Blood Music | Ideas for Group Discussions
Because of its topical focus on the biotechnological altering of human life, Blood Music should generate intriguing discussions. The novel incorporates a disturbing question typically found in Bear's fiction: What may humankind's destiny be? Bear has said that humankind now can control evolution toward its own ends. A good line to pursue is whether readers believe a materialistic future is inevitable, as Blood Music suggests. Discussion groups may benefit from comparing the novel's culmination to that of Clarke's Childhood's End.
Bear's fiction generally...
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