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1) Ender's game
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
Description
Once again, the Earth is under attack. An alien species is poised for a final assault. The survival of humanity depends on a military genius who can defeat the aliens. But who? Ender Wiggin is brilliant, ruthless, and cunning, a tactical and strategic master, and a child. Recruited for military training by the world government, Ender's childhood ends the moment he enters his new home: Battle School. How will Ender perform in real combat conditions?...
Author
Series
MaddAddam trilogy volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
Description
With the same stunning blend of prophecy and social satire she brought to her classic The Handmaid's Tale, Margaret Atwood gives us a keenly prescient novel about the future of humanity-and its present. Humanity here equals Snowman, and in Snowman's recollections Atwood re-creates a time much like our own, when a boy named Jimmy loved an elusive, damaged girl called Oryx and a sardonic genius called Crake. But now Snowman is alone, and as we learn...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.5 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Formats
Description
Originally published in 1932, Brave New World is one of the most revered and profound works of twentieth century literature. Touching on themes of control, humanity, technology, and influence, Aldous Huxley's enduring classic is a reflection and a warning of the age in which it was written, yet remains frighteningly relevant today. With its surreal imagery and otherworldly backdrop, Brave New World adapts beautifully to the graphic novel form. Fred...
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.
7) Wither
Author
Series
Chemical Garden trilogy volume 1
Publisher
Simon & Schuster BFYR
Pub. Date
c2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
After modern science turns every human into a genetic time bomb with men dying at age twenty-five and women dying at age twenty, girls are kidnapped and married off in order to repopulate the world.
Author
Pub. Date
2022
Language
English
Formats
Description
"An ordinary man undergoes a startling transformation--and fears that all of humanity may be next--in the mindblowing new thriller from the New York Times bestselling author of Dark Matter and Recursion Logan Ramsay can feel his brain... changing. And his body too. He's becoming something other than himself. Maybe even something other than human. As he sets out to discover who did this to him, and why, his transformation threatens everything--his...
10) Sever
Author
Series
Chemical Garden trilogy volume 3
Publisher
Simon & Schuster BFYR
Pub. Date
c2013
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
After modern science turns every human into a genetic time bomb with men dying at age twenty-five and women dying at age twenty, teenaged Rhine finds hope for a brighter future from a surprising source.
11) Fever
Author
Series
Chemical Garden trilogy volume 2
Publisher
Simon & Schuster BFYR
Pub. Date
c2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
In a future where genetic engineering has cured humanity of all diseases and defects but has also produced a virus that kills all females by age twenty and all males by the age twenty-five, teenaged Rhine escapes her forced marriage and journeys back to New York to find her twin brother.
12) Toys
Author
Publisher
[Manufactured and distributed by] Findaway World, LLC
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
Hays and Lizabeth Baker are Elites, genetically enhanced beings with the perfect lives. However, when a turn of events plunges Hays into a desperate quest to save the human race, the Barker family might never be the same again.
Author
Publisher
Baen Books
Pub. Date
2001, c1975
Language
English
Description
Hamilton Felix, the product of a three-hundred-year program of controlled genetics, is bored by his life and the contrived world in which he lives, but things start to get more interesting after he is recruited by a group of revolutionaries.
14) Dawn
Author
Series
Xenogenesis series volume 1
Publisher
Aspect
Pub. Date
[1997]
Language
English
Description
All of humanity must share the world with uncanny, unimaginable alien creatures after war destroys Earth.
15) The rush's edge
Author
Publisher
Angry Robot
Pub. Date
2020
Language
English
Description
With the help of his commanding officer, a genetically engineered ex-soldier fights back against the government that created him and others like him to be expendable slaves.
Author
Series
Halo series. Standalone novels volume 6
Publisher
Tor
Pub. Date
2008
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Description
In the first, desperate days of the Human-Covenant War, the UNSC has enacted the Cole Protocol to safeguard Earth and its Inner Colonies from discovery by a merciless alien foe. When the Prophets send their best---an ambitious and ruthless Elite--to destroy the the Outer Colonies and acquire the location of Earth, a three-man renegade squad led by Navy Lieutenant Jacob Keyes fights to hold together a shaky alliance between human survivors and the...
Author
Publisher
Tordotcom/Tor Publishing Group
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"When you bring back a long-extinct species, there's more to success than the DNA. Moscow has resurrected the mammoth. But someone must teach them how to be mammoths, or they are doomed to die out, again. The late Dr. Damira Khismatullina, the world's foremost expert in elephant behavior, is called in to help. While she was murdered a year ago, her digitized consciousness is uploaded into the brain of a mammoth. Can she help the magnificent creatures...
20) Invasive
Author
Series
Zer0s volume 2
Publisher
Harper Voyager, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
On the isolated Kolohe Atoll in the middle of the Pacific ocean, a charismatic billionaire employs a team of scientists to conduct cutting-edge research that he hopes will change the world. In a cabin on a remote lake in the Adirondacks, FBI futurist Hannah Stander finds a barely recognizable human body, which appears to have been skinned alive by thousands of genetically engineered ants. Hannah's investigation leads to Kolohe, where the scientists...
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