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Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
Description
From the Booker Prize-winning author of The Remains of the Day and When We Were Orphans, comes an unforgettable edge-of-your-seat mystery that is at once heartbreakingly tender and morally courageous about what it means to be human. Hailsham seems like a pleasant English boarding school, far from the influences of the city. Its students are well tended and supported, trained in art and literature, and become just the sort of people the world wants...
Author
Series
Old Man's War universe volume 2
Publisher
Tor
Pub. Date
2006
Language
English
Description
When humanity is threatened by an alliance of three adversarial races who would halt the world's expansion into space, Jared Dirac, a super-power clone, tries to discover why the scientist who gave him his DNA has revealed key military secrets.
4) Beta
Author
Series
Annex novels volume 1
Publisher
Hyperion
Pub. Date
c2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
"On a futuristic island paradise where humans are served by enslaved clones, a sixteen-year-old clone named Elysia seeks her own freedom"-- provided by publisher.
5) Regenesis
Author
Series
Publisher
DAW Books
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
Description
Regenesis continues the story of Ariane Emory PR, the genetic clone of one of the greatest scientists humanity has ever produced, and of her search for the murderer of her progenitor--the original Ariane Emory.
7) Shock
Author
Publisher
G. P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
2000
Language
English
Description
To earn some extra money, Deborah Cochrane and Joanna Meissner, two financially strapped graduate students, become involved with a Boston fertility clinic in search of egg donors, but they become suspicious about the clinic and its head, Dr. Spencer Windgate, and risk their lives to uncover the truth.
12) The Chimera code
Author
Publisher
Solaris
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
Everything's for hire. Even magic. If you need something done, they're the best: a tough, resourceful mage, a lab-created genderless hacker and a cyborg with a big gun. But when they're hired by a virtual construct to destroy the other copies of himself, and the down payment is a new magical skill, Cloke knows this job is going to be a league harder than anything she's ever done.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 17
Language
English
Description
On an island off Costa Rica there exists a hush-hush colony of giant animals which attracts the attention of two expeditions. The first one, including children, is led by a paleontologist, the other is made up of evil scientists who want to do experiments. The animals rout both without much concern for their motives.
14) The sentient
Author
Publisher
Flame Tree Press
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"Amira Valdez is a brilliant neuroscientist trying to put her past on a religious compound behind her. But when she's assigned to a controversial cloning project, her dreams of working in space are placed in jeopardy. Using her talents as a reader of memories, Amira uncovers a conspiracy to stop the creation of the first human clone - at all costs. As she unravels the mystery, Amira navigates a dangerous world populated by anti-cloning militants,...
Series
Publisher
Mai tian chu ban/cheng bang wen hua shi ye gu fen you xian gong si
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
中文(繁體)
Description
"Henry Brogan is an elite assassin who becomes the target of a mysterious operative who can seemingly predict his every move. To his horror, he soon learns that the man who's trying to kill him is a younger, faster, cloned version of himself. This is the official novelization of the hotly anticipated Gemini Man, the latest film from Academy Award winning director Ang Lee."--
Author
Series
Borrowed man volume 2
Publisher
Tor
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
Hundreds of years in the future, there are pockets of civilization, and humans are few. There is advanced technology to sustain us. There are robots to do the heavy lifting. And there are reclones. E. A. Smithe is a borrowed person, his personality an uploaded recording of a deceased mystery writer. Smithe is the property of the library system, not a legal human. As such, Smithe can be loaned to other branches. Which he is. Along with two fellow reclones,...
17) The echo wife
Author
Publisher
Tor
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"'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...
18) A borrowed man
Author
Series
Borrowed man volume 1
Publisher
Tor
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
"A Borrowed Man: a new science fiction novel, from Gene Wolf, the celebrated author of the Book of the New Sun series. It is perhaps a hundred years in the future, our civilization is gone, and another is in place in North America, but it retains many familiar things and structures. Although the population is now small, there is advanced technology, there are robots, and there are clones. E. A. Smithe is a borrowed person. He is a clone who lives...
19) My murder
Author
Publisher
Riverhead Books
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"A tautly paced novel in which a young mother who was cloned and brought back to life following her own murder comes to suspect that there is more to the story of her life and death than anyone is telling her. What if the murder you had to solve was your own? Lou is a happily married mother of an adorable toddler. She's also the clone of the original Louise who, along with four other victims of a local serial killer, has been brought back to life...
20) Noumenon
Author
Series
Noumenon volume 1
Publisher
Harper Voyager, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
With nods to Arthur C. Clarke's Rama series and the real science of Neal Stephenson's Seveneves, a touch of Hugh Howey's Wool, and echoes of Octavia Butler's voice, a powerful tale of space travel, adventure, discovery, and humanity that unfolds through a series of generational vignettes. In 2088, humankind is at last ready to explore beyond Earth's solar system. But one uncertainty remains: Where do we go? Astrophysicist Reggie Straifer has an idea....
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