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The astonishing novel Brave New World, originally published in 1932, presents Aldous Huxley's vision of the future-of a world utterly transformed. Through the most efficient scientific and psychological engineering, people are genetically designed to be passive and therefore consistently useful to the ruling class. This powerful work of speculative fiction sheds a blazing critical light on the present and is considered to be Huxley's most enduring...

In a world where everyone is the same, Trigger 17 convinces Dahlia 16 that she is unique but this proves that both are flawed, which could lead to dire consequences for their entire genomes.

"'When they said all happy families are alike, I don't think this is what they meant...' Evelyn Caldwell's husband Nathan has been having an affair - with Evelyn Caldwell. Or, to be exact, with a genetically cloned replica. After a morning that begins with a confrontation and ends with Nathan's body bleeding out on the kitchen floor, the two Caldwell wives will have to think fast-before sharing everything includes sharing a jail cell. The Echo Wife...

"Noah Prime discovers he can exhibit the traits and access the abilities of animals and must use them to fight back against those who are hunting him"--

A scifi action/adventure where genetically engineered people herd schools of tuna using trained dolphins as herd dogs. Human traffickers have kidnapped one of the women and are on their way to sell her into slavery. But she has friends who aren't about to let the slavers get away with it. Now Tovio and Olga are on a desperate chase across the Pacific Ocean to save their friend.

Explores the benefits and concerns surrounding genetic engineering.

"He was a shadow, ever shifting and insinuating, able to blend in everywhere and anywhere. The elusive ideal conceived and created by the Genetics Council, he went by just as many names as he had identities--the last one being Gideon. Now calling himself Graeme, he hides in plain sight, terrifyingly close to his goal. A rogue Bengal Breed, he has loyalties to no one but himself. And he has a need for vengeance that surges hot and swift through his...

Gene editing allows doctors to add or remove genes to stop certain problems in the human body. As a new technology, gene is still in the early stages of research. It might one day help doctors treat or even cure many genetic diseases. Discover more in Gene Editing, a title in the STEM and the Human Body series.

Continues the story of Austrian Prince Alek who, in an alternate 1914 Europe, eludes the Germans by traveling in the Leviathan to Constantinople, where he faces a whole new kind of genetically engineered warships.

Describes genetic engineering as it is practiced today, and provides information about how genetic engineering can help the fight against sickness and famine.--