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A startling, emotional, beautiful (and at times funny) book - one that feels like the best sort of science fiction, a book that should be enjoyed widely, a book that speaks of what it is to be human, a parent, and a child. It is 500 years in the future and Earth is no longer populated by humans. The new guardians of Earth, the genetically engineered Erta, have reversed climate change. They are now faced with a dilemma; if they reintroduce the rebellious...
8) Ten Low
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Ten Low is an ex-army medic, one of many convicts eking out a living at the universe's edge, desperate to escape memories of the interstellar war. She pulls a teenage girl from the wreck of a spaceship, but Gabriella Ortiz is a genetically engineered super soldier, and a decorated General-- from the opposing side. The crash was an assassination attempt, and the pair must get the General off-world. But something else waits in the darkness at the universe's...
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This is it: one last incredible, explosive Maximum Ride adventure with an astonishing ending no one could have seen coming. Maximum Ride and her faithful friends stand ready to face the two greatest threats that humankind has ever known, now combining forces in an unbeatable plot to destroy life as we know it once and for all. And this time, the enemy truly can't be stopped. The danger mounts just as Dylan has worked his way into...
11) Dawn
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All of humanity must share the world with uncanny, unimaginable alien creatures after war destroys Earth.
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While on a mission to Antarctica to save the world from global warming, fourteen-year-old Maximum Ride and the other members of the Flock--a band of genetically modified children who can fly--are pursued by their creator, the Uber-Director, who wants to auction them off to the highest bidder.
13) Altered
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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.
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Huxley's vision of the future comes to life in his astonishing 1931 novel Brave New World--a world of tomorrow in which capitalist civilization has been reconstituted through the most efficient scientific and psychological engineering--and its sequel, written thirty years after his classic novel of the future, in which Huxley describes the shocking scientific devices and techniques available to any group in a position to manipulate society.
15) This mortal coil
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"In a world where people are implanted with technology to recode their DNA, gene-hacking genius Cat must decrypt her late father's message concealing a vaccine to a horrifying plague"--
16) Splice
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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.
17) Shadow puppets
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After Ender Wiggin's triumph over the Formics, society has been altered by the destruction of unity between the nations, but Peter Wiggin, Ender's older brother, is determined to restore Earth's unity with the help of young warriors.
19) Leviathan
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On the dark and forbidding ocean floor, the crew of a deepsea mining rig discovers a sunken freighter that harbors a deadly secret: a genetic experiment gone horribly wrong.
20) Far cry
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Retired Special Forces officer Jack Carver is hired to escort star journalist Valerie Cardinal to a mysterious island for a story. Upon arrival they are attacked by mercenaries, and in their attempt to escape, they unleash genetically engineered beasts created by the mad scientist Dr. Kri eger.
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