Originally published in the June 1983 issue of Analog and the winner of both the 1983 Nebula and 1984 Hugo awards for Best Novelette, Greg Bear’s classic story of biotechnology became one of the Science Fiction Book Club’s celebrated titles for their SFBC 50th Anniversary Collection.

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Greg Bear’s Blood Music is Number 32 of the 40 books in this series. Here’s a list of the books in this celebratory series. How many have you read?

SFBC 50th Collection

1		The Snow Queen by Joan D. Vinge  3.95 avg rating — 12,938 ratingsscore: 276, and 3 people voted
2		City (SFBC 50th Anniversary Collection, 5) by Clifford D. Simak  4.08 avg rating — 17,964 ratingsscore: 195, and 2 people voted
3		The Door into Summer by Robert A. Heinlein  4.02 avg rating — 27,261 ratingsscore: 191, and 2 people voted
4		The Space Merchants by Frederik Pohl  3.84 avg rating — 10,806 ratingsscore: 189, and 2 people voted
5		The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K. Le Guin  4.10 avg rating — 192,834 ratingsscore: 186, and 2 people voted
6		The End of Eternity by Isaac Asimov  4.24 avg rating — 58,068 ratingsscore: 183, and 2 people voted
7		The City and the Stars by Arthur C. Clarke  4.08 avg rating — 34,612 ratingsscore: 181, and 2 people voted
8		The Stars My Destination by Alfred Bester  4.06 avg rating — 52,543 ratingsscore: 181, and 2 people voted
9		The Forever War by Joe Haldeman  4.14 avg rating — 170,732 ratingsscore: 181, and 2 people voted
10		Wild Seed (Patternmaster, #1) by Octavia E. Butler  4.20 avg rating — 35,952 ratingsscore: 178, and 2 people voted
11		The Man in the High Castle by Philip K. Dick  3.60 avg rating — 219,292 ratingsscore: 177, and 2 people voted
12		Stand on Zanzibar by John Brunner  3.94 avg rating — 16,740 ratingsscore: 174, and 2 people voted
13		The Mote in God’s Eye by Larry Niven  4.07 avg rating — 70,930 ratingsscore: 174, and 2 people voted
14		The Dream Master by Roger Zelazny  3.59 avg rating — 2,981 ratingsscore: 171, and 2 people voted
15		Ender’s Game (Ender’s Saga, #1) by Orson Scott Card  4.31 avg rating — 1,404,831 ratingsscore: 171, and 2 people voted
16		Mythago Wood (Mythago Wood, #1) by Robert Holdstock  3.77 avg rating — 10,457 ratingsscore: 171, and 2 people voted
17		Rendezvous with Rama (Rama, #1) by Arthur C. Clarke  4.12 avg rating — 171,495 ratingsscore: 169, and 2 people voted
18		The Anubis Gates by Tim Powers  3.90 avg rating — 17,006 ratingsscore: 169, and 2 people voted
19		Gloriana by Michael Moorcock  3.64 avg rating — 2,278 ratingsscore: 167, and 2 people voted
20		A Canticle for Leibowitz by Walter M. Miller Jr.  3.98 avg rating — 112,317 ratingsscore: 166, and 2 people voted
21		Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch by Terry Pratchett  4.26 avg rating — 777,215 ratingsscore: 164, and 2 people voted
22		Startide Rising (The Uplift Saga, #2) by David Brin (Goodreads Author)  4.04 avg rating — 32,521 ratingsscore: 161, and 2 people voted
23		Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson (Goodreads Author)  4.02 avg rating — 285,717 ratingsscore: 149, and 2 people voted
24		Memory (Vorkosigan Saga, #10) by Lois McMaster Bujold (Goodreads Author)  4.43 avg rating — 19,009 ratingsscore: 146, and 2 people voted
25		Three Hearts and Three Lions by Poul Anderson  3.84 avg rating — 5,210 ratingsscore: 97, and 1 person voted
26		Under Pressure by Frank Herbert  3.54 avg rating — 1,841 ratingsscore: 95, and 1 person voted
27		To Your Scattered Bodies Go by Philip José Farmer  3.93 avg rating — 32,662 ratingsscore: 92, and 1 person voted
28		Norstrilia by Cordwainer Smith really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 2,735 ratingsscore: 91, and 1 person voted
29		Rite of Passage by Alexei Panshin  3.82 avg rating — 3,637 ratingsscore: 85, and 1 person voted
30		Her Smoke Rose Up Forever by James Tiptree Jr.  4.18 avg rating — 4,507 ratingsscore: 81, and 1 person voted
31		Deathbird Stories by Harlan Ellison  4.14 avg rating — 4,517 ratingsscore: 77, and 1 person voted
32		Blood Music by Greg Bear  3.84 avg rating — 15,564 ratingsscore: 74, and 1 person voted
33		Courtship Rite by Donald Kingsbury  3.95 avg rating — 574 ratingsscore: 72, and 1 person voted
34		Schismatrix Plus (Science Fiction Book Club 50th Anniversary Collection, Volume 31) by Bruce Sterling  3.93 avg rating — 4,921 ratingsscore: 70, and 1 person voted
35		Rats and Gargoyles (White Crow Sequence #1) by Mary Gentle  3.58 avg rating — 509 ratingsscore: 67, and 1 person voted
36		Only Begotten Daughter by James K. Morrow  3.88 avg rating — 1,803 ratingsscore: 65, and 1 person voted
37		Doomsday Book by Connie Willis  4.03 avg rating — 61,340 ratingsscore: 64, and 1 person voted
38		Steel Beach. (SFBC 50th Anniversary Collection) by John Varley  3.97 avg rating — 3,256 ratingsscore: 63, and 1 person voted
39		The Iron Dragon’s Daughter by Michael Swanwick  3.66 avg rating — 4,074 ratingsscore: 62, and 1 person voted
40		A Fire Upon the Deep by Vernor Vinge  4.14 avg rating — 63,010 ratingsscore: 61, and 1 person voted