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Ring ring. You’re dead.

We were all there in that city that draws its paycheck from the manufacture of ghosts, itself made of ghosts: Los Angeles. We were there when one man started handing out free talk. And we are there now, sad little dolls made of dust...

Peter Russell lost a daughter to a serial killer. His marriage was the next casualty. Now he gets by as Mr Fixit for a film millionaire with a young wife on a big Hollywood estate infamous for its association with a historical scandal. The millionaire invests in a new kind of phone, the Trans. The problem with the Trans is that not only can you talk to your friends on it, you can also talk to the dead-though that wasn’t part of the design spec.

The Trans accesses forbidden channels. It has disrupted the exit routines of the recently dead to wherever they should have gone. At first, Russell is only haunted by his dead daughter. Now there are phantoms everywhere. Many are ghosts of the living, people with nothing inside them, called wraiths.

A cascade of transgression and murder is unleashed as sales of the Trans take off. Harried near to his death himself by his murdered child, Russell must find out who killed her and find a way to put an end to it all, if it kills him.

‘Darwin’s Children is a gripping evolutionary thriller that combines cutting-edge science with a compelling storyline. It’s a novel that stretches the envelope of a known science-which is exactly what science fiction should do.’ - Guardian

’Darwin’s Radio is a tense technothriller in the Michael Crichton vein...Intelligent science fiction on a colossal scale.’ - New Scientist

’Bear’s ability to tell a good story is surpassed only by his enthusiasm for the advancing edge of molecular biology... he might just be anticipating the next giant leap in our understanding of evolution and ourselves’. - Nature

Greg Bear was born in San Diego, California. His father was in the US Navy, and by the time he was twelve years old, Greg had lived in Japan, the Philippines, Alaska-where at the age of ten he completed his first short story-and various other parts of the US. He published his first science fiction story aged sixteen. His novels and stories have won prizes and been translated around the world.