Blood Music (Magill’s Guide to Science Fiction and Fantasy Literature)
At a glance:
- Author: Greg Bear
- First Published: 1985
- Type of Work: Novel
- Type of Plot: Fantasy—evolutionary fantasy
- Time of Work: The late twentieth century
- Setting: California, New York, Germany, and Great Britain
- Genres: Long fiction, Science fiction, Fantasy
- Subjects: New York, North America or North Americans, Northeast, U.S., United States or Americans, Twentieth century, California, West, U.S., Bioengineering or biotechnology, Germany or German people, Great Britain, Metamorphosis or transmogrification, Mad scientists, Evolution, Thought or thinking
- Locales: California, New York, Germany, Great Britain
The Plot
Thirty-two-year-old Vergil Ulam is a brilliant but undisciplined bioengineer at the Genetron laboratories in La Jolla, California. This area is known as Enzyme Valley, the biochip equivalent of Silicon Valley. His pet project is what he calls “biologic,” the development of “thinking” lymphocytes that he describes as autonomous organic computers. When his employer learns that Ulam has been conducting this research for the past two years on mammalian cells, Ulam is fired. Before he leaves the building, he injects himself with the cells and destroys the records of...
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