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作者:GregBear
出版时间:2000-07-05
书籍简介:
A 2000 HUGO AWARD NOMINEE
Ancient diseases encoded in the DNA of humans wait like sleeping dragons to wake and infect again–or so molecular biologist Kaye Lang believes. And now it looks as if her controversial theory is in fact chilling reality. For Christopher Dicken, a "virus hunter" at the Epidemic Intelligence Service, has pursued an elusive flu-like disease that strikes down expectant mothers and their offspring. Then a major discovery high in the Alps –the preserved bodies of a prehistoric family–reveals a shocking link: something that has slept in our genes for millions of years is waking up.
Now, as the outbreak of this terrifying disease threatens to become a deadly epidemic, Dicken and Lang must race against time to assemble the pieces of a puzzle only they are equipped to solve–an evolutionary puzzle that will determine the future of the human race . . . if a future exists at all.
作者简介:
格里格·拜尔是当今美国最著名的科幻作家之一。他从16岁的时候开始发表科幻小说。1983年发表的短中篇小说《血的音乐》（Blood Music）获得当年的星云奖及1984的雨果奖并使他赢得世界性的声誉。他同年所发表的《艰苦战斗》（Hard fought）也获得当年的长中篇小说星云奖。他的短篇小说《切线》（Tangents）获得1987年的星云奖及1988年的雨果奖。他的长篇小说《移动火星》（Moving Mars）获得1994年的星云奖。他的其它著名长篇小说包括《天使女王》（Queen of Angels）以及“永世三部曲”《永世》（Eon），《永恒》（Etemity）。
