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Author
Series
Caitlyn Brown volume 2
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
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Description
In a future world where the fundamentalist government distorts true Christianity, a winged girl named Caitlyn escapes to the Outside but soon finds herself on the run again from an organization seeking her body's genetic information
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Series
Language
English
Description
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • From the author of Timeline, Sphere, and Congo, this is the classic thriller of science run amok that took the world by storm.
Nominated as one of America’s best-loved novels by PBS’s The Great American Read
“[Michael] Crichton’s dinosaurs are genuinely frightening.”—Chicago Sun-Times
An...
Nominated as one of America’s best-loved novels by PBS’s The Great American Read
“[Michael] Crichton’s dinosaurs are genuinely frightening.”—Chicago Sun-Times
An...
43) This mortal coil
Author
Series
Mortal coil series volume 1
Language
English
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Description
"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"--
44) Adaptation
Author
Series
Adaptation (Malinda Lo) volume 1
Language
English
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Description
In the aftermath of a series of plane crashes caused by birds, seventeen-year-old Reese and her debate-team partner, David, receive medical treatment at a secret government facility and become tangled in a conspiracy that is, according to Reese's friend, Julian, connected with aliens and UFOs
45) Megan's mark
Author
Series
Breeds volume 7
Pub. Date
2006
Language
English
Formats
Description
In a world where genetically altered Breeds and humans coexist, sheriff's deputy Megan Fields, gifted with the ability to feel other peoples' emotions, must team up with sensual Braden Arness, a Feline Breed, to investigate a series of mysterious murders.
46) Mercury's war
Author
Series
Breeds volume 16
Publisher
Berkley
Pub. Date
2008
Physical Desc
341 p. ; 18 cm
Language
English
Description
Someone has been slipping the Sanctuary's secure information to a pharmaceutical company. Now it's up to Ria Rodriguez to uncover the leak. Yet she has no idea of the danger she's about to encounter--or the passion she will ignite in one of the greatest Breeds ever created.
Author
Series
Genetic thriller volume 2
Publisher
Warner Books
Pub. Date
2002
Physical Desc
xii, 572 p. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
When Veronica Tremain's brother is brutally murdered, both she and the FBI try to make sense of a bizarre conspiracy that seems to be targeting genetics professors -- and one unusual child
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Series
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English
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Description
In a futuristic U.S. a conflict breaks out between the two classes of society: people who live on welfare, the so-called livers, and a gene-modified elite, handsome and intellectually superior who do all the work, the so-called donkeys. By the author of Beggars in Spain.
50) The Firefly code
Author
Series
Firefly code volume 1
Language
English
Description
Mori and her friends live a normal life on Firefly Lane in Old Harmonie, a utopian community where every kid knows he or she is genetically engineered to be better and smarter, but when a strangely perfect new girl named Ilana moves in, the friends begin to question the only world they have ever known.
51) Ten Low
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Language
English
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Description
At the edge of the universe, ex-medic and ex-con Ten Low rescues a teenage girl from a crashed spacecraft, and finding that she's a genetically-engineered super soldier who was targeted for assassination, sets out with her on a dangerous mission to cross the lawless alien moon.
52) Orfeo: a novel
Author
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Composer Peter Els --the "Bioterrorist Bach" -- pays a final visit to the people he loves, those who shaped his musical journey and, through the help of his ex-wife, his daughter, and his longtime collaborator, he hatches a plan to turn his disastrous collision with Homeland Security into a work of art that will reawaken its audience to the sounds all around them
53) Goliath
Author
Series
Leviathan trilogy volume 3
Language
English
Formats
Description
Alek and Deryn encounter obstacles on the last leg of their round-the-world quest to end World War I, reclaim Alek's throne as prince of Austria, and finally fall in love
54) Parasite
Author
Series
Parasitology volume 1
Publisher
Orbit
Pub. Date
2013.
Physical Desc
504 pages ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
Genetically engineered tapeworms that protect most of the human populace from illness, boost everyone's immune system, and even secrete designer drugs begin to change and want out of human bodies they occupy
55) Falling free
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Series
Language
English
Description
When engineer Leo Graf arrives at a free fall station circling a mining planet to teach welding, he's in for his first shock: the genetically engineered inhabitants have an extra set of arms in place of legs. A second shock comes when the company that owns these four-armed "quaddies" decides to abandon them, and Leo must use all his ingenuity to respond to this new crisis. Winner of the Nebula Award for Best Novel, and a Hugo Award finalist.
56) Chimera
Author
Series
Parasitology volume 3
Language
English
Formats
Description
The outbreak has spread, tearing apart the foundations of society, as implanted tapeworms have turned their human hosts into a seemingly mindless mob. Sal and her family are trapped between bad and worse, and must find a way to compromise between the two sides of their nature before the battle becomes large enough to destroy humanity, and everything that humanity has built...including the chimera.
58) Upgrade: a novel
Author
Language
English
Description
"An ordinary man undergoes a startling transformation--and fears that all of humanity may be next--in the mind blowing new thriller from the New York Times bestselling author of Dark Matter and Recursion . Logan Ramsay can feel his brain... changing. And his body too. He's becoming something other than himself. Maybe even something other than human. As he sets out to discover who did this to him, and why, his transformation threatens everything--his...
59) Fever
Author
Series
Chemical Garden trilogy volume 2
Language
English
Formats
Description
In a future where genetic engineering has cured humanity of all diseases and defects but has also produced a virus that kills all females by age twenty and all males by the age twenty-five, teenaged Rhine escapes her forced marriage and journeys back to New York to find her twin brother
60) 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
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