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Darwin's Paradox
18/07/2008 . Source: Jessica Martin 
Here's a novel by author Nina Munteanu. It's about a world on the brink of violent change… when an intelligent virus and an intelligent machine community conspire to threaten the world with destruction and chaos; the only person who can save humanity is the woman who caused the cataclysm in the first place.
Buy Darwin's Paradox in the USA - or Buy Darwin's Paradox in the UK  In today's multiplex world of rapid planetary change, the lines between biology and technology are swiftly blurring in wondrous and equally terrifying ways. We are witnessing an increase in studies that link a growing infertility in humans to industrial activities and urban lifestyles. Yet, those of us who are born today can expect to live with enhanced intelligence, longevity, and health thanks to technological advances such as neuromorphic-engineered implants, nano-A.I. medicine and other biotechnological advances.
Co-evolving with our exploitation of the world's ecology is the spread of emergent and resistant diseases. Futurist Michio Kaku suggests that because of the rampant use of antibiotics "our own bodies have become a Darwinian battleground where only the nastiest mutant strains of bacteria thrive."
Yet, Doctor Lynn Margulis proved the notion that cellular evolution of virus and host cell may evolve through cooperation, often into a single symbiotic entity (e.g., evolution of eukaryotic cell).
Virologist Frank Ryan states, "Every monkey, baboon, chimpanzee and gorilla is carrying at least ten different species of symbiotic virus." And, while Lynn Margulis argues that a virus is intelligent, Transhumanist Ray Kurzweil predicts the inevitability of self-aware sentient robots.
In her book, Darwin's Paradox (Dragon Moon Press) ecologist, educator and acclaimed author Nina Munteanu explores the prospect of an intelligent self-organized virus joined with a self-aware A.I. in a world preoccupied with issues of infertility and the residual effects of an industrial plague.
Driven by an ambitious virus stirring inside her, Julie Crane sets out on a quest to save her family from the clutches of a terrified government. Instead she's abruptly caught in a web of intrigue...one that will betray her identity as Darwin's Paradox and define the evolution of humankind.
Darwin's Paradox is Nina's third novel. Her previous fiction was nominated for the Gaylactic Spectrum Award, Ecataromance Reviewers' Choice Award, the Aurora Prix, and the Foundation of Speculative Literature's Fountain Award.
Nina holds a Masters Degree in Ecology from Concordia University (Montreal) and has taught university courses at Simon Fraser University, Douglas College and the University of Victoria. She has published over fifty scientific papers, technical reports and guides, including a controversial paper on creative destruction, which uses chaos theory to explore nature's intelligence. Nina conducts research in risk analysis, pollution abatement and environmental protection as senior scientist with an environmental consulting firm in Vancouver, B.C.
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