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1) Mickey7
Author
Series
Mickey7 volume 1
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"Dying isn't any fun...but at least it's a living. Mickey7 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. After one iteration dies, a new body is regenerated with most of his memories intact. After six deaths, Mickey7 understands the terms of his deal...and why it was the only colonial position unfilled when...
Author
Series
Masterminds trilogy volume 3
Language
English
Description
Fighting for survival after being separated into pairs in the aftermath of a betrayal, the Project Osiris clones search for notorious mob boss Gus Alabaster while tracking down Eli's elusive DNA donor alongside a surprising new ally.
Author
Series
Mickey7 volume 2
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
Mickey Barnes, once the colony's Expendable Mickey7, retired from service on a lie. Now that the beleaguered colony is running out of fuel, he's stuck making that lie good, only to discover that the antimatter bomb he carefully hid under a rock pile was found by the native inhabitants and traded to their enemies—in the hopes said enemies would either leave them alone or blow themselves up. Which puts Mickey back in the expendable seat, leading a...
7) Foe: a novel
Author
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
Reid is at it again, exploiting readers with plot twists, narrative unease, and explosive conclusions in his second novel. Henrietta and Junior's peaceful rural life is upended by a visit from Terrance, a representative of the OuterMore Corporation, a vast private-governmental partnership exploring space colonization. Junior has been selected as a candidate to travel on the first trip to the stars, and Terrance informs him that the process will take...
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Series
Language
English
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Description
A wealthy entrepreneur secretly creates a theme park featuring living dinosaurs drawn from prehistoric DNA. Before opening the attraction to the public, he invites some scientists to experience the park and help calm anxious investors; but, during the visit, the security system breaks down and prehistoric creatures break out.
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"'When they said all happy families are alike, I don't think this is what they meant...' Evelyn Caldwell's husband Nathan has been having an affair - with Evelyn Caldwell. Or, to be exact, with a genetically cloned replica. After a morning that begins with a confrontation and ends with Nathan's body bleeding out on the kitchen floor, the two Caldwell wives will have to think fast-before sharing everything includes sharing a jail cell. The Echo Wife...
11) Never let me go
Author
Language
English
Description
From the Booker Prize-winning author of The Remains of the Day and When We Were Orphans, comes an unforgettable edge-of-your-seat mystery that is at once heartbreakingly tender and morally courageous about what it means to be human. Hailsham seems like a pleasant English boarding school, far from the influences of the city. Its students are well tended and supported, trained in art and literature, and become just the sort of people the world wants...
12) The mirror man
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Meet Jeremiah Adams. There are two of him. The offer is too tempting: be part of a scientific breakthrough, step out of his life for a year, and be paid hugely for it. When ViMed Pharmaceutical asks Jeremiah to be part of an illegal cloning experiment, he sees it as a break from an existence he feels disconnected from. No one will know he's been replaced -- not the son who ignores him, not his increasingly distant wife -- since a revolutionary drug...
14) Kiln people
Author
Publisher
Tom Doherty Associates
Pub. Date
2002.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
459 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
15) Noumenon
Author
Series
Noumenon volume 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
2088. Humankind is at last ready to explore beyond Earth's solar system. Astrophysicist Reggie Straifer has discovered an anomalous star that appears to defy the laws of physics, and proposes the creation of a deep-space mission to find out whether the star is a weird natural phenomenon, or something manufactured. The journey will take eons. In order to maintain the genetic talent of the original crew, the voyage is undertaken by clones. But a clone...
18) Six wakes
Author
Publisher
Orbit
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Awakening in a cloning vat, streaked with blood and possessing no memory of how she died, new clone Maria Arena discovers the clones of six former starship crew members and must identify their murderers before the killer strikes again.
19) Cloning
Author
Publisher
Blackbirch Press
Pub. Date
[2003]
Physical Desc
48 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Discusses the history of the concept of cloning and the pros and cons of cloning animals and humans.
20) Masterminds
Author
Series
Masterminds trilogy volume 1
Language
English
Description
"A group of kids discovers they were cloned from the DNA of some of the greatest criminal masterminds in history for a sociological experiment"--
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