood Music“
Genetron was being very careful. The firm had succeeded where others had failed, combining protein molecular circuitry with silicon electronics to create programmable, medically applicable biochips, or MABs. It was the first useful product of the biochip revolution, and any bad press would jeopardize all that they’d accomplished.
Brilliant and eccentric, Vergil Ulam had been working on the project for nearly three years and had recognized Genetron’s shortsightedness: Why limit oneself to silicon and amino acid biochips when a single mammalian cell had the DNA capacity to store huge amounts of information? The idea fascinated him, and the fact that no one else at Genetron had made the connection was a source of deep satisfaction, since I left him free to use the company’s labs for private research.
Using his own white blood cells, Vergil had actually developed lymphocytes within an ability to learn… to think… and to pass the learning on to other cells. Then the roof fell in. Somehow Genetron discovered his secret computer file — just the sort of thing that, if leaked, could ruin the firm’s position in the marketplace. He was ordered to destroy his research, or face not only dismissal but also industry-wide blacklisting. Yet he had come too far to simply throw it all away.
So Vergil made a faithful decision: he injected the altered cells into his bloodstream. And what followed with nothing short of a miracle: bizarre physical changes that scared him at first, then enthralled him… Increasingly sophisticated communications from the intelligent micro-organisms he’d created, like music in his blood.
The transformation had begun.
Author:
Greg Bear
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Publisher:
The Science Fiction Book Club
Barcode:
9780739468548
Country:
United States
Place of Printing:
United States of America
Publication Year:
2006
Copyright Year:
1985
Number of Copies:
1
Language:
English
Has Dustcover:
Yes
Automatic Estimated Value:
~$19.98
Automatic Estimated Date:
2025-12-06
Date Added:
2018-06-26 18:15:24
