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. Young Fift is an only child of the Staid gender, struggling to maintain zir position in the system while developing a friendship with the acclaimed bioengineer Shria--a controversial...

The Keller family consists of five generations of firstborn daughters living in a secluded olive grove in the Sacramento Valley. Anna, the family matriarch, is 112 and rules Hill House, the family home she shares with her daughter Bets, granddaughter Callie, great-granddaughter Deb, and great-great-granddaughter Erin. Both Anna and Bets have caught the attention of a geneticist interested in revolutionizing the aging process for everyone. But Anna...

In the future, humans enriched with cockroach DNA dominate the planet. The old humans, fast-tracked for extinction, scurry to and from impoverished homes at the beck and call of the new elite, the magnates and managers that control all. The rich get richer. The poor get poorer. Capitalism thrives as labor unions are outlawed, and, soon, magnates, with antennae quivering, will face down those who do the work. The slow and the weak, the old and the...

After losing most of their siblings, Alex, Gus and Hell have no idea where to go next. Gus has left the Enhanced with Ty, his boyfriend, to try and find someone who can train him to use his magic. Alex has no idea what to do with what's left of her fractured team, and she's in love with a woman who doesn't want anything serious from her. And Hell is dreaming of dragons. They may be ahead in the fight, but that won't last. Especially if they can't...

Winning their freedom or losing everything. It all comes down to this. Mia may have taken down one of the Enhanced's biggest bases, but it means that the rebels are out of time. Using their secret weapon means that the Enhanced now know that they have it, and can start to defend against it. It's now or never to defeat them for good, but it means risking everything the rebels have fought so hard to gain. You'll love this final book in the ensemble...

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They've won their first battle, but the war has just begun. Now that Alex and her team have a base to work from, they have to turn their focus to defeating the Enhanced for good. The problem? Alex has no idea how to go about it, and she's not even sure why she should be in charge of it. But the Enhanced won't just leave them be, and if they want a chance to beat them, Alex will have to face her fears.

When an old rock hound stumbles across what appears to be the wreckage of a mysterious capsule or cargo pod in Death Valley at the height of the Cold War, a dozen government agencies scramble to unravel its secrets. Is it from a Soviet spy operation or another bungled domestic test like the Roswell fiasco? Frank Sartori, an Atomic Energy Commission physicist, sets out to find out for himself. Guided by map coordinates found on a small metallic disk...

They are Microserfs-six code-crunching computer whizzes who spend upward of sixteen hours a day "coding" and eating "flat" foods (food which, like Kraft singles, can be passed underneath closed doors) as they fearfully scan company e-mail to learn whether the great Bill is going to "flame" one of them. But now there's a chance to become innovators instead of cogs in the gargantuan Microsoft machine. The intrepid Microserfs are striking out on their...

This is the story of Nobel-winning genomicist Dr. Frieda Sengmeuller, who invents "age-decoding" – a genetic engineering method that stops human aging. When age-decoding is rolled out in the year 2053, corrupt Authority leaders secretly use CRSPR technology to remove peoples' "propensity to dissent". They fake Frieda's suicide, containing and tormenting her for two centuries as she is forced to research "reverse-aging". Frieda's daughter Ximena...