Blood Music | Social Concerns
In the hard science fiction novel Blood Music, Bear explores the far-reaching impact of biotechnological research gone awry. Vergil I. Ulam is a researcher in cutting-edge biochip technology, described as "the incorporation of protein molecular circuitry with silicon electronics." This work on genes is believed to have important medical applications. Vergil's scientific quest is outside the specific goals of his employer, who claims ethical and governmental restrictions on projects where there is a risk of creating new plagues. Vergil is ordered to destroy his cultures, which...
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