Darwin s Radio by Greg Bear 1999 Thriller Hardcover with Dust Jacket 1st Ed
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Greg Bear s powerfully written, brilliantly inventive novels combine cutting-edge science and unforgettable characters, illuminating dazzling new technologies and their dangers. Now, in Darwin s Radio, Bear draws on state-of-the-art biological and anthropological research to give us an ingeniously plotted thriller that questions everything we believe about human origins and destiny as civilization confronts the next terrifying step in evolution.
A mass grave in Russia that conceals the mummified remains of two women, both with child and the conspiracy to keep it secret. a major discovery high in the Alps: the preserved bodies of a prehistoric family the newborn infant possessing disturbing characteristics. a mysterious disease that strikes only pregnant women, resulting in miscarriage. Three disparate facts that will converge into one science-shattering truth.
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Looking for a great novel? Here are some of our top picks to add to your spring reading list.
Surviving Savannah by Patti Callahan
This absorbing historical novel by Callahan (author of
Becoming Mrs. Lewis, among a stack of others) is based on a real-life event referred to as the “
Titanic of the South : the 1838 sinking of the
Pulaski, a luxury steamship, that killed many of Savannah s elite. The novel begins in modern times, with Savannah history professor Everly Winthrop drawn into the story while curating recently discovered artifacts for a museum collection. She reconstructs the experiences of two women from a family of 11 who were on the ship, one of whom, Augusta Longstreet, survived to tell her tale. The other, Augusta s niece Lilly Forsyth, was lost at sea with h
You know that feeling when you pick up a book for the first time and think, “yeah, I’m going to read this in all of two seconds” because of how quickly the storyline sucks you in? Well, the books released in just the first week of March will reel you in faster than you can say “literary, literally.”
Books do a lot for readers: They provide a place to escape, insight into worlds you’d never thought possible and an uncanny ability to help solve problems you didn’t even know existed. Just yesterday,
Black Panther: Tales of Wakanda hit the shelves, giving us yet another way of interpreting the fictional world of Wakanda through the eyes of authors across the African diaspora like Nikki Giovanni, Harlan James, Danian Jerry and more. Other mystical tales include
For the last six years, Galwaywoman Geraldine Renton has been one of the most popular bloggers in the country. Her writings have focused on her role as a determined and driven carer for her young son Ethan, who suffered from Hunter Syndrome, a rare genetic life limiting condition which mainly affects boys. In that time, she has become a champion for other carers; her words clear and concise, her advocacy appreciated, her forthrightness a welcome distraction.
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Director Gore Verbinski, best known for directing several
Pirates of the Caribbean films, announced the project in an interview with Collider. This is arguably a bigger deal for fans than the
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Sandkings is good enough to hold three important distinctions: 1) it’s considered a novelette, 2) it’s important enough that the short story collection it appears is actually titled
Sandkings, and 3) it won both the Hugo and Nebula Awards in 1980, Martin’s only story to do so.
The story is what could only be called a doozy: Simon Kress, a rich man on the planet Baldur, buys some mysterious exotic pets called sandkings. These creatures divide into colonies, build small castles, and go to war with each other. When Simon projects a hologram of his head into their terrarium, they even start decorating their castle with images of his face. Unfortunately, Kress is a huge jerk and an extremely bad pet owner, and begins to mistreat the sandki