Talk:Blood Music (novel)

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This page needs some work. I'll get around to it, but in the meantime here's my TODO list for it:

gee, the text (which was originally submitted by a one-day-only anon user) sure reads like it came from another publication. I can't find a source, so I'm not claiming it as copyvio, but it doesn't read like an encyclopedia page, but rather like a brief book review. The viability, or otherwise, of the book's story shouldn't be the main part of the article. If the original author subsequently became a registed user, can you confirm the text is original?
it should be noted that the short story version won (apparently) both Hugo and Nebula awards.
that stuff about E-coli and its genome isn't correct. The book discusses the engineering of one of the scientist's own lymphocites, and as a human cell it has just as much genetic material as you or I. This zaps the argument about it not having the basepairs necessary to be smart (but there's plenty of complexity arguments still there)
a note should be made that the book's structure mirrors the major phases of Mitosis, a metaphor for the splitting off of the new lympho-creature civilisation from humanity
there's some stuff about the anthropic principle we should also link to (that business about the "burden of observation")
some reference should be made to Nanotechnology (in the drexler sense) and to (if we have it) the Grey Goo hypothesis.
also, if we have it, a link to The Spike (in the transhuman we're going to live forever as titanium rosebushes meaning of the word)

-- Finlay McWalter 17:39, 21 Oct 2003 (UTC)

I did most of these, except The Spike stuff (it's already sounding too much like a book report). -- Finlay McWalter 17:17, 24 Oct 2003 (UTC)

The "Parasites Lost" chapter of Futurama

The plot of this novel may have inspired this Futurama chapter: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parasites_Lost . —Preceding unsigned comment added by RobertCS (talk • contribs) 18:45, 20 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]