Title: Vitals
Title Record # 22269
Author: Greg Bear
Date: 2002-01-02
Type: NOVEL
Webpages: Wikipedia-EN
Language: English
Current Tags: science fiction (2), first person point of view (1), twins (1), insanity (1), deepsea (1), longevity (1) Add Tags
Author: Greg Bear
Date: 2002-01-02
Type: NOVEL
Webpages: Wikipedia-EN
Language: English
Synopsis: From the flaps of the Del Rey first edition: "Hal Cousins is one of a handful of scientists nearing the most sought after discovery in human history: the key to short-circuiting the aging process. Fueled by a wealth of research, an overdose of self-confidence, and the money of influential patrons to whom he makes outrageous promises, Hal experiments with organisms living in the hot thermal plumes in the ocean depths. But as he journeys beneath the sea, his other world is falling apart.
Across the country, scientists are being inexplicably murdered - including Hal's identical twin brother, who is also working to unlock the key to immortality. Hal himself barely eludes a cold-blooded attack at sea, and when he returns home to Seattle, he finds himself walking into an eerie realm where voices speak to him from the dead ... where a once-brilliant historian turned crackpot is leading him on a deadly game of hide-and-seek ... and where the beautiful, rich widow of his twin is more than willing to pick up the pieces of Hal's life-and take him places he's never been before.
Suddenly Hal is trapped inside an ever-twisting maze of shocking revelations. For he is not the first person to come close to ending aging forever - and those who came before him will stop at nothing to keep the secret to themselves. Now every person on earth is at risk of being made an unsuspecting player in one man's spectacular and horrifying master plan.
From the bottom of Russia's Lake Baikal to a billionaire's bionic house built into the cliffs of the Washington seashore, from the darkest days of World War II and the reign of Josef Stalin to the capitalist free-for-all that is the United States, Vitals tells an astounding tale of the most unimaginable scientific secret of all - exposed by the quest for immortality itself..."
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Awards
Place | Year and Award | Category |
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16 | 2003 Locus | Best SF Novel |
Finalists | 2003 Campbell Memorial | Best Science Fiction Novel |
Publications
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Title | Date | Author/Editor | Publisher/Pub. Series | ISBN/Catalog ID | Price | Pages | Format | Type | Cover Artist | Verif |
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Vitals | 2002-01-00 | Greg Bear | Del Rey / Ballantine | 0-345-43528-1 | $24.95?$: US dollar |
356 | hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size. |
novel | Tony Greco | |
Vitals | 2002-01-00 | Greg Bear | Del Rey / Ballantine / SFBC | 14642 | $12.99?$: US dollar |
356 | hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size. |
novel | Tony Greco | |
Vitals | 2002-01-00 | Greg Bear | The Easton Press (Signed First Editions of Science Fiction #169) | 106-169 |
[10]+ 356 |
hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size. |
novel | |||
Vitals | 2002-01-02 | Greg Bear | Random House Audio | 0-553-71495-3 | audio cassette?Cassette tape |
novel | ||||
Vitals | 2002-03-00 | Greg Bear | HarperCollins (UK) | 0-00-712402-3 | £17.99?£: UK pound |
400 | hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size. |
novel | ||
Vitals | 2003-04-00 | Greg Bear | Ballantine Books | 0-345-42334-8 | $7.50?$: US dollar |
396 | pb?Paperback. Typically 7" by 4.25" (18 cm by 11 cm) or smaller, though trimming errors can cause them to sometimes be slightly (less than 1/4 extra inch) taller or wider/deeper. |
novel | Tony Greco | |
Vitals | 2003-09-00 | Greg Bear | HarperCollins (UK) | 0-00-712975-0 | £6.99?£: UK pound |
342 | pb?Paperback. Typically 7" by 4.25" (18 cm by 11 cm) or smaller, though trimming errors can cause them to sometimes be slightly (less than 1/4 extra inch) taller or wider/deeper. |
novel | ||
Vitals | 2005-12-00 | Greg Bear | Del Rey / Ballantine | 0-345-45545-2 | $7.99?$: US dollar |
ebook?Used for all electronic formats, including but not limited to EPUB, eReader, HTML, iBook, Mobipocket, and PDF. |
novel | |||
Vitals | 2009-07-01 | Greg Bear | HarperCollins (UK) | 978-0-00-733530-5 | £10.99?£: UK pound |
352 | tp?Trade paperback. Any softcover book which is at least 7.25" (or 19 cm) tall, or at least 4.5" (11.5 cm) wide/deep. |
novel | ||
Vitals | 2010-05-07 | Greg Bear | HarperCollins (UK) | 978-0-00-737924-8 | £10.99?£: UK pound |
352 | tp?Trade paperback. Any softcover book which is at least 7.25" (or 19 cm) tall, or at least 4.5" (11.5 cm) wide/deep. |
novel | ||
Vitals | 2010-07-08 | Greg Bear | HarperCollins (UK) | 978-0-00-732185-8 | £1.99?£: UK pound |
ebook?Used for all electronic formats, including but not limited to EPUB, eReader, HTML, iBook, Mobipocket, and PDF. |
novel | |||
Vitals | 2015-11-24 | Greg Bear | Open Road Integrated Media | 978-1-5040-2510-2 | $7.99?$: US dollar |
ebook?Used for all electronic formats, including but not limited to EPUB, eReader, HTML, iBook, Mobipocket, and PDF. |
novel |
Reviews
- Review by Gary K. Wolfe (2001) in Locus, #489 October 2001
- Review by Don D'Ammassa (2001) in Science Fiction Chronicle, #219 December 2001
- Review by Nick Gevers (2001) in Locus, #491 December 2001
- Review by John Grant (2002) in Interzone, #177 March 2002
- Review by John Clute (2002) in Interzone, #181 August 2002 , reprinted in:
- Scores: Reviews 1993 - 2003 (2003)
- Scores: Reviews 1993 - 2003 (2016)
- Review by Peter Heck (2002) in Asimov's Science Fiction, September 2002
- Review by Thomas A. Easton [as by Tom Easton] (2002) in Analog Science Fiction and Fact, October 2002
- Review by Lawrence Person (2002) in Nova Express, Summer 2002
- Review [German] by Regnier Le Dyckt (2004) in phantastisch!, #14
- Review [French] by Pascal J. Thomas (2004) in Galaxies, #35