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82) The Greasers
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The 1970s. Austin, Texas. In which two Mexican brothers from South Tejas move to Austin to seek a degree from the famous University of Texas. While there, they become radically sensitive to the separation of "whites" and browns" in the overall scheme of things. Finally, the younger of the two brothers decides to do something about it. He travels deep into Mexico and locates an ancient and most unusual formula. Once he has tried it out for himself,...
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LA CLONACIÓN ES EL NEGOCIO DEL FUTURO.
Un laboratorio sin escrúpulos ha creado una peligrosa loción capaz de convertirte en la persona que siempre soñaste.
ReNacimiento. Puedes elegir la apariencia que desees de un catálogo de seres humanos y a cambio solo debes permitir que reescriban tu ADN para siempre. Pero no hay una sola cosa que la humanidad no pueda convertir en un arma. Y este sueño de vanidad muy pronto desatará el mismísimo fin...
85) B4earth
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In the year 2051, shallow-space NATO rail guns launched an unprovoked attack on the planet Earth, on every nation except America. Genocidal tsunamis sucked bullions of people into the seas. Asteroid ash from surface targets ensured an ice age. The world was quick to notice America hadn't been targeted. The less forward-thinking countries rained 7,500 nuclear missiles on North America, rendering it a glowing wasteland, essentially for eternity.
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I am the Lawman. Below is my creed. Like a religious creed, it is chanted, so I remember, in exacting detail, everything I believed. All my actions.
I once had two milliseconds of love. Then they were removed from me. I can most assuredly attest that it's not better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all. Love fueled my excruciating anger. And then anger's loyal bedfellow. Revenge. Love turned me into a hate-fueled monster. To the...
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Clonación, cultivo de órganos, modificación genética, estrategias anti-envejecimiento, biología sintética, inteligencia artificial... estos son algunos de los territorios más sorprendentes y polémicos de la investigación científica actual.
Cómo será el mundo en el siglo XXI lo van a determinar en gran parte estos avances científicos y Juan Llopis nos presenta uno de los posibles escenarios, demostrando conocer en detalle tanto los fundamentos...
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What exactly is the perfect life? What would you do with the power to change the world? What would you do to build a better humanity? Be careful what you wish for because there have been men that's wished for change and got what they asked for.
Werewolves, grave robberies, advanced robots, and crime run amok in the small town of Edsburg, and one man is determined to bring peace to his town, Sheriff Bill Lewis. Dr. Theodore Stein, the world's most...
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Lieutenant Bill Davis finally retired from the fire rescue services. He had the necessary time on the job, but really considered himself too young to retire. Unfortunately, his body was telling him otherwise. Not long after, he felt the changes begin. They were minor at first but progressed to more and more obvious signs of a progressive (and massive) change. He and his wife became worried, and when they sought medical help, they were surprised by...
91) Reading the Wind
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A "gripping" sci-fi fantasy, "distinctive characterizations remain complex and depictions of both [planet] worlds are exceptional. A welcome follow-up" (Booklist).
From the Endeavor Award–winning author of The Silver Ship and the Sea
The colony planet of Fremont was supposed to be free of all genetically altered beings-a new home for a pure race. So when six genetically altered children were abandoned on Fremont, they found themselves...
92) Prodigy: A Novel
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A thriller set in the future at an ultra-elite prep school that asks: what is the price of perfection?
In the year 2036, the world's best boarding school is the Stansbury School. The students, better known as specimens, are screened at a young age and then given twelve years of the finest education - and developmental drug regiment -available.
Stansbury graduates - physically and mentally - are in a class all by themselves. Four out of five go on...
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Synthetic Life: A Comprehensive Guide to Creating Single-Cell Organisms was crafted as a hypothetical creation designed for illustrative purposes. In the development of this concept, no specific authors or their works were utilized to generate the content. The names and affiliations presented are entirely fictional, serving the sole purpose of illustrating the diverse expertise that could contribute to the comprehensive nature of a guide on synthetic...
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Beyond The Comfort Zone is a love story caught in the near future, where a powerful computer controls all the population by how people have lived adventures of history by radio, movies, books and TV of others, than adventures of their own lives. The people now live by programs, by the computer of themselves in holographs of doing whatever they want to see themselves as. They no longer mingle with others but stay in their own comfort zone. Two People...
95) John's Eyes
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John's eyes were, manufactured with the purpose of providing sight to those, who have lost it. Equipped with the ability to learn, the eyes develop a sense of responsibility for ensuring John's happiness. John's eyes strive to please and, with the power to enhance everything he sees, they soon realize that they are also able, to manipulate what he sees. With a skewed sense of emotional intelligence, combined with unquestioning loyalty to their master,...
96) Wrath
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New York Times bestselling coauthors Shäron Moalem and Daniel Kraus's terrifying sci-fi horror thriller takes place in a future that is much nearer than you think. It is a world where scientific experimentation is exploited for commercial profit and under-supervised cutting-edge technology creates a menace that threatens the very fabric of our existence.
Wrath is the story of Sammy, a lab rat instilled with human genes whose supersized intelligence...
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As a young girl, Portia Oakeshott dreamed of caring for the reconstructed dinosaurs roaming the preserve near the south pole of her home planet, New New South Wales. Today, caring for dinosaurs means tending to a female Minmi-a minnie-mindlessly tending a clutch of eggs smashed and devoured by an unknown predator. Back at base, caring for dinosaurs means identifying the predator. Before it wreaks more havoc on the fragile ecosystem of the preserve....
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Joining a boyband gave Tyler everything he ever dreamed of. A close-knit group of friends, the chance to model a beautiful masculinity, and a vocal implant that lets him sing even better than he did before transitioning. But, deep on tour, Tyler realizes he wants more from one of his bandmates, yearns for a love that would never fit the image that has been carefully crafted for him. His manager wants him to be the heartthrob: available, wholesome,...
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The end of the world came and went.
Twenty-years later, humanity is, crafting new and secretive ways to protect itself, but the atmosphere stays clear of threats...Eighteen-year-old academy graduate Alyssa is determined to start her military career as a GENE (Genetically Enhanced Entity) on her own terms. But, after being transferred from her native London to America, she struggles to control her powers and find her place among a military unit of...
100) Consciencia
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En un futuro en el que la humanidad ha tenido que reorganizarse para sobrevivir después de una catástrofe ecológica, comprar la inmortalidad es posible, traspasando la consciencia de la persona a un sistema informático al morir. Laura Verns decide que, una vez muerta, tendrá una de estas "vidas de continuación" por tiempo indefinido, en los sistemas de una de las empresas que ofrecen este servicio. Pero, veinte años después de su deceso...
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