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The Only Ones

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Edenborn

Nick Sagan Β· 311 pages

In the wake of the microbial plague that decimated the world, the bioengineered children of Idlewild have spent the last eighteen years raising the next generation to inherit the Earth-a generation both human and post-human, divided into factions by the genetics used to create them. But as the factions clash over the future of humanity, an even deadlier contagion rises from the ashes of the origin

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True Born

L.E. Sterling Β· 304 pages

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Fragments

Dan Wells Β· 564 pages

**KIRA WALKER HAS FOUND THE CURE** for RM, but the battle for the survivial of humans and Partials is just beginning. Kira has left East Meadow in a desperate search for clues to who she is. That the Partials themselves hold the cure for RM in their blood cannot be a coincidence--it must be part of a large plan, a plan that involves Kira, a plan that could save both races. Her companions are Afa D

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The Windup Girl

Paolo Bacigalupi Β· 365 pages

What Happens when bio-terrorism becomes a tool for corporate profits? And what happens when said bio-terrorism forces humanity to the cusp of post-human evolution? In The Windup Girl, award-winning author Paolo Bacigalupi returns to the world of "The Calorie Man"( Theodore Sturgeon Memorial Award-winner, Hugo Award nominee, 2006) and "Yellow Card Man" (Hugo Award nominee, 2007) in order to address

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Chosen Ones

Tiffany Truitt Β· 400 pages

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The Twelve

Justin Cronin Β· 624 pages

The great viral plague had left a small group of survivors clinging to life amidst a world transformed into a nightmare. Led by the mysterious, charismatic Amy, they go on the attack, leading an insurrection against the virals--the first offensives of the Second Viral War--infiltrating a dozen hives, each presided over by one of the original Twelve. Their secret weapon: Alicia, transformed at the

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Never Let Me Go

Kazuo Ishiguro Β· 288 pages

Ishiguro explores what it means to have a soul and how art distinguishes man from other life forms. But above all, *Never Let Me Go* is a study of friendship and the bonds we form which make or break while we come of age.

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Behemoth: Seppuku

Peter Watts Β· 303 pages

Hiding out with her fellow cyborgs and their surviving creators for five years, Lenie Clarke is horrified when they are discovered by the doomsday microbe Behemoth, a situation that forces Lenie to take responsibility for her role in billions of deaths.

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The Similars

Rebecca Hanover Β· 386 pages

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The Year of the Flood

Margaret Atwood Β· 441 pages

The long-awaited new novel from Margaret Atwood. The Year of the Flood is a dystopic masterpiece and a testament to her visionary power. The times and species have been changing at a rapid rate, and the social compact is wearing as thin as environmental stability. Adam One, the kindly leader of the God's Gardeners--a religion devoted to the melding of science and religion, as well as the prese

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Plague Zone

Jeff Carlson Β· 318 pages

"First Earth was devastated by the machine plague, a runaway nanotechnology that devoured all warm-blooded organisms below altitudes of ten thousand feet. Then the remnants of humankind turned on one another, provoking a brief, furious world war and the invasion of North America. Now Russian and Chinese armies hold California against the battered forces of the U.S.-Canadian Alliance. Nanotech rese

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Synthetic Men of Mars

Edgar Rice Burroughs Β· 192 pages

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White Horse

Alex Adams Β· 337 pages

When I wake the world is gone. Only fragments remain. And then I remember ... Then: Her life may have taken a couple of wrong turns but thirty-year-old Zoe is trying to make the best of what she has. A part time cleaning job to pay for college, a weekly appointment with her therapist to straighten out the problems in her life. The same problems that any thirty-year-old girl would have. Nothing maj

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Mary Modern

Camille DeAngelis Β· 350 pages

"Lucy Morrigan, a young genetic researcher, lives with her boyfriend, Gray, and an odd collection of tenants in her crumbling family mansion. Surrounded by four generations of clothes, photographs, furniture, and other remnants of past lives, Lucy and Gray s home life is strangely out of touch with the modern world -- except for Lucy s high-tech lab in the basement. Frustrated by her unsuccessful

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Perfect Girls

Marilyn Kaye Β· 156 pages

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Blackout

Mira Grant Β· 659 pages

In 2041, Georgia Mason, held hostage by a team of CDC researchers, must find her way back to Shaun Mason, who is dealing with his own problems, such as zombie bears, mad scientists and rogue government agencies, before things get worse in her post-zombie, post-resurrection America.

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Michael Grant

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Eve

Anna Carey

Where do you go when nowhere is safe? Sixteen years after a deadly virus wiped out most of Earth's population, the world is a perilous place. Eighteen-year-old Eve has never been beyond the heavily guarded perimeter of her school, where she and two hundred other orphaned girls have been promised a future as the teachers and artists of the New America. But the night before graduation, Eve learns

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Alien Resurrection

A.C. Crispin, Kathleen O'Malley, Joss Whedon Β· 276 pages

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Salt Fish Girl: A Novel

Larissa Lai Β· 269 pages

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Max

James Patterson Β· 250 pages

Don't wait for Maximum Ride to hit the big screen - prepare for takeoff now with the flock's highest-flying adventure ever. **When the planet faced destruction, they saved it.** Max and the flock have traded in Antarctica's subzero temperatures for sunny Los Angeles, where they're taking over the skies with their hair raising air show. But far below, a deadly assassin watches their every mo

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Chapterhouse: Dune

Frank Herbert Β· 464 pages

The desert planet Arrakis, called Dune, has been destroyed. Now the Bene Gesserit, heirs to Dune's powers, have colonized a green world and are turning it into a desert, mile by scorched mile.

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Ringer

Lauren Oliver Β· 265 pages

In a book that invites readers to start at either end or alternate between perspectives, Lyra and Caelum struggle in the world outside of the Haven Institute, while Gemma and her boyfriend Pete try to stop her father's plans for the replicas, but are mistaken for escapees and brought to a secret facility.

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