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61) Vitals
Author
Pub. Date
2002
Description
A harrowing thriller based on real-life discoveries in cell theory and the battle against aging and death by the bestselling author of Darwin's Radio and War Dogs. Scientist Hal Cousins is on the brink of success in his quest to determine the biological underpinnings of immortality. Funded by angel investors, the brilliant researcher makes a trip by submersible to the bottom of the sea, searching for primitive one-celled organisms that may be related...
Author
Series
Neptune Project volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 12
Description
No one asked Nere if she wanted to become a science experiment--they just went right ahead and bio-engineered her lungs to be able to breath water as well as air. She and a group of other genetically modified kids find out they are part of "The Neptune Project," which aims at creating a new human society in the ocean, far away from the dangers of land. However, the dangers of the sea are just as deadly.
Author
Description
In this "brilliantly written" book, the author of Brave New World reflects on his dystopian classic-and its echoes in the real world decades later (Kirkus Reviews).
Written almost thirty years after the publication of Aldous Huxley's groundbreaking dystopian novel, Brave New World Revisited compares the "future" of 1958 with his vision of it from the early 1930s. Touching on subjects as diverse as world population, drugs, subliminal suggestion,...
65) Above World
Author
Series
Above World volume 1
Pub. Date
[2012]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 10
Description
In a future of high technology and genetic modification the Coral Kampii, like legendary mermaids, live isolated from the Above World, but when the devices that allow them to breathe underwater start to fail, thirteen-year-old Aluna and her friend Hoku go to that forbidden place to find help.
66) Shards of earth
Author
Series
Final Architecture trilogy volume 1
Description
"Idris used to be a war hero--a fighting elite, technologically enhanced not only to be stronger, faster, and near immortal, but to communicate mind-to-mind with Earth's mysterious alien enemies known as the Architects. Then the Architects simply disappeared--and Idris and his kind became obsolete. Now, fifty years later, Idris and his crew have found something strange abandoned in space. Have their enemies returned? And if so, why?"--provided by...
67) Shela
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2021
Description
A scifi action/adventure where genetically engineered people herd schools of tuna using trained dolphins as herd dogs. Human traffickers have kidnapped one of the women and are on their way to sell her into slavery. But she has friends who aren't about to let the slavers get away with it. Now Tovio and Olga are on a desperate chase across the Pacific Ocean to save their friend.
68) Microserfs
Author
Pub. Date
c1995
Description
They are Microserfs-six code-crunching computer whizzes who spend upward of sixteen hours a day "coding" and eating "flat" foods (food which, like Kraft singles, can be passed underneath closed doors) as they fearfully scan company e-mail to learn whether the great Bill is going to "flame" one of them. But now there's a chance to become innovators instead of cogs in the gargantuan Microsoft machine. The intrepid Microserfs are striking out on their...
69) Tentacle & wing
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 10
Formats
Description
"Twelve-year-old Ada is a Chimera, one of a number of children born with human and animal DNA thanks to a genetic experiment gone wrong. When she is shipped off to a quarantined school for other kids like herself, she senses that the facility is keeping a secret, which, if discovered, could upend everything the world knows about how Chimeras came into being"--
70) Double helix
Author
Pub. Date
[2004]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 9
Description
Eighteen-year-old Eli discovers a shocking secret about his life and his family while working for a Nobel Prize-winning scientist whose specialty is genetic engineering.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 10
Formats
Description
The time has come for Max, Fang, Iggy, Nudge, Gazzy and Angel to face their ultimate enemy and, despite many obstacles, try to save the world from a sinister plan to re-engineer a selected population into a scientifically superior master race. Book #3
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Series
Leviathan trilogy volume 2
Pub. Date
2010.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 13
Description
Continues the story of Austrian Prince Alek who, in an alternate 1914 Europe, eludes the Germans by traveling in the Leviathan to Constantinople, where he faces a whole new kind of genetically engineered warships.
73) Behemoth
Author
Series
Leviathan trilogy volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 13
Description
The behemoth is the fiercest creature in the British Navy. It can swallow enemy battleships with one bite. The Darwinists will need it, now that they are at war with the Clanker Powers. Deryn is a girl posing as a boy in the British Air Service, and Alek is the heir to an empire posing as a commoner. Finally together aboard the airship Leviathan, they hope to bring the war to a halt. But when disaster strikes the Leviathan's peacekeeping mission,...
74) Perfected
Author
Series
Perfected volume 1
Pub. Date
2014.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 11
Description
Ella is a genetically engineered human, bred in a kennel, and trained to be subservient to her master, but when she is bought by a congressman as a playmate for his daughter, Ella unexpectedly starts to develop a connection with his son.
75) Partials
Author
Series
Partials sequence volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 20
Description
"In a post-apocalyptic eastern seaboard ravaged by disease and war with a manmade race of people called Partials, the chance at a future rests in the hands of Kira Walker, a sixteen-year-old medic in training"--
76) City of the Dead
Author
Series
Hawk volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 10
Formats
Description
Hawk accepts her mother Max's help to prevent vengeful hybrids, amoral scientists, traitorous politicians, and a deadly virus from overwhelming her beloved, polluted city.
77) Wither
Author
Series
Chemical Garden trilogy volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 13
Description
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.
78) Fuse
Author
Series
Pure trilogy volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 20
Formats
Description
To be a Pure is to be perfect, untouched by Detonations that scarred the earth, and sheltered inside the paradise that is the Dome. But Partridge escaped to the outside world, where Wretches struggle to survive amid smoke and ash. Now, at the command of Partridge's father, the Dome is unleashing nightmare after nightmare upon the Wretches in an effort to get him back. At Partridge's side is a small band of those united against the Dome: Lyda, the...
Author
Series
Elysium cycle volume 3
Pub. Date
1998
Description
A group of orphans settle on an inhospitable planet where only humans who have been genetically altered can survive, and when a group of builders decides to alter the planet's natural habitat, the orphans must find a way to protect their home before it is destroyed by profit-hungry men.
80) The unraveling
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Description
In the distant future, somewhere in the galaxy, a world has evolved where each person has multiple bodies, cybernetics has abolished privacy, and individual and family success are reliant upon instantaneous evaluations of how well each member conforms to the rigid social system. Young Fift is an only child of the Staid gender, struggling to maintain zir position in the system while developing a friendship with the acclaimed bioengineer Shria--a controversial...