Since 1987 I have kept track of the books that I read. From 1987 through 2004 I kept hand written notes about the books, name, title, date read and a little blurb about the book. Between 2004 and 2010, I kept track of the books at Goodreads.com. From 2010, I ‘ve kept my bookshelf at Goodreads and also posted at this site. Since this site is about the books I read and have read, I thought that I’d go back and start posting about the older books I’ve read. This will allow me to make more complete profiles of the various authors that I read. This post is the start of posts about older books.
Travel with me now back to 1987 and let’s explore the books from 27 years ago, seems a lot less than that!!
The first book listed in my first “A Book Lover’s Journal is not a mystery, but a science fiction book, Blood Music from Greg Bear. I think that this is the cover of the version that I read….
My Blurb…..strange book about intelligent cells taking over. Interesting concept about “thought universe” Is everybody we know alive in our cells??
From Wikipedia:
Blood Music is a science fiction novel by Greg Bear (ISBN 0-7434-4496-5). It was originally published as a short story in 1983 in the American science fiction magazine Analog Science Fact & Fiction, winning the 1983 Nebula Award for Best Novelette and the 1984 Hugo Award for Best Novelette.
Greg Bear published an expanded version in novel form in 1985. The completed novel was nominated for the Nebula Award in 1985[1] and for the Hugo, Campbell, and British Science Fiction Awards in 1986.[1]
Blood Music deals with themes including biotechnology, nanotechnology (including the grey goo hypothesis), the nature of consciousness and of artificial intelligence. Read More
From Goodreads:
An amazing breakthrough in genetic engineering made by Vergil Ulam is considered too dangerous for further research, but rather than destroy his work, he injects himself with his creation and walks out of his lab, unaware of just quite how his actions will change the world. Author Greg Bear’s treatment of the traditional tale of scientific hubris is both suspenseful and a compelling portrait of a new intelligence emerging amongst us, irrevocably changing our world More at Goodreads
Throughout the 1970s and 1980s I read more science fiction than I do today. If I had more time or read faster, I would read more from the genre and Bear would certainly be an author that I would catch up with, in fact, there is a Greg Bear book on one of my to be read shelves Darwin’s Radio.!
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Coming Next: Motor City Blues – The first Amos Walker book and my first Loren D. Estleman book!
