Terrific book... sorry, it's been so long since I read it, I can't say much more... so here's the blurb from the back (even though there are too many full stops).

"Vergil Ulam was the genius behind "biologic". The restructuring of cells. Cells that can think. When Genetron canceled the project, Vergil smuggled his life's work out of the lab the only way he knew how. He injected himself with them. At first, the effects of the "intelligent" lymphocytes were small miracles. His eyesight, his overall health, even his sex life, improved. But now, something strage is happening. Vergil's concocted cells are capable of forming complex organisms and eventually whole societies in his blood and body. He carries a universe within himself. A universe of cells. Intelligent cells. And they think it's time for a change..."

Passed to UrbanSpaceman at the Unconvention, Apres Café Bar, Summerrow.

Acquired at the Unconvention last weekend. How many of AliceF's books did I take? Onto the the TBR pile...

Blood Music was orginally published twenty years ago but holds up pretty well against the changes that have ocurred both in the world and in technology since then and the central idea has now become an established sf meme, albeit usually featuring nanotech rather than living cells.

The style is perhaps reminiscent of an 'airport novel' - multiple characters showing diffrent aspects of the story, but it is none the worse for that, I think.

A good example of hard SF implemented by an accomplished writer.

RELEASE NOTES:

This book will be released at the next Kingston BookCrossing Meetup - Tuesday 28 March, 7-11 pm. All are welcome - we'll be sitting in the sofas and will have piles of books and a BookCrossing sign with us. For more information, please PM UrbanSpaceman.

Picked up at the March Kingston Meeting.

I wasn't so enamoured with this book - specifically I felt the writing was quite stilted at the start and then it appeared to morph into just another disaster book (although not a particularly well rounded one as the POV limited to 3 or so - Arthur Hailey would've used many more!! :-). What saved the book were the concepts being considered, which were pretty mindblowing and cool (or horrifying, depending on how you look at it), although i did feel towards the end of the novel that Bear was piling on new concepts/implications without giving proper regard to how it was incorporated into the prose. This made it feel like they'd been hastily added on as they were thought up. A sort of 'But wait! There's more!'.

RELEASE NOTES:

The North Kingston Centre is on Richmond Road, towards Richmond. I left 'Blood Music' just inside the main door on the right.