{"id":583,"date":"2006-09-26T20:30:00","date_gmt":"2006-09-26T20:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/?p=583"},"modified":"2025-04-24T17:45:45","modified_gmt":"2025-04-24T17:45:45","slug":"book-log-darwins-radio","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/?p=583","title":{"rendered":"Book Log – Darwin’s Radio"},"content":{"rendered":"

Darwin’s Radio<\/i> by Greg Bear<\/p>\n

Thanks to galbinus_caeli<\/a> for the loaner.<\/p>\n

An interesting hard-science-fiction piece concerning DNA and evolution (an extremely punctuated equilibrium brand of evolution, though not necessarily one you want to read if you’re expecting. Much of the plot revolves around diseased pregnancies, and some of it takes place in Atlanta, with stops at local hospitals (Northside, for one, though thankfully Piedmont was not mentioned) and the CDC.<\/p>\n

I think I’d like to check out the sequel, Darwin’s Children<\/i>, because the ending of this book left room for exploration of the consequences.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Darwin’s Radio by Greg Bear Thanks to galbinus_caeli for the loaner. An interesting hard-science-fiction piece concerning DNA and evolution (an extremely punctuated equilibrium brand of evolution, though not necessarily one you want to read if you’re expecting. Much of the … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[481,513],"tags":[83],"class_list":["post-583","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-book-log","category-books","tag-book-log-2006"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/583","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=583"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/583\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3464,"href":"https:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/583\/revisions\/3464"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=583"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=583"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journal.electric-rocket.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=583"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}