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Title: Starts off like a rocket. Finishes like a cannonball.
Review: Darwin's Radio is the great sci-fi/techno-thriller you always wanted to read -- up to about 2/3 into the book. The at first seemingly complex story is actually a well-tied together tight ball of story lines. Especially if you've kept up on virus-related science and fiction, this is no stretch of the imagination, rather an original innovation. And, where other fiction fails, namely believability of characters and their thoughts and actions, this book succeeds. However, sometimes great writers don't know when to stop -- as in, just end the book with a punch! It occurs to me now that, like Ender's Game, Darwin's Radio could have been two very good, but very different kinds of books. It's too late for that now, but you may want to consider that in your aproach to reading it -- avoid the dissapointment by lowering expectations a few notches.
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