With the potential for cloning already a reality, we all have to face some major ethical questions. Who has a right to determine a person's genetic makeup? And how will we treat our genetic underclass? In Pure, fifteen-year-old Lenni is...
Genetic engineering
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Auteur:Smith, CheritaSommaire:Snow White meets genetic engineering in this captivating novelette that blends science fiction and fairy tale— you'll be hooked from the very first line.Like most engineered kids, Amara can't wait to turn sixteen. Sixteen means...
- Auteur:Feehan, ChristineSommaire:
When radical terrorists take hostages in Indonesia, Captain Ezekiel Fortunes is called to lead the rescue team. Part of a classified government experiment, Zeke is a super soldier with enhanced abilities. He can see better, run faster,...
- Auteur:Grant, MiraSommaire:
From New York Times bestselling author Mira Grant comes a high-concept near-future thriller. A decade in the future, humanity thrives in the absence of sickness and disease. We owe our good health to a humble parasite—a genetically...
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Auteur:Patterson, JamesSommaire: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...
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Auteur:Eldridge, J. J.Sommaire:Self-Sacrifice to Save the Planet. The year is 2065. Following a freak encounter with a mysterious woman, Brian, a bored and frustrated dentist in the midst of a personal crisis, finds himself in the position to expose a conspiracy to...
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Auteur:Petrucha, StefanSommaire:Hey hey, book lovers, take off those big thick glasses-this is Deadpool speaking! Sorry Marvel, somethin' happened to your copy guy. Anyway, this is my first prose novel, and they got this dude Stefan Petrucha to write it. He's good...
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Auteur:Atwood, MargaretSommaire:Months after the Waterless Flood pandemic has wiped out most of humanity, Toby and Ren have rescued their friend Amanda from the vicious Painballers. They return to the MaddAddamite cob house, which is being fortified against man and...
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Auteur:CRICHTON, MichaelSommaire:Two paleontologists are invited for the weekend to `Jurassic Park', a theme park where scientists have managed to clone dinosaurs from prehistoric DNA. A power failure allows the monsters to escape and havoc ensues. The book that...
- Auteur:Gourgey, BillSommaire:
In Glide, The Prophet's Revenge, genius inventor Dr. Magigate (the Captain) must confront his shadowy legacy when innocent teen Maddy Langsley is kidnapped by an evil villain. Thus begins the Glide Trilogy set in a future world...
- Auteur:Gourgey, BillSommaire:
In Gene.sys, Magigate Returns, the final book of the award-winning Glide trilogy, genius inventor Captain Magigate returns from the past only to find the world he left in the clutches of a deadly plague. But the contagion's creator Dr....
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Auteur:DeStefano, LaurenSommaire: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...
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Auteur:Sargent, PamelaSommaire:More than twenty years have passed since Ship left the seed of mankind on an uninhabited planet. They started settlements and had children of their own, but as conflict arises once more, it threatens to engulf the children on either...
- Auteur:Card, Orson ScottSommaire:
In order to develop a secure defense against a hostile alien race's next attack, government agencies breed child geniuses and train them as soldiers. A brilliant young boy, Andrew "Ender" Wiggin lives with his kind but distant parents,...
- Auteur:Patterson, JamesSommaire:
For Hawk, being a hero weighs heavily on her wings. In the City of the Dead, life happens in the shadows. That's why a war is brewing against an enemy no one can see. Hawk and Maximum Ride never back down from a conflict, or from...
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Auteur:Grant, MiraSommaire:The outbreak has spread, and the implanted tapeworms have turned their human hosts into a mindless mob. Sal and her family must find a way to compromise between the two sides of their nature before the battle becomes large enough to...
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Auteur:Zehr, E. PaulSommaire:Could we create a real-life superhero by changing human biology itself?
The form and function of the human body, once entirely delimited by nature, are now fluid concepts thanks to recent advances in biomedical science...
- Auteur:Huxley, AldousSommaire:
Far in the future, the World Controllers have created the ideal society. Through clever use of genetic engineering, brainwashing and recreational sex and drugs all its members are happy consumers. Bernard Marx seems alone harbouring an...
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Auteur:VanderMeer, JeffSommaire:In a ruined city, Rachel, a scavenger, finds a small creature named "Borne" tangled in the fur of Mord, a gigantic bear made by a biotech firm. She knows her lover, Wick, is keeping secrets about working there, so she searches...
- Auteur:Wohlsen, MarcusSommaire:
Marcus Wohlsen chronicles biohacking DIY scientists working to solve the world's biggest problems with DNA. Wohlsen also explores risks of DIY bioterrorism, genetic experiments gone awry, and if designing life from scratch on a...
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