Brin, David. Kiln People
In a dangerous future world in which disposable human duplicates fulfill every wish of their degenerate masters, investigator Albert Morris ventures into a shadowy world in search of a revolutionary discovery that could transform humankind. (Fic SF  Brin)

Bujold, Lois McMaster. Falling Free
Leo Graf is an effective engineer. Safety Regs aren't just the rule books he swears by, he'd helped write them. All that changes on his assignment to the Cay Habitat. Leo is profoundly uneasy with the corporate exploitation of his bright new students--'til that exploitation turns to something much worse. He has never anticipated a situation where the right thing to do is neither safe nor in the rules. (Fic SF  Bujold)

Card, Orson Scott. Ender's Game
veteran of years of simulated war games, Ender believes he is engaged in one more computer war game when in truth he is commanding the last fleet of Earth against an alien race seeking the complete destruction of Earth. (Fic SF  Card)

Cherryh, C. J. Cyteen
The powers-that-be on the capital world of Union clone the murdered power broker, scientist Ariane Emory, but the new, headstrong Ariane knows the plans of her would-be controllers. (Fic SF  Cherryh)

Clark, Mary Higgins. The Cradle Will Fall
A minor road accident lands county prosecutor Katie DeMaio in Westlake Hospital, and, that night, from her window, she thinks she saw a man load a woman's body into the trunk of a car...or was it just a sleeping pill-induced nightmare? (Fic M  Clark)

Clement, Peter. Critical Condition
Left completely paralyzed and speechless, a fully aware prisoner in her own body, Dr. Kathleen Sullivan falls victim to Dr. Tony Hamlin, Chief of Neurosurgery for a major Manhattan hospital, who subjects her to a series of sinister experiments. (Fic  Clement)

Cook, Robin. Shock
In exhange for a generous fee, two women have donated their eggs at a fertility clinic. Months later, the two women are still curious about what happened to those eggs. They disguise their appearance and get jobs at the clinic. What they uncover are experiments in cloning and a disturbing vision of the future. (Fic  Cook)

Crichton, Michael. Next
In a near-future world where biotechnology and genetic research has become big business, the discovery of several transgenic animals leads to a legal and ethical battle over the rights to genes that can be used for commercial purposes. (Fic  Crichton)

DeAngelis, Camille. Mary Modern
Frustrated by her unsuccessful attempts to become pregnant, genetic researcher Lucy Morrigan--living with her boyfriend in her family's crumbling old family mansion--successfully clones her grandmother from a blood stain on an old apron, but instead of a baby, she brings to life a twenty-two-year-old woman, confused by the modern world and by the remnants of lives she cannot remember. (Fic  DeAngelis)

Dantec, Maurice. Babylon Babies
In a near-future world plagued by war and disaster, Toroop, a mercenary, is given the perilous task of escorting a mysterious young woman from Russia to Canada, only to discover that his charge is no ordinary woman but instead is carrying a mutant embryo that could change the world. (Fic SF  Dantec)

Darnton, John. The Experiment
On a remote island off theSoutheastern coast, a young man named Skyler sees his friends vanish one by one. In a small New York town,a journalist observes a corpse with its fingerprints burned off. In New York City, an expert on twins stumblesupon a case that hits stunningly close to home for her. Soon, all three come together on the trail of a scientificexperiment more audacious than they could have conceived--and so secret that none of them may be allowed to survive. (Fic  Darnton)

Follett, Ken. The Third Twin
While doing research on twins and the genetic components of aggression, scientist Jeannie Ferrari stumbles upon a dangerous secret Cold War genetics experiment with ties to a deadly cabal of big business, right-wing politics, and her own university president. (Fic  Follett)

Gear, W. Michael. Raising Abel
When Veronica Tremain's brother is brutally murdered, both she and the FBI try to make sense of a bizarre conspiracy that seems to be targeting genetics professors--and one unusual child. (Fic  Gear)

Gerritsen, Tess. Harvest
A second-year resident on an elite cardiac transplant team becomes suspicious about where donor hearts are being harvested. (Fic  Gerritsen)

Hecht, Daniel. Puppets
The New Jersey State Police had started calling him Howdy Doody, after the famous TV puppet of the 1950s. Three people killed in northern New Jersey, then three in Manhattan and another in the Bronx, in a thirteen-month period. And all of them hung up with strings attached to their limbs, like puppets. Finally the murderer was caught in New York City. Or so it seemsÃ?--until State Police detective Mo Ford finds another victim, killed and arranged in exactly the same way. Is it a copycat crime, or did the police catch the wrong man? Mo's theory about what happened soon expands to involve U.S. intelligence agencies and a horrific experiment with human beings. With so many forces behind the scenes, who is the real puppet master? (Fic  Hecht)

Huxley, Aldous. Brave New World
Huxley's classic prophetic novel describes the socialized horrors of a futuristic utopia devoid of individual freedom. Through the most efficient scientific and psychological engineering, people are genetically designed to be passive and therefore consistently useful to the ruling class. (Fic  Huxley)

Ishiguro, Kazuo. Never Let Me Go
A reunion with two childhood friends--Ruth and Tommy--draws Kath and her companions on a nostalgic odyssey into the supposedly idyllic years of their lives at Hailsham, an isolated private school in the serene English countryside, and a dramatic confrontation with the truth about their childhoods and about their lives in the present. (Fic  Ishiguro)

Kent, Steve. The Clone Republic
Earth, 2508 A.D. Humans have spread across the six arms of the Milky Way Galaxy. The Unified Authority controls Earth's colonies with an iron fist and a powerful military-a military made up almost entirely of clones… Private first-class Wayson Harris was raised in a U.A. orphanage among thousands of clones born and bred to be the ultimate soldiers. But Harris isn't like the other Marines: he has a mind of his own. He figures he's paying for that independent streak when his first assignment out of boot camp is the smallest Marine outpost in the whole U.A. When a rogue general surfaces, the remote desert world Harris thought was a dead-end posting becomes anything but. Fighting off the general's raid gains Harris a promotion. But it also brings him to the attention of some unfriendly U.A. leaders. They have their own plans for the military-plans Harris disrupts by his very existence. For in an army of clones, the one unforgivable sin is to be different…  (Fic SF  Kent)

Krauss, Nicole. Man Walks into a Room
Found wandering in the desert outside of Las Vegas, Samson Greene, a thirty-six-year-old Columbia University English professor, is discovered to have a brain tumor, but when surgery removes the tumor, leaving him with no recollection of his life after the age of twelve, he finds himself struggling to deal with a life, and a wife, he no longer recognizes. (Fic  Krauss)

Kress, Nancy. Nothing Human
Early in the 21st century, global warming has caused sickness and death among plants, animals, and humans. Suddenly aliens contact and genetically modify a group of 14-year-olds, inviting them to visit their spacecraft. After several months of living among the aliens and studying genetics, the students discover that the aliens have been manipulating them and rebel. Upon their return to Earth, the girls in the group discover that they are pregnant and can only wonder what form their unborn children will take. Generations later, the offspring of these children seek to use their alien knowledge to change their genetic code, to allow them to live and prosper in an environment that is quickly becoming uninhabitable from the dual scourges of global warming and biowarfare. But after all the generations of change, will the genetically modified creatures resemble their ancestors, or will nothing human remain? (Fic SF  Kress)

Mathews, Adrian. Vienna Blood
Set in a future city, this tale of murder and corruption reaches back into Vienna's darkest past--Hitler's dream of a master race--to render a tale of human evil never fully conquered. (Fic SF  Mathews)

Morgan, Richard. Thirteen
The subject of a failed government experiment to produce a more deadly military warrior, Carl Marsalis is a hit man who has lost his taste for killing, but when he is arrested in Miami, government officials come up with a plan to use his talents to achieve their own ends. (Fic SF  Morgan)

Moriarty, Chris. Spin State
UN Peacekeeper Major Catherine Li hides her true identity as an illegal clone, until a perilous mission takes her back to her brutal planet of origin to investigate the death of a renowned scientist, Li's genetic twin. (Fic SF  Moriarty)

Nevins, Thomas. The Age of Conglomerates
Four individuals--an elderly couple deemed a burden to society and shipped to a government-run community in the Southwest; their granddaughter, head of genetic engineering at a New York medical center; and her sister, forced to live in the city underground--struggle to survive in a near-future America run by The Conglomerate in the wake of economic and social collapse. (Fic  Nevins)

Palmer, Michael. Extreme Measures
Young, talented, and ambitious, Dr. Eric Najarian is drawn to an elite clique of medical professionals at White Memorial Hospital, but not to their suddenly discovered, unspeakable crimes and their personal threats. (Fic  Palmer)

Palmer, Michael. The Fifth Vial
A suspended Harvard Medical School student is kidnapped and left for dead in Rio de Janeiro, while a terminally ill medical genius works on a potentially world-changing cure, and a Chicago detective struggles to identify a mysterious accident victim. (Fic  Palmer)

Pearson, Ridley. The Angel Maker
After discovering that a Seattle homeless woman received electroshock treatments, police psychologist Daphne Matthews teams up with her mentor, former police sergeant Lou Boldt, to investigate and uncovers a pattern of murder and mutilation. (Fic  Pearson)

Powers, Richard. Generosity: An Enhancement
Intrigued by an Algerian woman whose blissful demeanor contrasts with the horrific environment of her home country, Chicago teacher Russell Stone brings her to the attention of others who become equally entranced. (Fic  Powers)

Perdue, Lewis. Perfect Killer
Neurosurgeon Bradford Stone, after finding himself targeted by a presidential candidate who would use an experimental drug to transform soldiers into ruthless killers, tries to unravel the conspiracy behind the drug. (Fic  Perdue)

Shetterly, Will. Chimera
Zoe Domingo, part of a new genetically altered species designed to be sold as slaves, becomes a murder suspect when her abolitionist former owner is found murdered. (Fic SF  Shetterly)

Skloot, Floyd. Patient 002
At forty-one Sam is a successful, active, single father who contracts a virus that leaves him disabled, and when he offers to be a subject for a new drug, he finds love in an unexpected place. (Fic  Skloot)

Tucker, Lisa. The Cure for Modern Life
Matthew and Amelia were once in love and planning to raise a family together, but a decade later, they have become professional enemies. To Amelia, who has dedicated her life to medical ethics, Matthew’s job as a high-powered pharmaceutical executive has turned him into a heartless person who doesn’t care about anything but money. Now they’re kept in balance only by Matthew’s best and oldest friend, Ben, a rising science superstar - and Amelia’s new boyfriend. (Fic  Tucker)

Wager, Walter. Kelly's People
Espionage agent Denny Monroe and four of his colleagues are given the task of finding a shadowy international terrorist who possesses five suitcases of nuclear devices that he plans to unleash on the West. (Fic  Wager)

3/15/12
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