Blood Music
- 272
- Pages
- about 5 h
- Reading time
- Tähtivaeltaja Award
- Prix Tour-Apollo Award
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Our view
“Blood Music” joins hard science to an old philosophical question, what it means to remain human, and keeps both in play. Some readers find the second half heavy going, the central idea underexplained and the characters hard to care about. Others describe a dark, tense book that keeps changing direction, and note that the style of Greg Bear’s novel, expanded from a shorter story, has hardly dated.
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About the book
Blood Music is a 1985 science fiction novel by American writer Greg Bear. It is an expanded version of a short story of the same title, originally published in the June 1983 issue of Analog and the winner of both the 1983 Nebula and 1984 Hugo awards for Best Novelette. The novel won the 1986 Prix Apollo Award, given to the best science fiction novel published in France during the preceding year, under the title La Musique du sang.
Where the score comes from
The sources average 7.8 across 161 ratings — not yet many, so the reader vote carries 52% of the weight and the rest pulls toward the Science fiction average of 7.8. That is how 7.8 comes out.
| Source | Average | Ratings | Weight |
|---|---|---|---|
| Open Library | 7.9 | 17 | 11% |
| Hardcover | 7.8 | 144 | 89% |
Frequently asked
How long is Blood Music?
It has 272 pages — shorter than 83% of the ranked books in Science fiction.
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