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"This book explains genetic theory, what genes are, why DNA plays an important role and what all these insights have to do with a curious monk. An exciting journey through the history of science, present-day genetic research and engineering and right through to the question of identity--because who would have thought how much of our personality is defined by our genes and how interesting genes can be?"--
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Moscow has resurrected the mammoth. But someone must teach them how to be mammoths, or they are doomed to die out again.
Dr. Damira Khismatullina, an expert in elephant behavior, was brutally murdered trying to defend the world's last elephants from the brutal ivory trade. Now, her digitized consciousness has been downloaded into the mind of a mammoth.
As the herd's new matriarch, can Damira help fend off poachers long enough for the species to...
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"A wonderful alternative-history thriller [that] deftly weaves together influences like Phillip K. Dick and Raymond Chandler." -Mike Stackpole, New York Times–bestselling author of I, Jedi
My name is Noel Glass. I once was a respected scientist and madly in love. All that ended with a deadly experiment that cost me the life of my fiancée.
It's 1953 and I'm a detective working the streets of Industry City. I don't rely on instinct; science...
4) Carcer
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Years after Hidden City, not everyone is convinced that peace is possible. Battles in space are still common and people struggle to work through their differences. To prevent the strained peace treaties from falling apart, a new planet for prisoners is terraformed. While the planet is being prepared, all the prisoners are placed on a continent anxiously awaiting their fate where dangerous animals can tear through the prison's defenses.Calix became...
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Lieutenant Bill Davis finally retired from the fire rescue services. He had the necessary time on the job, but really considered himself too young to retire. Unfortunately, his body was telling him otherwise. Not long after, he felt the changes begin. They were minor at first but progressed to more and more obvious signs of a progressive (and massive) change. He and his wife became worried, and when they sought medical help, they were surprised by...
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Some scientific experiments, such as Einstein's Gedankenexperiment, cannot be carried out in the real world, others like the one in this story, should not be carried out in the real world. A flawed set of scientific experiments performed in 2024 causes a breakdown in the barrier between humans and a neighboring species. These experiments rely on the Nobel Prize winning molecular biology technique known as CRISPR, surgical intervention, and the use...
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In this urban fantasy, a sword-wielding female blacksmith goes up against mythical and supernatural creatures in epic, action-filled battles.
When a rash of suicides strikes Bellingham, Washington, Sarah Beauhall finds herself embroiled in a conspiracy that involves long-dead gods, love-scorned ancients, dragons, witch feuds, and the rediscovery of a mysterious abandoned world.
Can Sarah put together the puzzle pieces before her world comes...
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"La vida de George" se sitúa temporalmente en la Cataluña del año 2121, y en una época en la que la ciencia y la tecnología han evolucionado de forma acelerada, hasta el punto de que los viajes a la Luna y a Marte se han convertido en algo habitual, así como la fabricación artificial de seres vivos, incluyendo seres humanos sintéticos.George es uno de estos humanos sintéticos, salido hace tres años de la empresa "Human Biofactory". Pese...
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What if the plague of violent crime could be eradicated fron the earth forever?
What if the cure was more lethal than the disease?
The death penalty is no deterrent. Prison reform has proven useless. With violent crime on a steady rise, a powerful cabal of scientists, politicians, and law-enforcement officials is looking to Project Conscience as a solution.
A criminal psychologist with the FBI, Luke Decker is disgusted by his superiors' decision...
10) Threshold
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All-around gold-metal-winning Olympic athlete, world-class pilot, race driver, and hugely successful financial genius, Peter Cory had every reason to be content with life and satisfied with himself. He didn't know, however, that he was the product of a 9000-year-long alien breeding program, that the challenge for which they had bred him was now impending, and that all the special qualities they had instilled into his DNA were about to face their ultimate...
11) The Compound
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A group of people wake up in a secret government compound where they are being lab experiments for whatever insane tests the government throws at them until the government suddenly orders the compound be destroyed and everyone inside killed. Prelude to the Prototype series.
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Paralyzed EmotionsI'm trapped – a slave to a ruthless doctor, but I don't know how or why, and that's a hell I desperately want to escape.Lie after lie. Day after day.Something sadistic is taking place within the confines of Bellevue Psychiatric Hospital.I must uncover the truth, but I'll need help.Kai Hastings, a former employee of the hospital, is eager to rebel, but doing so could cost him his life… and mine, too.Can we expose the truth about...
13) Steelheart
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An android named Harley Doon finds himself caught in a battle between human and alien. It's not his fight, but somebody has to save the world. Years ago, when humans and androids crash landed onto the planet Zuul, whatever remained of their society quickly succumbed to the ravages of earthquakes and a never-ending winter from volcanic dust clouds. As humans and machines scavenged to stay alive, they also faced the Zid, an alien race that abhors all...
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Named Top 10 "Best Lit Mags of 2023" by Chill Subs Delight in intriguing, thought-provoking conversations about ethics, philosophy, and social issues! After Dinner Conversation is a monthly literary magazine publishing short fiction. Each issue features both established writers and up-and-coming authors who contribute fascinating philosophical insights on controversial topics like marriage equality, assisted suicide, the meaning of death, animal rights...
15) Braided Silk
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Rapunzel was made with technologically advanced hair. As a trained Mother agent, Zel can't escape the DNA that makes her a pawn in corporate espionage. Kidnapped and held in a tower on Gothel Island, she falls to the sexual allure of her captor's son, Langley, a man whose every tantalizing touch makes her forget she wasn't born human.
Langley Gothel protests the existence of creations such as Zel, but when faced with losing her, he sees the truth:...
16) Savage Lands
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In a post apocalyptic world, Rovdyren have been hunted to near extinction. The Alpha has incited fear in all hearts – human and beast alike. His bite can heal, but as of late destruction is all he's been about. They say he's gone to the darkest parts of himself. Savage to the extreme. On the hunt for what doesn't exist – a mate. Losing his mind in the process. Kenley and her older brother, Sawyer, are part of a small pack of eight. They know that...
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In Dr. Faulkner's new world, all citizens are devoid of emotion-all except for two deviants.AnnaAnna Chaplin harbors a secret-one that could place her in grave danger.Trapped in a world where emotions no longer exist… or that's what was supposed to happen. Somehow, she is spared from this brutality, but that doesn't render her free from danger. In fact, it makes her a target.Desperate to escape this nightmare, she works feverishly to develop an...
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I'm trapped – a slave to a ruthless doctor, but I don't know how or why, and that's a hell I desperately want to escape.Lie after lie. Day after day.Something sadistic is taking place within the confines of Bellevue Psychiatric Hospital.I must uncover the truth, but I'll need help.Kai Hastings, a former employee of the hospital, is eager to rebel, but doing so could cost him his life… and mine, too.Can we expose the truth about what goes on behind...
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Overwhelming Beauty! Helen Winship moved to New York to pursue her studies in biology. John Burke, her fiancé, arrives in the Big Apple to find she has transformed into the most beautiful woman in the world thanks to an experimental microbial treatment given to her by her professor. The treatment is successful beyond everyone's wildest dreams, catapulting Helen into high society as every man wishes to be near her. Will her outlook on life be changed?...
20) Apollo
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Apollo is having nothing but difficulties securing his mate. They go on a raid where they have a long march to a secluded facility and she gets ill. He is afraid she won't recover. He knows he can't live without her.Waverly fights the chemistry between her and Apollo with all she has. She loved and lost once and she can't do it again. But does she have a choice?
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