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by Greg Bear (Author) "The last time I talked to Rob, I was checking my luggage at Lindbergh Field to fly to Seattle and meet with an angel..." (more)
Key Phrases: pressure sphere, Sea Messenger, New York, Betty Shun (more...)
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Reading Vitals, Greg Bear's dark, suspenseful, paranoid thriller of high-tech bioterrorism, would be terrifying even without real-world anthrax attacks. But the news stories of late 2001 add layers of resonance to the book.

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