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Darwin's children / Greg Bear.
LIBRA - Adams Collection SciFi Bear, G. 3
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Bear, Greg, 1951-2022.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Mutation (Biology)--Fiction.
- Mutation (Biology).
- Parent and child--Fiction.
- Parent and child.
- Social control.
- Social control--Fiction.
- Children--Fiction.
- Children.
- Viruses--Fiction.
- Viruses.
- Science fiction.
- Virginia--Fiction.
- Virginia.
- Genre:
- Fiction.
- Science fiction.
- Novels.
- Penn Provenance:
- Adams, Mark B. (donor) (Adams Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- 387 pages ; 22 cm
- Edition:
- [Book club edition].
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Ballantine Books, 2003.
- Summary:
- Eleven years have passed since SHEVA, an ancient retrovirus, was discovered in human DNA - a retrovirus that caused mutations in teh human genome and heralded the arrival of a new wave of genetically enhanced humans. Now these changed children have reached adolescence ... and face a world that is outraged about their very existence. For these special youths, possessed of remarkable, advanced traits that mark a major turning point in human development, are also ticking time bombs harboring hosts of viruses that could exterminate the "old" human race.
- Notes:
- Jacket illustration by Ben Perini.
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 385-387).
- Local Notes:
- Adams Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2015 by Dr. Mark B. Adams.
- Adams Collection copy has dustjacket.
- Cited in:
- Internet Speculative Fiction Database, 233905
- OCLC:
- 961021909
- Publisher Number:
- 55254 Science Fiction Book Club
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