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Darwin's Children: A Novel (Darwin's Radio) by Greg Bear; Random House is a work of fiction available to read on EtoBox.

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Amazon.com ReviewDarwin's Children, Greg Bear's follow-up to Darwin's Radio, is top-shelf science fiction, thrilling and intellectually charged. It's no standalone, though. The plot and characters are certainly independent of the previous novel, but the background in Darwin's Radio is essential to nonbiologists trying to understand what's going on. The next stage of human evolution has arrived, announced by the birth of bizarre "virus children." Now the children with the hypersenses and odd faces are growing up, and the world has to figure out what to do with them. The answer is evil and all too human, as governments put the kids in camps to protect regular folks from imagined dangers. Mitch and Kaye, scientists whose daughter Stella is swept up in the fray, become unwillingly involved in the politics that erupt around the issue of the new humans. Harrowing chases, gun battles, epidemics, and tense meetings about civil rights ensue, all brilliantly narrated. But just when you think you've got the book figured out, Bear throws a massive curveball by introducing... religion. That's right, a good old-fashioned epiphany, plopped down in the middle of a hard science fiction novel. But e

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Author
Greg Bear; Random House
Publisher
Del Rey Ballantine Books
Published
1987
Language
EN
ISBN
9780345448361
Category
work of fiction
Subjects
Literary Fiction, Fiction, Science Fiction
Rating
3.62 / 5 (122 ratings)
Updated
2026-03-14

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