mpemburn said:

“I thought this was a stunning story and one that I'll go back and read again over the years. It contains ideas that resonate in today's world.

Have any of y'all read the sequel "Darwin's Children"? Other than the poor choice of title, I found it to be a compelling read. It attempts to wrap up the world set in motion in the original in terms of the consequences of the actions of key players introduced to us in "Darwin's Radio". It works only because Greg Bear is such a good story teller though at times you can see that he's stretching. You can also see that he's very angry about some of the realities of our early 21st century world -- and how they play out against the bleak possibilities he imagined in his first novel in this series. It's striking how different a book published in 1999 can be from one publish since late 2001 . . .”

posted Thursday, October 11 2007