Genetic Engineering

From the bestselling author of Lost in Time and Quantum Radio comes a new mind-bending thriller: a group of strangers with tinnitus begins seeing numbers—numbers they soon realize are a code that will change the world.

One woman is called upon to rebuild the future of humankind after a nuclear war, in this revelatory post-apocalyptic tale from the award-winning author of Parable of the Sower. When Lilith lyapo wakes from a centuries-long sleep, she finds herself aboard the vast spaceship of the Oankali. She...

On the 75th anniversary of its publication, this outstanding work of literature is more crucial and relevant today than ever before....

On his thirty-sixth birthday, Travis Cornell hikes into the foothills of the Santa Ana Mountains. But his path is soon blocked by a bedraggled Golden Retriever who will let him go no further into the dark woods....

Boredom was killing Jay, not in a dramatic way, but in the life of stifled potential way. He wanted more out of life. Then, without any warning, he found himself part of an experiment with not even so much as the courtesy of a "how do you do? ". It wasn't really all bad, though.

***Over 1M Copies Sold!*** Now on Netflix! The USA Today bestseller A Wall Street Journal Best Science Fiction Book of 2018 “Just try to put this gripping thriller down once you pick it up.” —AARP “A shock on every other page.” —Wall Street Journal How far would you go to find The...

2020 THRILLER/SUSPENSE AUDIE AWARD WINNER! Now an MGM+ Original Series! From #1 New York Times bestselling author Stephen King, the most riveting and unforgettable story of kids confronting evil since It. “This is King at his best” (St. Louis Post-Dispatch). In the middle of the night, in a...

NOBEL PRIZE WINNER From the acclaimed, bestselling author of The Remains of the Day comes “a Gothic tour de force" (The New York Times) with an extraordinary twist—a moving, suspenseful, beautifully atmospheric modern classic. One of The New York Times’s 10 Best Books of the 21st...

What if marriage was the law? Dare you disobey? Black Mirror meets thriller with a dash of Naomi Alderman’s The Power in this dark, high-concept novel by the bestselling author of The One, now available as an expanded edition. Britain. The near-future. A right-wing government believes it has...

The acclaimed national bestseller that is “old-school horror at its best” (Stephen King) follows a scout troop as it is unexpectedly caught up in an isolating and utterly terrifying fight for their lives. Once every year, Scoutmaster Tim Riggs leads a troop of boys into the Canadian...

Legion Varus assaults an alien stronghold that's too close to Mother Earth. The battle turns into a meat grinder that chews through soldiers faster than revival machines can spit them out again. Centurion James McGill must defeat the Demons and their minions before it's too late.

A catastrophic event renders the earth a ticking time bomb. In a feverish race against the inevitable, nations around the globe band together to devise an ambitious plan to ensure the survival of humanity far beyond our atmosphere, in outer space....

A bio-engineered dog fights for its life and its right to life....

Master storyteller Stephen King presents the classic #1 New York Times bestselling thriller, “his highest Fahrenheit reading yet” (Time). Andy McGee and Vicky Tomlinson were once college students looking to make some extra cash, volunteering as test subjects for an experiment orchestrated by...

After a long, perilous journey, Hell Divers Xavier Rodriguez and Magnolia Katib discover the Metal Islands, a sunny, habitable zone where thousands of people live by fishing and farming. But this "paradise" is really a violent warrior society ruled by the cannibal King el Pulpo....

In the city of Queen Mab, nothing is quite as it seems. Pariah, spy and Inquisitorial agent Alizebeth Bequin is all of these things and yet none of them. An enigma, even to herself, she is caught between Inquisitors Gregor Eisenhorn and Gideon Ravenor....

Left to die on a volcanic world by the Skrull, McGill and his mercenaries face waves of missile attacks with nowhere to hide. When the Skrull seal themselves inside an impenetrable energy dome, McGill knows he has to get creative.

Now experience where the hit movie from Academy Award-winning director Bong Joon Ho, starring Robert Pattinson, started in Mickey7 (the inspiration for the film Mickey 17). Dying isn’t any fun…but at least it’s a living. Mickey Barnes is an Expendable: a disposable employee on a human...

Monsters of Ohio is a heartfelt exploration of a tentacular solution to the struggles of the modern world from the New York Times bestselling author of Starter Villain.

From the award-winning author of Parable of the Sower:After the near-extinction of the human race, one young man with extraordinary gifts will reveal whether the human race can learn from its past and rebuild their future . . . or is doomed to self-destruction. In the future, nuclear war has...

After a long and bloody battle, legendary Hell Diver Xavier Rodriguez reigns as the dutiful but reluctant new king of the islands. Advised by a council of former sky citizens as well as Cazadores, he works to assimilate the two societies peacefully....

From the acclaimed author of the Earthseed series, a young woman harnesses the power of a viral mutation and challenges the ruthless man who controls her—at the expense of the human race. This deluxe edition includes: A new cover and package Premium French flaps and newly designed, full-color...

Desperate to solve a global food shortage, ExoGen scientist Dr. Ella Masse oversees the creation and release of RC-714, a gene that unlocks millions of years of adaptation and evolution, allowing crops to use long dormant junk DNA to rapidly adapt to any environment....

The super solar storm wasn’t supposed to hit Earth—the odds were against it. And yet it did, and everything changed....

In picturesque Moonlight Cove, California, inexplicable deaths occur, and spine-tingling terror descends to this "edge of paradise"....

Humanity chose to suffer. The alternative was extinction. When genetic engineering nearly doomed the species, humanity made a desperate bargain: let the frontier do what nature intended. Harsh colony worlds. Brutal selection. Children dying on planets designed to test them. Two centuries later, the Mandate has kept humanity alive, but at a price no one is allowed to question. Cadet Constantine Ramsey questions it anyway. As a frontier colonist at Earth's Space Fleet Academy, Constantine keeps flinching at the hard calls, and finds himself being outperformed by the cadets who don't. Then ...

The year is 2381. The place is Urban Monad 116 of the constellation Chippitts. The population of this one-thousand storey super-structure is 800,000+ and always growing. After two centuries of ruthless, selective breeding, the essence of life is to be blessworthy and to multiply; to afford one's neighbours any type of sexual fulfilment and, above all, to avoid the evil of frustration. But, within this seemingly blissful vertical world there are individuals who feel such perverse desires as a longing for privacy, a wish to descend from the heights, to walk on earth and bask in the sunshine.

The debut standalone novel from author Edward Ashton, author of Mickey7, THREE DAYS IN APRIL is a near-future speculative thriller that marks the entry of a bright new voice into the genre. Anders Jensen is having a bad month. His roommate is a data thief, his girlfriend picks fights in bars...

I went looking for a cure. I found a nine-foot barbarian who decided I was his. Solaris was supposed to be safe—a shining city sealed against the frozen wasteland. Then my mother died begging for treatment the Clergy refused to give. So I ran into the ice to find the truth. Instead, I nearly froze to death… and woke in the arms of a frost-skinned warrior carved from winter itself. Karth is bound to a brutal trial. Until he kills the legendary beast stalking his people, he cannot take a mate. But he can still touch me. Still mark me. Still make sure every warrior knows I belong to him. ...

In den gefährlichen Weiten des gesetzlosen Raumsektors verbirgt ein Geisterschiff ein finsteres Geheimnis. Seine Decks, die einst voller Leben waren, sind nun unheimlich still. Die einzigen Überlebenden gehören zu einer angeblich ausgestorbenen Alien-Rasse, den Zephyrs.

The woman in Makenzie Cole's bathroom mirror is wearing different clothes. It starts small. A hair part on the wrong side. A ring on a bare finger. Makenzie is a forensic psychologist — she knows what it looks like when a mind begins to break down, and she knows how to explain away the inexplicable. She is tired. She is stressed. She is wrong. On the third morning, the woman in the mirror is wearing bruises. Then the phone rings. A man's voice, measured and unhurried, tells her the woman in the glass is real. That she was taken three days ago. That she has Makenzie's face because she was ...

Something was buried in the ice. Now it’s awake. Cole Maddox knows the mountains. As a wilderness guide, he respects the cold, the terrain, and the storms. But he has never seen anything like the facility hidden in the deep valley of the Timberline. Hired to escort a team of investors and scientists into the frozen wild, Cole thinks it’s just another high-paying babysitting job. He’s wrong. Inside the compound, a disgraced geneticist has achieved the impossible. He hasn’t just cloned a fossil; he has resurrected an apex predator that evolution tried to erase. A hunter designed for ...

Ada lives a solitary life. She spends her days in her London apartment building’s swimming pool, occasionally visiting with her cousin Francesca and meeting her friends, each of them chatting, drinking, posing invitations Ada ignores. Ada's parents are recently divorced after her father became a bodybuilder: he spends his days at the gym, which is crowded and bright, warm with human proximity, infrequently calling to express minor concerns around his daughter's well-being...

The world ended long ago. But its secrets did not. Millions of years after life on Earth has vanished, a team of alien archaeologists lands on a dead and silent planet beneath a dying sun. What they expect to find are the broken remains of a lost civilization. What they uncover is far stranger. Buried beneath red dust and stone lie endless rows of tiny wire chambers, vast processing halls, sealed military vaults, medical archives, fuel reserves, launch records, and the fossilized remains of millions upon millions of birds. At first, the evidence suggests a planet once ruled by these small ...

She stole the wrong thing from the wrong vault. Now reality has a user interface—and a mega-corporation wants it back. Zyla Voslin is a ghost. A data-thief who survives in the neon-soaked megacity of Xylos by stealing corporate secrets and trusting no one. When she lifts a crystalline shard from Omni-Core's most secure vault, she expects a payday. What she gets is the end of the world as anyone knew it. The moment she touches the artifact, the sky glitches. The laws of physics flicker. And eight million people receive the same notification: Welcome, User. System Initializing. The Shard ...

Two brothers—one an engineer and one an artist of sound and color—develop a revolutionary biotech that will reshape the human experience, in both how we create cities and how we enhance personal performance. Together, with the help of their partners and a community of true believers, they dare to re-engineer and re-imagine life and what’s next.

In 2075, humanity solves aging. Then everything begins to unravel. PSV Medical Labs has extended the human lifespan by twenty-five years, transforming society — for those who can afford it. Governments stabilize. Corporations consolidate power. The wealthy grow younger. The poor grow restless. Then a quiet junior scientist named Dean discovers something impossible. By altering mitochondrial energy at the cellular level, he doesn’t just slow aging. He reverses it. His breakthrough could free humanity from biological decline. Or lock the powerful into eternal rule. When Dean disappears ...

He was engineered to be a lethal weapon. She just needed a place to survive the storm. Sophie Sutton has lost everything: her corporate job, her London apartment, and the last exhausting shreds of her family's conditional approval. Her only lifeline is a sudden inheritance—half of a highly secured, climate-controlled estate in the remote Scottish Highlands. But when she arrives in the middle of a blinding, brutal blizzard, she discovers her new sanctuary is already occupied. Matthew Croft is not a man. He is a heavily armored, venomous scorpion-hybrid, engineered by a ruthless medical ...

In the crimson twilight of a dying world, an ancient civilization faces oblivion.On Mars, once a thriving cradle of advanced life, the skies bleed red as the sun fades, oceans vanish, and the atmosphere thins to nothing. The Martians—elegant, elongated beings of profound wisdom—have charted their fate with unerring precision: extinction is inevitable. Yet in their final days, they refuse to let consciousness vanish into the void.From crystalline spires and bio-luminescent cities now crumbling to dust, a desperate council convenes. They conceive an audacious legacy: the Seed of Life ...

Deep underground in Cyber World, in Neon City, Jake Mercer is a cyberpunk and evopunk modified human living outside of the cyber city's range of permissible human mods. But like most in Cyber World, Jake does not augment himself just for thrills. Humanity has survived undead apocalypses and other cataclysms time and time again, and those like Jake do not want to be among those that perish in these events. It's only a matter of time before more zombies or an authoritarian artificial super intelligence (ASI) tries to wipe out humanity. And it seems the next apocalypse is well on the way...

In the tenth installment of Zombie Chronicles, part of J.J.F. Reibel's Apocalypse, J has walked through savage domain after savage domain and through the wastelandz of the post-apocalyptic world, and now, the greatest threats he will ever face will come for not just him, but for the entire world. The Apexes are back. And that's just the start.

The ocean didn’t just swallow the world—it forced us to evolve. In the submerged mega-city of The Shallows, humanity hangs on by a thread of rusted steel and bio-engineering. For Calistya, a "groundwalker" orphan living in the dripping dregs of the sector, there is only one escape: The Full-Gill Enhancement. It’s a brutal, irreversible surgery that trades legs for a fin and offers the ultimate freedom—a life in the open ocean, untethered from the decaying domes of her youth. But freedom has a price Calistya can’t afford. Until she sees him. While skirting the forbidden edge of The...

What if your memories weren’t yours—and the crimes tied to them were never confessed? Nathan Cole thought he understood his past. Then a violent breach inside a hidden research facility reveals a truth he was never meant to uncover: He isn’t the first version of himself. Buried beneath steel corridors and locked chambers lies a secret decades in the making—human experiments, fractured identities, and a man erased from history to create something new.

They wanted a superhero. They’re going to get a scientist. Forty-two-year-old entomologist Jenna Raleigh retired her superhero alter-ego, the Red Bee, eight years ago. But when her ex-husband calls her to a Florida wetland to investigate a bizarre ecological anomaly, she walks into a carefully laid trap. Swarms of hyper-coordinated mosquitoes don't just attack her—they recognize her, triggering a dormant, arthropod-adjacent mutation inherited from her great-uncle, the original WWII-era Red Bee. Jenna quickly uncovers a chilling corporate conspiracy. A shadowy biotech network is using ...

He never wanted to change the world. He just wanted to be left alone. Hytemer is nobody special. A practical man on a distant world who fixes broken machines and explains things plainly. But when a casual conversation gets recorded and spreads across a dozen worlds, the most powerful corporations in the galaxy discover something terrifying buried in his DNA — not what he has done, but what he is capable of doing. The financial modeling is unambiguous. The decision is coldly rational. Hytemer has to die. He isn't arrested. He isn't warned. He simply becomes the target of a contract that ...

Leonie lebt im Towerland, das von einer als göttlich verehrten künstlichen Intelligenz kontrolliert wird. Die Menschen würfeln hier ab ihrem 18. Lebensjahr um ihre Lebenszeit: Wer eine 7 würfelt, darf in sieben Jahren erneut würfeln, wer eine 0 würfelt, wird zu einer Person Zero und muss sterben. Die Bewohner verehren den Tower als ihren gerechten und unfehlbaren Richter, doch als Leonie eines Tages beginnt, das System zu hinterfragen, entdeckt sie, dass es nicht das hält, was es den Menschen verspricht.

It all comes down to this: Feroz and the conspirators have chosen to make a last stand. Treading carefully, Jace, Onima, Kara, and the rest of the CBI team have an opportunity to pull the proverbial rug out from under them. The team is under the gun. The opposition has forces preparing to strike. They only have a few days before more attacks on clones take place as part of the effort to unravel the Confederation and sow further chaos and spread more disinformation.

Kyle has built his life around the creatures most people fear—But inside the shadowy lab where he works, admiration has twisted into obsession, and the boundaries between research and containment are starting to crack. When a breach unleashes something more dangerous than even Kyle imagined, he finds himself torn between loyalty to his creations and the safety of the only person who has ever seen past his walls—Kim, a fellow researcher suddenly caught in the crossfire.

Verdant Sprout: A Veridia Reclamation Story. In a city of chrome, the greatest act of rebellion is a single seed. Veridia is a city that has forgotten the color green. Beneath its mirrored sky and artificial sun, every breath is rationed by the SyntheLife Corporation, and every circuit is programmed for perfect, sterile order. For Raina Solen, survival means scavenging the waste belts for parts that still have a pulse of utility. But when Raina uncovers a cracked data-crystal—a relic of the forbidden "Verdance" project—she wakes a "living code" that refuses to obey the laws of the machine.

"The Interlace (Part II): Return 2 Vesta – The Rise of RED 9," is a thrilling sequel to the acclaimed first instalment of the trilogy. Five years have passed since the return of Captain Jaspal, Marg, Brian, and Ashi. They now navigate a world forever changed by their expedition to asteroid Vesta.