After modern science turns every human into a genetic time bomb with men dying at age twenty-five and women dying at age twenty, girls are kidnapped and married off in order to repopulate the world.
Genetic engineering
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Author:DeStefano, LaurenSummary: -
Author:Wilhelm, KateSummary:When the first warm breeze of Doomsday came wafting over the Shenandoah Valley, the Sumners were ready. Using their enormous wealth, the family had forged an isolated post-holocaust citadel. Their descendants would have everything they...
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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - "If Michael Crichton had written a superhero novel, it would look a lot like Upgrade ."- The New York Times Book Review "You don't so much sympathize with the main character as live inside his skin."-DIANA...
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At the turn of the twenty-second century, astronauts can survive in hostile environments off Earth using synthetic biological supplementations. A team of these explorers, Ariadne O'Neill and her three crewmates, are hard at work in...
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In the near future, superheroes are very real. But so are supervillains. When San Francisco is toasted during a superbeing clash, America has had enough. All metanormals must leave the country--or face extermination at the hands of an...
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When Laura Godfrey decides to have her dead husband's child, she sees it a God's way of giving her what they were both cheated out of when her husband died. She's willing to use every tool of modern genetic science to assure that the...
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Frannie O'Neill's life was turned upside down when six children blew in on the wind, and rescuing them from the school that created them took all her courage. Now the young flock wants to go back to the couple it regards as...
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***Shortlisted for the 2015 Mumsnet and Janklow & Nesbit novel award***ARE YOU WHO THEY SAY YOU ARE? London, 2052. There’s an ID tag embedded in the flesh of your neck. Your every move is tracked. Your genes tell the State nearly...
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Author:Patterson, JamesSummary: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-...
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Author:Fitzhugh, BillSummary:All Bob Dillon ever wanted was a truck with a big fiberglass bug on the roof. All he had to do was survive a half dozen assassination attempts, pull a 10 million dollar con on a Bolivian drug lord, and then fall off the face of the...
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Shortlisted for the 2021 International Booker Prize, The Employees reshuffles a sci-fi voyage into a riotously original existential nightmare. Funny and doom-drenched, The Employees chronicles the fate of the Six-Thousand Ship. The...
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Author:Blakemore, Megan FrazerSummary:Mori and her friends Julia, Benji, and Theo have never seen life beyond the walls of their perfect society, Old Harmonie. That changes when their new friend Ilana is threatened by the rules that are supposed to keep them all safe. They...
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Author:Stanton, SteveSummary:Zakariah Davis and his wife Mia are among those infected with an alien virus that vastly prolongs life, and their blood has become a black-market staple due to its rejuvenating effects. Their teenage son Rix does not carry the Eternal...
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Author:Stanton, SteveSummary:In a post-cyberpunk future, where global economic activity is carried out in a virtual-gaming realm, a new blood-transmitted virus has become a black-market staple due to its temporary rejuvenating effects, forcing infected 'Eternals'...
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In a world built for Perfect Pets, Barnabus is a Failed Project, half mouse, half elephant, kept out of sight until his dreams of freedom lead him and his misfit friends on a perilous adventure. A stunning picture book from...
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In 2039, when people die owing money, the government turns them into mindless servants. Shades. These undead workers toil until their debts are settled. Without complaint, they pave roads, till fields, and build moon settlements for the...
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Author:DeStefano, LaurenSummary:After modern science turns every human into a genetic time bomb with men dying at age twenty-five and women dying at age twenty, teenaged Rhine finds hope for a brighter future from a surprising source.
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Author:Patterson, JamesSummary:After a short stay with an FBI agent who gives them a chance to attend school and live a normal life, the six genetically-altered, winged youths head toward Florida and Max's ultimate destiny--to save the world, whether she wants to or...
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Author:Patterson, JamesSummary:The time has come for Max,Fang, Iggy, Nudge, Gasman, and Angel to face their ultimate enemy and, despite many obstacles, try to save the world from a sinister plan to re-engineer a select population into a scientifically superior master...
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Author:Stanton, SteveSummary:The thrilling conclusion of the Bloodlight Chronicles trilogy. Set in a world where global economic activity is carried out in a virtual-gaming realm, a blood-transmitted virus with rejuvenating effects has become a black-...
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