Sinopsis

Virgil Ulam is a maverick researcher working on biochips which will use DNA as a means of information processing. Ignoring guidelines for genetic research, goes further, producing intelligent cellular matter which can outperform laboratory rats. On being found out and ordered to destroy the experiment, he injects himself with some of the culture, and walks out carrying a seed which will develop far beyond the limits of his brilliant but blinkered imagination.‘A stunning near-future novel, always chillingly believable. It is rare that one can be sure that a book is destined to become a classic. Blood Music undoubtedly will’NEIL GAIMAN‘A work of thoroughgoing excellence’GREGORY BENFORD‘A dazzling flight of disciplined imagination’POUL ANDERSON