- Hardcover: 448 pages
- Publisher: HarperCollins (21 Nov 2005)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0007129785
- ISBN-13: 978-0007129782
- Product Dimensions: 23.6 x 15 x 4.1 cm
- Average Customer Review: 3.3 out of 5 stars See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 1,192,102 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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'Whatever Bear touches turns epic… rarely have I felt so much the presence of great events' THE TIMES
‘Darwin’s Radio is a tense technothriller in the Michael Crichton vein… But it's got a disturbing twist… profoundly unsettling.’ NEW SCIENTIST
'Greg Bear's Darwin's Radio is one of the most intelligent and original thrillers of recent years’ Locus
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There is a clash of cultures and generations within the FBI. But old and young face new kinds of criminal behavior – crimes unimagined in past decades, and tough to solve now.
It’s the near future – sooner than you might hope – and the war against terrorism is lost, nuclear and biological weapons are in the hands of radicals, abortion clinics are wiped out. And still the threat is escalating. A memory-plague designed to wipe out history’s age-old hatreds might be the last act in the story of the modern world. Three agents are finishing their training at the FBI Academy in Quantico, Virginia and this is the challenge facing them.
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14 of 14 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
I always get nervous when an author moves out of genre. More often than not it's a mistake. I thought long and and hard about buying the book because recently I've read several novels by authors who should have stuck to writing what they know about.
In the event I needn't have worried. It's a near future thriller and handled with all the style that Bears readers will already know and he makes the transition from SF to thriller with ease.
Characterisation is slim, but given the books breadth of scope and (comparative) lack of pages he does what he can. If it was a film, I could have imagined some of the actors asking 'what's my motivation' when they were reading the script. The story moves along briskly carried from several viewpoints and with no real holes in the plot. There's technology there, but it's not too far removed from what we know and therefore isn't the star of the show.
There'd have been 4 stars if the ending had been better. It's not that it's implausible or exactly disappointing, but perhaps from my perspective it's a bit abrupt and not the one I'd have written :-) as it seems out of place with the tone of the rest of the book.
In the event I needn't have worried. It's a near future thriller and handled with all the style that Bears readers will already know and he makes the transition from SF to thriller with ease.
Characterisation is slim, but given the books breadth of scope and (comparative) lack of pages he does what he can. If it was a film, I could have imagined some of the actors asking 'what's my motivation' when they were reading the script. The story moves along briskly carried from several viewpoints and with no real holes in the plot. There's technology there, but it's not too far removed from what we know and therefore isn't the star of the show.
There'd have been 4 stars if the ending had been better. It's not that it's implausible or exactly disappointing, but perhaps from my perspective it's a bit abrupt and not the one I'd have written :-) as it seems out of place with the tone of the rest of the book.
4 of 4 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
Greg Bear has certainly written a page turner with Quantico.
A quite beleivable story of bio-terrorism that fairly races along. The synopsis explains all you need to know so I won't repeat it. Just buy the book and enjoy a good read.
A quite beleivable story of bio-terrorism that fairly races along. The synopsis explains all you need to know so I won't repeat it. Just buy the book and enjoy a good read.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
A liberal Tom Clancy, and I don't use the phrase in a complimentary manner. I've read Greg Bear before and this is distinctly lackluster compared to quality work such as EON. As in so much of this genre, the plot only holds together by coincidence and revelation, the characters whilst engaging are unsophisticated and the politics particularly insipid. All in all a disappointment from an author that is capable of delivering more.
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Rather routine thriller
In a very near future world even more riven by terrorist atrocities, a rogue FBI agent with a very unusual genetic profile decides that something has to be done. Read more
Published 16 months ago by A. J. Poulter
Too much like reading the TV news
I want non reality
The real world is full of nasty nations killing each other, strife and hassle. Read more
The real world is full of nasty nations killing each other, strife and hassle. Read more
Published on 17 May 2008 by CjW
Great read
I have read a lot of Greg Bear's novels and liked them all. This one is no exception. The review above pretty much tells the story. Read more
Published on 25 Aug 2006 by tony hogan
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