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Basic Books
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2022.
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The thrilling and terrifying history of genetic engineering. In 2018, scientists manipulated the DNA of human babies for the first time. As biologist and historian Matthew Cobb shows in As Gods, this achievement was one many scientists have feared from the start of the genetic age. Four times in the last fifty years, geneticists, frightened by their own technology, have called a temporary halt to their experiments. They ought to be frightened: Now...
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In Soviet Union, genetic engineering does you.Yona wondered why everyone kept steering him toward a military career, until one of his teachers noticed his aptitude for genetics. Now he's the personal student of Academician Voronsky, working in a secret genetic engineering facility in a closed town.However, Yona keeps having to spend as much time babysitting the Academician's adopted son Kolya as actually doing genetics. When this extra assignment...
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Endings always hurt, but Vitali Grigorenko never expected a nightmare in orbit.Assigned to command the last flight of the orbiter Baikal, Vitali had started the mission in a nostalgic mood. That went out the airlock when he saw the body tumbling through space just beyond the flight deck windows. A body in NASA blue, not Russian tan.Now he's trying to get to the bottom of a murder in space, and his own country's space program as much a hindrance as...
5) Rubicon
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IT HAS BEEN SEVENTEEN YEARS since the Nine Veils abducted half of the Nenets children and their bonded Huahuqui from Antarctica. Despite years of searching by Jonathan Teller and the NSA, no one has heard from the clandestine organization, or the abductees.KJ Nilsson, the remaining children, and their Huahuqui-collectively known as the Stratum-have grown up in relative safety at Alpha Base in Antarctica. Thanks to the work of Lucy Taylor, now President...
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As Frank Correra brings his family to a lunar settlement to get them away from a worsening political situation on Earth, he reminisces about how he and his wife met. Frank had always dreamed of the skies. As a clone of an astronaut who subsequently became a US Senator, Frank thought he had a clear path ahead of him. But when it comes time to apply for the Air Force Academy, it is an election year. His ur-brother can't promise a nomination until he's...
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It only takes a spark to start a raging inferno. One sharply-worded post online, and now Reginald Waite has a flamewar on his hands. A welcome distraction from the frustrations of preparing for a technically demanding space mission -- or so he thought. The conflict just kept spiraling, until it attracted the attention fo higher-ups. Now Reggie's looking at serious trouble. A short story of the Grissom timeline, originally published at Liberty Island...
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Stacey didn't believe in wishes. Walking home one evening, she saw a bright star shining over the abandoned Starlite Motel and made a wish. Purely as a lark, of course -- she never expected anything to come of it. Now she's dealing with a man who claims to be from another world where history ran differently. He wants to go back home -- but Stacey has no idea how to go about it.
9) Generation Q
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Ever feel like you're different? Perhaps you even feel like you're special. Are you out to save the world? Is your secret mission in life to help others?Meet the children of Generation Q. At first they had to be hidden because others were hunting for them, trying to eliminate them, before their specialness infected the world. For then it would be too late to mold the world according to the ideals of those who hunted these infants.What will it take...
10) Rockin' the USA
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It's not easy being married to the leader of the band, even in the best fo times. When everything becomes political, you've got a nightmare Laurel had her doubts when her husband signed on to headline Governor Thorne's Independence Day concert in Candlestick Park. Now that the band is committed to the show, the Flannigan Administration has decided to shut them down, with prejudice. Laurel knows she has to fight this attempt to stop the signal. But...
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In the midst of preparations for a critical mission, Leland Andersen can't afford the return of a childhood nightmare. Yet night after night the vision torments him, of an astronaut dying in flames.Nora McKinzie is a Houston police officer -- and a member of an ancient order founded to fight eldritch entities wherever they might flee. When she receives a warning that a sworn enemy is on the move again, her obligations come into conflict with each...
12) Subject 37
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Five hundred years ago, they talked about "shit hitting the fan"... whatever that means. But I, Steven Burgard, have an idea of what it could have meant when I look at the world, I live in.
Nothing of what they said back then, in the books they had, was true. They didn't predict a world where 99% of the population was gone in a matter of years.
They didn't even know why it was happening to them. My world is broken, empty, full of mysteries...
14) Leviathan
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Leviathan trilogy volume 1
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In an alternate 1914 Europe, fifteen-year-old Austrian Prince Alek, on the run from the Clanker Powers who are attempting to take over the globe using mechanical machinery, forms an uneasy alliance with Deryn who, disguised as a boy to join the British Air Service, is learning to fly genetically-engineered beasts.
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"From the frozen tundra of Siberia to the cutting-edge genetics labs of Harvard University, a group of young scientists--under the guidance of Dr. George Church, the most brilliant geneticist of our time--is working to make the impossible happen. Their task? To bring the Woolly Mammoth, a creature that has been extinct for three thousand years, back into our world. How will they do it? By sequencing the DNA of a frozen Woolly Mammoth harvested from...
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