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301) The Amortals
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Douglas Best returns, this time taking over the investigation into the mysterious Juno. He and his wife Carolyn are drawn into the political back-dealing of the Compact. They get an unexpected ally in Jayne, a high cleric of the Marilynist Temple. As people begin to die around them, they uncover something far worse than a company using a war for profit: A battle for control of human evolution itself.
302) Asylum
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A misanthropic scientist by the name of Dr. Ethan Barrett is straying into uncharted territory of the human brain. His drastic measures will take him to the brink of death. Compelled by his theory he traverses the limits of morality to uncover more about the human condition. A threat emerges along the way which he must overcome in order to achieve what he believes is the ultimate goal of humanity. Journey with Dr. Barrett as he encounters various...
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This is a classic science fiction short story by Stanley G. Weinbaum that was originally published in Astounding Stories in 1935. It tells the story of an experimental medical procedure on a woman close to death. The procedure brings her back from the brink but gives her unexpected powers of adaptation, making her incredibly dangerous. The pair that created her must find some way of stopping her, but will they find a way to nullify her superhuman...
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The Age of the Singularity has arrived, the time when A.I. can exist and function independently. The A.I. Department of International Humane Resources, was set up in 2030 and it was established to provide humans with a comfortable existence on the planet, making sure that living conditions were always humane and no one had to suffer from lack of anything.There was no hunger and no poverty in the world, since the Artificial Intelligent machines were...
305) Ischiopagus
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« Excuse-moi de la brutalité de mon annonce, je n'aurais jamais cru, dans ma vie de gynécologue o je peux parfois annoncer de mauvaises nouvelles, prononcer une phrase si improbable devant un patient. "Madame, vous êtes enceinte d'un cerveau." »
Agnès est enceinte. Dans son ventre, un cerveau, « the cerveau ». Comment cela peut-il être possible ? Le professeur Meyer, un érudit assoiffé de connaissances, se pose la même question.
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In the not-so-distant future, organs can be re-grown from a handful of stem cells.
For patients who can afford the treatment and hang on to life support for long enough, the prognosis is good. Even the most complex organ of all can be reproduced in the lab with nearly perfect accuracy. Nearly.
Patients of brain regeneration face a wide range of problems, from loss of motor functions or intelligence to sociopathy. Spurred by personal tragedy, research...
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As processing power grows in the twenty-first century, computers progress to a state of programmable matter. How is this, technology used? The offspring of oligarchs transcend mortality as beneficiaries of Life Contract insurance, assuring their survival... sometimes despite their own best efforts.
Rupert Archibald, a terminally disturbed orphan with a history of immolation, gathers a gang of "pain pioneers," who push the limits of physical trauma...
308) Longer
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In Longer, Michael Blumlein explores dauntingly epic topics-love, the expanse of the human lifespan, mortality-with a beautifully sharp story that glows with grace and good humor even as it forces us to confront deep, universal fears.
Gunjita and Cav are in orbit.
R&D scientists for pharmaceutical giant Gleem Galactic, they are wealthy enough to participate in rejuvenation: rebooting themselves from old age to jump their bodies back to their twenties....
309) Deeper Chaos
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A few incidents set in the Elite and the Rogues Universe that add to the world and characters.
Alexander Selwood meets Kaylee Ashton in an unexpected place. She has secrets to hide.
During their first meeting, Joyce doesn't trust Alexander, but Amir tries to allay her fears.
David has a quiet day at home.
Daisy Goldman runs into someone on a sleepless night.
Daniele Donato has a new mission.
Elena Meier has plans
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The World of the far future is placid, peaceful, and prosperous. Unfortunately someone forgot to tell that to...JOHNNY SPACEHAIR
Private agent Johnny Spacehair is hired by a member of the galactic bureaucracy to track down a mythical compound known as the Oil of Ages. It is believed to be the key to either saving society from eons of stagnation or, in the wrong hands, plunging it into absolute chaos. Johnny is an unpredictable element in a tightly...
311) Voidstalker
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What glitters is gold, but beneath it is rot.Humanity has a sprawling interstellar empire. Advances in science and the resources of countless frontier worlds have brought untold prosperity to its citizens. But how much of this wealth comes from dangerous experiments with alien technology?As an elite intelligence operative, that question plagues Gabriel Thorn constantly. When contact is lost with a mysterious research facility, he is sent to investigate....
312) The Lunar Escape
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The time has come to leave the moon...
Paul has gone missing down on the freezing earth. It's up to Alya and her Geep powers to find out what's happened to him.
Will Alya find her almost-boyfriend? Or, will the shady organisation known as the Continuum stop her search permanently.
313) Gattaca
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1 videodisc (106 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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As one of the last "natural" beings born into a genetically engineered world, Vincent Freeman has none of the 'pre-ordered' DNA that will guarantee him success. Desperate to realize his dream of exploring space, Vincent assumes the identity of a genetically superior athlete. Avoiding detection using the athlete's genetic markers, Vincent becomes a rising star at Gattaca Aerospace, attracting the attention of a beautiful co-worker. When a flight director...
314) Apocalypse Nyx
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Ex-government assassin turned bounty-hunter, Nyx, is good at solving other people's problems. Her favorite problem-solving solution is punching people in the face. Then maybe chopping off some heads. Hey―it's a living.
Nyx's disreputable reputation has been well earned. After all, she's trying to navigate an apocalyptic world full of giant bugs, contaminated deserts, scheming magicians, and a centuries-long war that's consuming her future. Managing...
316) Anything You Can Do
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The Alien was really alien-and Earth was faced with a strange problem indeed. They had to have a superman. And there weren't any. So.... Randall Garrett was an American science fiction and fantasy author. He was a prolific contributor to Astounding and other science fiction magazines of the 1950s and 1960s. He instructed Robert Silverberg in the techniques of selling large quantities of action-adventure science fiction and collaborated with him on...
317) Maximum Ride: 1
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232 pages : chiefly illustrations ; 21 cm
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"Fourteen-year-old Maximum Ride knows what it's like to soar above the world. She and all the members of her 'flock'-- Fang, Iggy, Nudge, Gasman, and Angel-- are just like ordinary kids, except they have wings and can fly! It may seem like a dream come true to some, but for the flock it's more like a living nightmare when the mysterious lab known as the 'School' turns up and kidnaps their youngest member. Now it's up to Max to organize a rescue, but...
318) Fledgling: a novel
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Fledgling, Octavia Butler's last novel, is the story of an apparently young, amnesiac girl whose alarmingly un-human needs and abilities lead her to a startling conclusion: she is in fact a genetically modified, 53-year-old vampire.
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"A man wakes up in a living room he doesn't recognize, unable to remember anything about himself. All he has are the few remnants of his identity scattered throughout the house -- clues to his past. He soon learns that he is Charles Lang, a brilliant scientist whose wife, Julie, and daughter, Jess, mysteriously disappeared several years ago. Soon, he begins to recover memories--memories that may or may not be his own -- and as he does, he realizes...
320) The Heart of Leo
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Fall in Love with a Star....Heart, a girl of fifteen, lives in a world of madness and grace, where test-tube babies are propagated to discover the secrets of Eternal Life.Left as a foundling on the doorstep of a Darling Undesirables facility, alive and healthy – without a heart! – she has always loved stars. Her first love is Caffau's star, 13 billion years old, in the Heart of Leo, one of the oldest and most mysterious stars in the Universe.Her...
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