Greg Bear

* #40 in the Millennium SF Masterworks series, a library of the finest science fiction ever written.

* Blood Music won the Nebula and Hugo Awards in its original shorter form.

* 'One of the few SF writers capable of following where Olaf Stapledon led, beyond the limits of human ambition and geological time' Locus

* 'Arthur C. Clarke has his most formidable rival yet' The Times