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Summary: Bean moves with three of his children into a derelict space colony ship where they hope for a cure to engineered genes that give them high intelligence and short lives, a situation that is complicated when space-time distortions cause them to be forgotten by humanity.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tor 2011
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Summary: The six children have escaped horrifying government experiments, a childhood in captivity, and a frightening brush with death. Living out in the world for the first time, they yearn to be reunited with Kit and Frannie, the couple who saved their lives. And Max, the leader of the flock, is seized by an overpowering fear that the kids are about to face a danger greater than any they've ever known.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown 2003
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Summary: Genetically engineered tapeworms that protect most of the human populace from illness, boost everyone's immune system, and even secrete designer drugs begin to change and want out of human bodies they occupy.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Orbit 2013
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Summary: "Jimmy, perhaps the last living human unaltered by science, struggles for survival in a post-apocalyptic world as he tries to make sense of how everything went wrong, morns the loss of his beloved Oryx ... considers the role of his genius friend Crake who had been working a formula for immortality at the RejoovenEsenseCompound."
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Publisher / Publication Date: Nan A. Talese 2003
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Summary: After the mutant Erasers abduct the youngest member of their group, the "bird kids," who are the result of genetic experimentation, take off in pursuit and find themselves struggling to understand their own origins and purpose.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown 2007
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC PATRocha, Kit
Summary: "Nina is an information broker with a mission--she and her team of mercenary librarians use their knowledge to save the hopeless in a crumbling America. Knox is the bitter, battle-weary captain of the Silver Devils. His squad of supersoldiers went AWOL to avoid slaughtering innocents, and now he's fighting to survive. They're on a deadly collision course, and the passion that flares between...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tor, a Tom Doherty Associates Book 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ROCCampbell, Jack
Summary: "Earth, 2180 Genetically engineered with partly-alien DNA, Lieutenant Selene Genji is different than ordinary humans. And they hate her for it. Still, she's spent her life trying to overcome society's prejudice by serving in the Unified Fleet as Earth's international order collapses into war. Genji is stationed on a ship in orbit when humanity's hatreds and factions on the planet reach a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ace 2024
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1 available in New Fiction, Call number: FIC CAMGear, Kathleen O'Neal
Summary: Teen members of a group of archaic humans, Lynx and Quiller, flee the increasing coldness and monstrous predators for a new land, where they meet a strange old man who tells them how to save the world.
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Publisher / Publication Date: DAW Books, Inc. 2021
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GEAShusterman, Neal
Summary: "Noah Prime discovers he can exhibit the traits and access the abilities of animals and must use them to fight back against those who are hunting him"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2023
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1 available in New Youth Materials, Call number: J FIC SHUSweren-Becker, Daniel
Summary: "Genetically engineered teenagers called 'The Ones' go to extremes fighting for their rights as society turns against them"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Imprint 2016
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1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: YA FIC SWECard, Orson Scott.
Summary: Child-hero Ender Wiggin must fight a desperate battle against a deadly alien race if mankind is to survive.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tor 1991