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p2004
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The thrilling new novel in the bestselling Covert-One series. The previous Covert-One audio book, Robert Ludlum's The Altman Code, spent three months on the Publishers Weekly Audio Bestseller list. In the increasingly turbulent atmosphere of international politics, the once-grassroots anti-globalization movement has been slowly absorbed and taken over by the underground radical anti-technology group fronted by the mysterious figure known only as Lazarus....
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The war against humanity is raging. As the small town of Rainbow Falls, Montana, comes under siege, scattered survivors come together to weather the onslaught of the creatures set loose upon the world. As they ready for battle against overwhelming odds, they will learn the full scope of Victor Frankenstein's nihilistic plan to remake the future-and the terrifying reach of his shadowy, powerful supporters. Now the good will make their last, best stand....
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Frankenstein series volume 4
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.6 - AR Pts: 14
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A twist on the tale of ambition and science gone wrong, with the trappings of modern science.
26) Plague Zone
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2009
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"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 researcher Ruth Goldman and Cam Najarro--a former Army...
27) The punch escrow
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[2017]
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"It's the year 2147. Advancements in nanotechnology have enabled us to control aging. We've genetically engineered mosquitoes to feast on carbon fumes instead of blood, ending air pollution. And teleportation has become the ideal mode of transportation, offered exclusively by International Transport--the world's most powerful corporation, in a world controlled by corporations. Joel Byram spends his days training artificial-intelligence engines to...
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2016.
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Cybernetics. Neuroscience. Nanotechnolgy. Genetic engineering. Hacktivism. Transhumanism. The world of tomorrow is already here, and the technological changes we all face have inspired a new wave of stories to address our fears, hope, dreams, and desires as Homo sapiens evolve -- or not -- into their next incarnation. This book presents twenty diverse tales of humanity's tomorrow as told by some of today's most gripping science fiction visionaries....
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2011
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Three men are found dead in a Honolulu building. The only clue left behind is a tiny robot, nearly invisible to the human eye. In Cambridge, Massachusetts, seven graduate students are recruited and dispatched to a mysterious lab in Hawaii, where they are promised access to tools that will open a whole new scientific frontier. But once in the Oahu rain forest, the scientists are thrust into a hostile wilderness that reveals profound and surprising...
30) Lost souls
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Frankenstein series volume 4
Pub. Date
p2010
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Koontz puts a singular twist on Frankenstein, the classic tale of ambition and science gone wrong, and develops a new story of the line that separates humanity from inhumanity. Victor Leben, once Frankenstein, has not only seen the future, he's ready to populate it. Using stem cells, organic silicon circuitry, and nanotechnology, he will engender a race of superhumans. Now, it is up to five individuals to stop him and save humanity.