Genetic Fiction

Ученые нашли способ, как улучшить ДНК человека, делая его сильнее, выносливее, здоровее, и сказки стали былью. Обычным людям приходится сосуществовать и как-то уживаться с модифицированными. За ними будущее, они в приоритете, у них выше зарплаты и всегда найдется работа. Все больше людей решаются изменить себя. Я о таком даже думать не хотела, но мне не оставили выбора. Взгляд одного из оборотней остановился на мне, и он объявил меня своей парой, а для второго я стала чем-то вроде дичи. Нельзя отказаться, некуда бежать, и помощи ждать неоткуда.

Da saß ich nun, mutterseelenallein auf meinem Floß, um mich herum die Weite des Ozeans. Hinter mir loderten die Flammen noch immer über der Insel der Freiheit. Vor mir erstreckte das Wasser sich bis zum Horizont. Ich wusste nicht, ob jemand von den anderen Insassen überlebt hatte. Ich hatte keine Ahnung, ob man mich suchen würde – und wenn ja, wer. Meine einzige Option lag darin, weiterzumachen und mich einem unbekannten Schicksal anzuvertrauen.

Julia Walden–a Synth–was designed for one reason: to compete on The Proposal and claim the heart of bachelor Josh LaSala. Her casting is controversial, but Julia seems to get her fairy-tale ending when Josh gets down on one knee. Fast-forward fifteen months, and Julia and Josh are married and raising their baby in small-town Indiana. But with haters around every corner, Julia's life is a far cry from the domestic bliss she imagined. Then her splintering world shatters: Josh goes missing, and she becomes the prime suspect in his murder.

Two graduate students decide to solve their financial problems by becoming egg donors at an exclusive, highly profitable fertility clinic on Boston's North Shore. But second thoughts and curiosity prompt the two women to find out more about their donated eggs. Obtaining employment at the clinic under aliases, they soon discover the horrifying aims of its research, immediately putting their lives, and their sanity, irrevocably at risk.

Broke and unemployed, “Jumper” Sirantha Jax accepts a diplomatic mission for the government - only to find herself up against Syndicate criminals, man-eating aliens, and her own grimspace-weakened body.

A trip to the library prompts one woman to question her fate in this galvanizing short story. For a woman like Hadley, deemed not acceptable to procreate, there’s only one recourse. Unlicensed for motherhood, she can alleviate her grief and frustration at a “baby library,” where a curiously endless supply of infants is available for a two-week loan. But the borrowed life that serves as a temporary balm leads to a journey of self-discovery that will forever change the direction of Hadley’s future.

Ten years ago, a meteor storm strafed the earth with deep space shrapnel. In the aftermath, crash sites around the world went radio silent. Permanently. Most of these Deadzones were claimed by cartels and warlords. The low orbit corporates use others for weapons testing. And biosphere mutations have altered some beyond recognition.

Fighter pilot Beau Ward was always willing to bend the rules to get the job done. His "independent" attitude got him bounced around the Federation Fleet for years—until he took it too far. A long-standing debt has been called in, and he's the one who must pay it back.

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.

Brady knew two things: It was the end of the world, and the Greens had won. 2084 was going to be an interesting year. All he needed to do was break out of jail first. Sattva Systems™ had transformed Nanotechnology and Fusion Power to avert the oncoming climate change catastrophe. Still, they were thwarted by the old industries at every turn. Leaving Bodhi Sattva - its charismatic owner, with no choice but to team up with the Green Revolutionaries to bring down the internet and capitalism. He would lead them into a new era with his one-hundred-year plan to save the planet.

Life in the year 2134 is nearly perfect, with nanotechnology and medical science granting people near-immortality. But when Sam Harger is flagged as a terrorist, his powerful wife dies in a plane crash, and his daughter's cryogenically frozen head becomes a sought-after prize, Sam must fight to save the human race from a secret cabal.

Rhona has battled the malevolent AI intent on wiping out humanity since the first Machinations began - until she’s killed during a rescue mission gone wrong. Now, Rhona awakens to find herself transported to a new body, complete with her DNA and her personality. She's a clone...of herself. Except for her missing memories. Some of which could potentially turn the tide of the war.

In the far-future Ninth World, claves of Aeon Priests help their community understand and use the mysterious technologies of the past. But what happens when a group of these priests uses this knowledge and power to exploit the people who depend on them? In the region of Steremoss, a group of brave individuals are determined to resist this oppression from the shadows. They call themselves the Night Clave.

A corrosive disinformation agency that levels total societal control by scripting all of the world’s major events comes to suspect that its own too clever for their own good secret operatives may have quietly developed an omniscient population thinning super weapon. Desperate to keep the reins, the agency conscripts possessed saboteurs; five men with minds fueled by a ravenous form of insect psychology to inflict its disloyal agents with fatal serial strings of bad luck.

Jewel is a tomboy who was eventually discharged from the military because she struggled to get along with others and couldn’t adjust to the military's restricted lifestyle. After a scandal that disrupted the social order back home, Kay is banished to a zoological research vessel, where he acts as curator. He struggles to prove himself, trying to earn his place in the order again so that he can end his exile and return to his normal life. But when it turns out that Jewel was abducted from home and placed in an alien zoo, with Kay as the only other being around, she questions his intentions.

Bob kann es nicht fassen. Eben hat er noch seine Software-Firma verkauft und einen Vertrag über das Einfrieren seines Körpers nach seinem Tod unterschrieben, da ist es auch schon vorbei mit ihm. Er wird beim Überqueren der Straße überfahren. Hundert Jahre später wacht Bob wieder auf, allerdings nicht als Mensch, sondern als Künstliche Intelligenz, die noch dazu Staatseigentum ist. Prompt bekommt er auch gleich seinen ersten Auftrag: Er soll neue bewohnbare Planeten finden. Versagt er, wird er abgeschaltet. Für Bob beginnt ein grandioses Abenteuer zwischen den Sternen - und ein gnadenloser Wettlauf gegen die Zeit.

Dante Slate survived treachery, but surviving isn’t enough. Not by a long shot. The Marauder wants revenge. He’s on the hunt with his new partner, master spy Nasreen Joelle, but those who saw fit to leave him for dead have powerful connections. What good is revenge if you can’t live to enjoy it? Dante has to practice patience and wait for the right time to make a poised strike. But that doesn’t mean he’s standing still, no sir. Revenge takes money and research.

In near-future Baltimore, scientific breakthroughs in genetic engineering promise to cure the incurable. But these new technologies are not without a dark side. Powerful criminal organizations thrive on peddling illicit genetic wares, waging an underground war unlike any the city has ever seen.

Высокопоставленный сотрудник ФСБ давно контролирует важную работу по изготовлению очень необычного лекарства, которое поддерживает силы, здоровье, продлевает молодость. Спрос рождает предложение: необходимо увеличить выпуск препарата. И для этого есть деньги – большие деньги, есть отработанные технологии, есть заинтересованные лица. Не хватает только сырья, сырья необычного – эмбрионов 25-недельных нерожденных младенцев.

A secret government program has developed a unique being from experiments with alien DNA and human embryos. This genetically enhanced being is known as GENE (Genetic Embryonic Nucleus Enhancement). But during the World Trade Center attacks, Gene has escaped – and is befriended by Butch of Texas. The US government mounts a nationwide search, but Butch does his best to hide Gene. With the help of Butch’s close friends, Gene avoids being captured by the government despite the government’s efforts of finding him.