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Blood music

by Greg Bear

When a researcher injects himself with his own banned biological creation to save it, he unwittingly unleashes a rapidly evolving cellular intelligence that begins to reorganise and transform humanity.

Accession 33555 ISBN — Publisher Arbor House
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