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61) Invasive
Author
Pub. Date
[2016]
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
On the isolated Kolohe Atoll in the middle of the Pacific ocean, a charismatic billionaire employs a team of scientists to conduct cutting-edge research that he hopes will change the world. In a cabin on a remote lake in the Adirondacks, FBI futurist Hannah Stander finds a barely recognizable human body, which appears to have been skinned alive by thousands of genetically engineered ants. Hannah's investigation leads to Kolohe, where the scientists...
Author
Series
Thrilled to Death volume 1
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
When man plays god, evil follows in these three sci-fi fantasy thrillers by the international bestselling author whose "pacing is nonstop" ( Publishers Weekly , on Hunter ). Hunter Scientists have accidentally tapped into the deepest recesses of the human mind -- and unleash a terrifying force. Now, with an infected creature is loose in the Alaskan wilderness, the America military asks expert tracker Nathaniel Hunter to locate the beast before it...
Author
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
In a future without limits, humans can manipulate their genetic structure with animal DNA to become whatever they wish to be. Fast, strong, beautiful ... or deadly. The only force able to stand against these modified humans is the Agency, where brutal government enforcers are raised from childhood to protect the peace by any means necessary. For Liane, the Agency is the only home she's ever known. Alongside her Handler, Damian, she fights against...
Author
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
** PREVIOUSLY PUBLISHED - This is an anthology edition of the Kinsmen Universe, which includes SILENT BLADE, SILVER SHARK, plus a new short story, and three original illustrations. ** Family is everything. Talent is power. And revenge is sweet. In a distant, future world Kinsmen-small powerful groups of genetically and technologically advanced families-control vast financial empires. They are their own country, their own rulers, and their only limits...
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English
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"At the turn of the twenty-second century, scientists make a breakthrough in human spaceflight. Through a revolutionary method known as somaforming, astronauts can survive in hostile environments off Earth using synthetic biological supplementations. They can produce antifreeze in subzero temperatures, absorb radiation and convert it for food, and conveniently adjust to the pull of different gravitational forces. With the fragility of the body no...
66) Reborn
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Racing against remnants of the Branch, genetically altered teenager Nick follows his scattered memories to find a mysterious girl who has been haunting his dreams.
67) Runaway heart
Author
Pub. Date
2003.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
What would modern war be like if the front-line foot soldiers were not our sons and daughters, but genetically engineered animals with superhuman strength and speed, and just enough intelligence to understand commands and follow them blindly?
This is exactly the weapon being-developed at a base in the desert by a top-secret government agency.
Attorney Herman Strockmire, a rumpled man with a very big but defective heart, champion of lost legal causes...
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Language
English
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Description
From the bestselling author of Mexican Gothic and Velvet Was the Night comes a dreamy reimagining of The Island of Doctor Moreau set against the backdrop of nineteenth-century Mexico. Carlota Moreau: A young woman growing up on a distant and luxuriant estate, safe from the conflict and strife of the Yucatán peninsula. The only daughter of a researcher who is either a genius or a madman. Montgomery Laughton: A melancholic overseer with a tragic past...
69) Erased
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Series
Language
English
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Description
"Seventeen-year-old Anna searches for answers about her past while she evades the Branch with genetically altered boys Sam, Cas, and Nick"--
70) Splintered
Author
Series
Spliced volume 2
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Seventeen-year-old Jimi Corcoran continues her fight for survival and equality in a near-future world where teenagers have animal DNA spliced into their own"--
72) Seveneves
Author
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
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Description
Five thousand years later after a catastrophic event rendered the Earth a ticking time bomb, the progeny of a handful of outer space explorers--seven distinct races now three billion strong--embark on yet another audacious journey: to return to Earth.
73) Perfect Gravity
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
Raw. Smart. Quick-witted. Mouthwatering. Just a few adjectives that describe this exquisite tale. Do not let this unforgettable story, or its incredible cast of characters, slip by you. DARYNDA JONES, New York Times bestselling author Second in a snarky, sexy sci-fi romance series with the perfect balance of humor, heart, and heat. When someone tries to kill powerful continental senator Angela Neko, Texan outlaw and old flame Kellen Hockley is the...
74) Splice
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Formats
Description
Two young scientists become superstars by splicing different animal DNA to create fantastical new creatures. Ignoring legal and ethical boundaries, the scientists, who are romantically involved, introduce human DNA into their experiment and risk the dawn of a terrifying new era.
75) Altered
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
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Description
Seventeen-year-old Anna finds herself on the run from her father's enigmatic Agency, along with the four teen boys the Agency had been experimenting on, as they try to make sense of erased memories, secret identities, and genetic alteration.
76) Behemoth
Author
Series
Leviathan trilogy volume 2
Language
English
Formats
Description
Continues the story of Austrian Prince Alek who, in an alternate 1914 Europe, eludes the Germans by traveling in the Leviathan to Constantinople, where he faces a whole new kind of genetically-engineered warships.
77) Necrotech
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
K. C. Alexander begins their SINless duology with a novel hailed by New York Times bestselling author Chuck Wendig as "sci-fi that's slick, sharp and snarky…"
A filthy city, overpopulated and underregulated, with even less mercy than a rusted pipe to the eye.
For the saints that run it, it's called home.
Anybody with the right cred can score an upgrade, it's just a matter of who, what and how much. Good tech, bad tech, big tech, micro tech,...
78) Buying Time
Author
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
The Nebula Award-winning author of The Forever War explores a world where time is money--and for some, both are running out ... The Stileman Process is a medical miracle: Every ten years or so, you can restore youth and health to your aging, ailing body--as long as you can pay the enormous fee. The scientific advancement has altered the twenty-first-century world even more than space travel. Dallas Barr is one of the oldest men on Earth, and now he...
Author
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"IT HAS BEEN SEVENTEEN YEARS since the Nine Veils abducted half of the Nenets children and their bonded Huahuqui from Antarctica. Despite years of searching by Jonathan Teller and the NSA, no one has heard from the clandestine organization, or the abductees. KJ Nilsson, the remaining children, and their Huahuqui-collectively known as the Stratum-have grown up in relative safety at Alpha Base in Antarctica. Thanks to the work of Lucy Taylor, now President...
80) Six wakes
Author
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
"A space adventure set on a lone ship where the clones of a murdered crew must find their murderer -- before they kill again. It was not common to awaken in a cloning vat streaked with drying blood. At least, Maria Arena had never experienced it. She had no memory of how she died. That was also new; before, when she had awakened as a new clone, her first memory was of how she died. Maria's vat was in the front of six vats, each one holding the clone...
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