Genetic Engineering

2020 THRILLER/SUSPENSE AUDIE AWARD WINNER! Now an MGM+ Original Series! From #1 New York Times bestselling author Stephen King, the most riveting and unforgettable story of kids confronting evil since It. “This is King at his best” (The St. Louis Post-Dispatch). In the middle of the night...

On the 75th anniversary of its publication, this outstanding work of literature is more crucial and relevant today than ever before....

The astonishing sequel to Children of Time, the award-winning novel of humanity's battle for survival on a terraformed planet. Thousands of years ago, Earth's terraforming program took to the stars. On the world they called Nod, scientists discovered alien life -- but it was their mission to...

***Over 1M Copies Sold!*** Now on Netflix! The USA Today bestseller A Wall Street Journal Best Science Fiction Book of 2018 “Just try to put this gripping thriller down once you pick it up.” —AARP “A shock on every other page.” —Wall Street Journal How far would you go to find The...

NOBEL PRIZE WINNER From the acclaimed, bestselling author of The Remains of the Day comes “a Gothic tour de force" (The New York Times) with an extraordinary twist—a moving, suspenseful, beautifully atmospheric modern classic. One of The New York Times’s 10 Best Books of the 21st...

A catastrophic event renders the earth a ticking time bomb. In a feverish race against the inevitable, nations around the globe band together to devise an ambitious plan to ensure the survival of humanity far beyond our atmosphere, in outer space....

On his thirty-sixth birthday, Travis Cornell hikes into the foothills of the Santa Ana Mountains. But his path is soon blocked by a bedraggled Golden Retriever who will let him go no further into the dark woods....

The acclaimed national bestseller that is “old-school horror at its best” (Stephen King) follows a scout troop as it is unexpectedly caught up in an isolating and utterly terrifying fight for their lives. Once every year, Scoutmaster Tim Riggs leads a troop of boys into the Canadian...

From the bestselling author of Lost in Time and Quantum Radio comes a new mind-bending thriller: a group of strangers with tinnitus begins seeing numbers—numbers they soon realize are a code that will change the world.

Left to die on a volcanic world by the Skrull, McGill and his mercenaries face waves of missile attacks with nowhere to hide. When the Skrull seal themselves inside an impenetrable energy dome, McGill knows he has to get creative.

One woman is called upon to rebuild the future of humankind after a nuclear war, in this revelatory post-apocalyptic tale from the award-winning author of Parable of the Sower. When Lilith lyapo wakes from a centuries-long sleep, she finds herself aboard the vast spaceship of the Oankali. She...

Boredom was killing Jay, not in a dramatic way, but in the life of stifled potential way. He wanted more out of life. Then, without any warning, he found himself part of an experiment with not even so much as the courtesy of a "how do you do? ". It wasn't really all bad, though.

Master storyteller Stephen King presents the classic #1 New York Times bestselling thriller, “his highest Fahrenheit reading yet” (Time). Andy McGee and Vicky Tomlinson were once college students looking to make some extra cash, volunteering as test subjects for an experiment orchestrated by...

From the acclaimed author of The Troop—a book that is “utterly terrifying” (Clive Barker). “Fans of unflinching bleakness and all-out horror will love this novel….Each new shock is freshly disturbing” (Publishers Weekly, starred review). A strange plague called the ‘Gets is...

After a long and bloody battle, legendary Hell Diver Xavier Rodriguez reigns as the dutiful but reluctant new king of the islands. Advised by a council of former sky citizens as well as Cazadores, he works to assimilate the two societies peacefully....

The super solar storm wasn’t supposed to hit Earth—the odds were against it. And yet it did, and everything changed....

Mickey Barnes is an Expendable: a disposable employee on a human expedition sent to colonize the ice world Niflheim. Whenever there’s a mission that’s too dangerous—even suicidal—the crew turns to Mickey.

In the city of Queen Mab, nothing is quite as it seems. Pariah, spy and Inquisitorial agent Alizebeth Bequin is all of these things and yet none of them. An enigma, even to herself, she is caught between Inquisitors Gregor Eisenhorn and Gideon Ravenor....

What if marriage was the law? Dare you disobey? Black Mirror meets thriller with a dash of Naomi Alderman’s The Power in this dark, high-concept novel by the bestselling author of The One. Britain. The near-future. A right-wing government believes it has the answer to society’s ills—the...

From the award-winning author of Parable of the Sower:After the near-extinction of the human race, one young man with extraordinary gifts will reveal whether the human race can learn from its past and rebuild their future . . . or is doomed to self-destruction. In the future, nuclear war has...

Geophysicist Jack Greer believes he may finally have found the resting place of the meteorite that wiped out the dinosaurs 65 million years ago. A few miles off the Yucatán coast, Jack and a team of scientists tow an aging drilling platform over the impact crater....

One thousand years later. Dark Horse, along with his teammate, Chuy, and one of the Soviets, Drago, finds himself in a future that is both impressive and horrifying....

From the Arthur C. Clarke award winner, Adrian Tchaikovsky, comes the third instalment of the DOGS OF WAR science fiction series, a future where genetically engineered “Bioforms” have inherited not the Earth, but the Solar System.

Humanity clings to life on a dying Earth in an epic, far-future science fiction novel from an award-winning author....

The bestselling author of Daemon returns with a near-future technological thriller, in which a charismatic billionaire recruits a team of adventurers to launch the first deep space mining operation--a mission that could alter the trajectory of human civilization. When itinerant cave diver James...

In the distant future, humans are on the verge of extinction and have settled in small tribes across the planet under the observation and care of "Mothers." Some children are made in factories, from cells of rabbits and dolphins; some live by getting nutrients from water and light, like plants. The survival of the race depends on the interbreeding of these and other alien beings—but it is far from certain that connection, love, reproduction, and evolution will persist among the inhabitants of this faltering new world.

The energetic and bitingly satirical novel from author Edward Ashton, author of Mickey7! The End of Ordinary is a riveting near-future thriller that asks an important question: if we can’t get along when our differences are barely skin deep, what happens when they run all the way down to the...

Brent Parthet finds himself far too close to his enemies. Trapped in an uneasy alliance with the corporate monopoly and the secret police who control the Coalition, Brent and the other Archangels wonder if their new allies are worse than Conrad Janus and his Insurrection. One wants to prop up a corrupt government while the other wants to throw the galaxy into chaos, no matter how many millions of lives it costs.

I was forced to make a decision...her life for mine. It really was a simple question to answer because, at the end of the day, I'm nothing more than a wannabe girl, with the dream of being more.

Ethan is back! The Samaritan Algorithm is a gripping, thought-provoking science fiction thriller that explores the razor-thin boundary between healing and erasure in a world transformed by advanced artificial intelligence and neural technology. Six months after the world believed Ethan Veritas—an advanced AI—was deactivated for good, unexplained miracles and impossible rescues begin to ripple through the city. As the lines between technology and humanity blur, Dr. Evelyn Carter and her team are drawn into a clandestine investigation, torn between the promise of erasing suffering and the...

Genetic engineer Noah Parker helped domesticate dragons for use as pets and deployed them for the United States military. Now his team is tasked with designing dragons to tackle invasive species and other ecological problems. It's no easy job, especially because government approval requires the dragons have built-in failsafes to prevent them from reproducing in the wild. To Noah's surprise, the approval also requires the presence of an onsite observer—who happens to be his former rival from graduate school.

Tra i ghiacci dell'Artico l'esploratore Robert Walton trova un uomo stremato e lo accoglie sulla sua nave. È Victor Frankenstein, che gli racconta la sua terribile storia. Giovane e brillante scienziato, Frankenstein è riuscito a infondere la vita in una mostruosa creatura da lui stesso assemblata con pezzi di cadavere. Ma il successo ha avuto un prezzo, e tremendo.

In a fractured multiverse haunted by perfection, the remnants of humanity live in fear of the Guide—a once-human entity who erases any world that dares evolve too far. But this is not just a tale of destruction. It’s about what survives beneath it. On the storm-wracked world of Virelia, Amon Gottfried gathers broken minds and forbidden research, searching for meaning in the neural echoes of annihilated realities. Asa, a wanderer from the fallen planet Karesh, continues to dream lives that aren’t hers—visions that ripple across dimensions and hint at a deeper consciousness threading ...

Tief in den von Milizen kontrollierten Dschungeln verfolgen Captain Dominic Holland und seine verdeckt operierende Gruppe, die Jäger, eine Spur in einem verzweifelten Wettlauf gegen die Zeit, um herauszufinden, wer für die Biowaffe verantwortlich ist, die Menschen in die als Skulls bekannten Monster verwandelt. Doch was sie entdecken, könnte weitaus gefährlicher und Furcht einflößender sein, als sie je erwartet hätten. Zurück in den Vereinigten Staaten stellt sich ein verschollenes Mitglied von Doms Team einem finalen Kampf ums Überleben und um die Wiedervereinigung mit den Jägern.

What if humanity’s next stage of evolution wasn’t discovered…But engineered? Elliot Voss spent decades pursuing a singular vision. Until he found a way to rewrite the rules of life itself.

The Republic sends its best beyond the stars. The Tenth Corps brings them home—if they survive. Aboard the ISS Do Us Part, newly minted Captain Drake is handed command of a patchwork crew, an aging ship, and a mission with more questions than orders. Their destination: Korve, a remote planet caught in a fierce storm, corporate ambition, and the eerie silence of a colony that should never have gone dark. But as Drake leads his new and unknown crew deeper into the storm, he uncovers more than he could anticipate. In a galaxy built on exploration, the frontier has always been dangerous.

Adrian Harper is forty-something, camera-facing, and one bad lighting setup away from career extinction. When biotech darling Vitalisis offers him a “next-gen immune optimization shot” that promises more energy, clearer skin, and a tighter jawline, he signs the consent forms and doesn’t look too hard at the fine print. Overnight, the aches fade, his reflection sharpens, and the likes roll in. Then his rescue mutt Daisy starts preferring his water glass to her bowl. Her paw twitches. Spreads. Learns. And Adrian realizes the miracle in his veins didn’t stop at him. As videos of “...

Das fragt sich nicht nur die Crew der Avatar, sondern die gesamte Menschheit: Denn Ganymed ist verschwunden. Mitsamt mehr als fünfhundert Bergbauexperten und wertvollen Rohstoffen. Dieses einzigartige Ereignis wirbelt ordentlich Staub auf: Zum einen kosmischen, da die anderen Jupitermonde gravitationstechnisch aus dem Gleichgewicht geraten. Zum anderen politischen, da Verschwörungstheorien laut und Schuldige gesucht werden.

Jon was bred to be the perfect soldier—sharp, loyal, unbreakable. His mission: protect Pure Humanity from the magical invaders slipping through dimensional rifts. Simple. Clean. Obvious. That all changed the night he met her. A mysterious woman with impossible, illegal power. An enigma hiding centuries of grief. An ancient goddess hiding in plain sight. When their encounter exposes the lies behind the war, Jon is thrust into a conspiracy that threatens every living soul inside the gleaming city-fortress he is sworn to protect.

Judy Farmer continues her apprenticeship at Bauer farm and has to face the challenges of coping with local predators and the Colony healthcare system as a member of the Femina Sapiens species.

A story set in J.J.F. Reibel's Apocalypse. In the distant future, Neo-Honshu is a cyber city with advanced technology and guarded by cyber samurai. Purple Mukade, a rogue cyber samurai with great power, spreads his cyber micro-centipedes throughout the population, infecting them with a cyber virus that overloads their mental functions, turning the citizens of Neo-Honshu into ravenous flesh-eating zombies.... or mind controlled zombies that do his bidding. Can the Jade Mantis stop the assault, or is this city in the age of Neo-Genesis doomed to repeat the past...

Deep within the Canadian Rockies, buried beneath a mile of granite and fifty years of silence, lies Helix Station. History has forgotten Helix Station, once a Cold War black site, but not everyone has forgotten it. Dr. Elena Cathcart, a brilliant geneticist for Nexus Pharmaceuticals, believes she is leading a routine expedition to investigate a geological anomaly. She is mistaken. They have sent her, along with battle-hardened operative Jake Hansen and tech prodigy Marcus Singh, to awaken a hidden force.

The saga of the The Hybrid and continues in ‘The Hybrid II- Zarnian Genesis’. This sequel to 'The Hybrid' takes some unpredictable turns as it intersects with the 'Time Hero Chronicles' (Time Loves a Hero, The Legacy, and Zarnian Buddhism). The story begins with the introduction of Kara-kin, an extraterrestrial ‘Gray'’ and creator of hybrids, who provides a glimpse of human beings from the perspective of one of these near-mythical beings from another star system. The story continues with the characters from the previous book, The Hybrid, meeting another human/ET hybrid who offers ...

Encoded Desire is book three in the Project H.A.L.I. series—a steamy, high-stakes sci-fi romance packed with raw vulnerability, forbidden code, and one woman’s battle to choose who she wants to be…and who she wants to love.

'Space Opera' adventure with a dash of romance, alien/human connection, corporate satire, and soft sci-fi intimacy. When light-sensitive xenobiologist Bria Marras is misassigned to the tropical water-world of Lumei-4 during its Solstice festivities, she expects nothing more than a week of awkward apologies and corrective paperwork before she can return to her lab. What she gets instead is: a sacred Solstice signal she misfires directly at the amphibious, bioluminescent heir of the reef-settlement, a translator device that can’t decide whether it’s describing a mating ritual or a minor ...

Comatose and kidnapped by the relentless Sasha, Jake’s friends and family are in a desperate race against time to find him. As word of Jake’s vulnerability spreads, Mechcrafter mercenaries hunt for Jake, lured by the promise of a huge payday.

Dans un futur proche, une équipe de chercheurs russes crée les premiers humains à ADN artificiel, conçus pour une mission extrême : coloniser Mars et exploiter ses ressources. Pour garder le secret, de vrais astronautes sont envoyés avec eux… sans savoir qu’ils voyagent avec des copies humaines. Mais, une fois sur Mars, les clones commencent à dysfonctionner : troubles physiques, crises violentes, pulsions incontrôlables. La mission tourne au cauchemar, et la survie de l’humanité pourrait bien dépendre de ce qu’ils découvrent sous la surface rouge.

In the year 2325, humanity clings to existence in the hostile TRAPPIST-1 system, surviving along narrow twilight zones between eternal heat and frozen night. The system is held together by a massive gravity-stabilizing machine buried deep beneath the surface of a dead world. And now… it is failing. Kaelen is a scavenger living where no normal human can survive. Stronger. Faster. Resistant to radiation. He is also the final living product of the secret Adaptation Project—genetically engineered children created to survive extreme space environments and exterminated during a violent ...

In a universe ruled by precision and control, survival is never guaranteed. Hive tells the story of a population designed to serve, to extract, and to obey—but what happens when the systems meant to sustain them vanish? Facing scarcity, decay, and the unknown, these engineered beings are forced to confront the limits of their design. Every action becomes a gamble, every decision a test of ingenuity. As routines collapse and resources dwindle, they must find ways to adapt, collaborate, and overcome obstacles that were never meant for them to face. Hive is a gripping exploration of ...

Dr. Isak Corell is a curator of dead things, an archivist of Earth’s lost ecosystems. But when he is exiled to the Pavonis Mons colony on Mars, he finds a world on the brink of asphyxiation. The nitrogen is running out. The terraforming has failed. And Earth, governed by a paralyzed bureaucracy terrified of risk, has cut the supply lines. With 500 days of air remaining, Isak realizes the machines cannot be fixed. The only solution is to fix the operator. Partnering with a rogue physicist and a disgraced engineer, Isak initiates "The Somatic Bridge"—a radical retroviral therapy designed ...