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by Greg Bear (Author)
2.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (9 customer reviews)

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  • Paperback: 352 pages
  • Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers Ltd; New edition edition (1 Sep 2003)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0007129750
  • ISBN-13: 978-0007129751
  • Product Dimensions: 17.7 x 11.1 x 2.4 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 2.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (9 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 973,608 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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'Greg Bear has written an excellent thriller and one that easily ranks alongside Marathon Man or The Odessa File ! From start to finish this startling science thriller trying to guess !an enjoyable and extremely readable thriller' Enigma 'A chilling air of highly infectious paranoia ! alarmingly proficient cross-genre thriller makes The X-Files feel curiously tame and is surely destined for cult success' Starburst 'Brilliantly playing on our fears about government conspiracies, Bear's remarkable thriller combines extremely authoritative scholarship with impressive page-turning skills' Starlog '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 ! a suspense novel that pushes a lot of contemporary buttons ! this season's most convincing candidate for a bestselling thriller ! As with his other books, the special pleasures of Bear's writing come from its interaction of Big Ideas with more down-to-earth human issues ! Bear is one of a handful of writers in the field who manage both the complexity of the intellectual material and the solidity and depth of feeling required for a 'novel of ideas' to be a real novel.' LOCUS 'Greg Bear builds a neat conspiracy, back-tracking the entire 20th century as he ties politics, war and atrocity into humanity's next upgrade. Real page-turning stuff' SFX


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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars Lots of interesting biology, but..., 23 Jul 2003
This review is from: Vitals (Mass Market Paperback)
After reading Blood Music (the novel) and Darwin's Radio, I bought Vitals and thought I was going to have a good time reading interesting things about biology.
The book started well, and I was looking forward to learning the secret about stopping the aging process in humans. The thriller aspect was there as well (who is "programming" humans, and who is trying to keep the secret from Hal Cousins, and why?), until the story goes over the top, so to say.
It seems to me that the author had to many ideas he wanted to stuff in the book with too few pages to do it on.

The fact that there are two "I" persons telling the story is not confusing.. but it isn't exactly helpful for the plot, in my opinion.

If you haven't read anything from Bear, don't start with this one. Save it until later.

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5 of 6 people found the following review helpful:
1.0 out of 5 stars Unreadably awful, 4 Nov 2003
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I couldn't actually complete this book, giving up in disgust 2/3 of the way through. Possibly a clever plot idea hides within this book somewhere but the jerky plotline makes this very hard to find. What made the book hardest to read though were the poor characterisations, each character being indistinguishable from the next. I was left not knowing and, worse, not caring who each was and what they were up to. A very poor book.
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3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
1.0 out of 5 stars Not worth reading, 10 Feb 2004
I agree with other reviewers though I struggled through to the end of the book. The basic premise could have been interesting, but the conspiracy stuff got a bit "X Files"/"Alias". The characters were cardboard cut outs, especially the women. The writing style was jarring. And the plot got itself so tangled up that it made no sense in the end. Perhaps Mr Bear knew what the story was but he didn't manage to communicate it. Give it a miss
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