Author: Stephen Kozeniewski
Publisher: French Press
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 187
Book Description
Six billion identical clones make up the entire population of Earth, and William 790-6 (57th Iteration) is exactly like everybody else. In his one year of life he will toil in suburban mediocrity and spend as much cash as possible in order to please his corporate masters. When 790's first birthday (and scheduled execution) finally rolls around, a freak accident spares his life. Living past his expiration date changes 790 profoundly. Unlike other clones he becomes capable of questioning the futility of his own existence. Seeking answers in the wilderness, he discovers a windmill with some very strange occupants, including a freakish, dinosaur-like monstrosity. Which is especially strange since every animal on earth is supposed to be extinct... Dark, haunting, and blisteringly satirical, BILLY AND THE CLONEASAURUS is the story of one "man's" attempt to finally become an individual in a world of copies.
Billy and the Cloneasaurus
Author: Stephen Kozeniewski
Publisher: French Press
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 187
Book Description
Six billion identical clones make up the entire population of Earth, and William 790-6 (57th Iteration) is exactly like everybody else. In his one year of life he will toil in suburban mediocrity and spend as much cash as possible in order to please his corporate masters. When 790's first birthday (and scheduled execution) finally rolls around, a freak accident spares his life. Living past his expiration date changes 790 profoundly. Unlike other clones he becomes capable of questioning the futility of his own existence. Seeking answers in the wilderness, he discovers a windmill with some very strange occupants, including a freakish, dinosaur-like monstrosity. Which is especially strange since every animal on earth is supposed to be extinct... Dark, haunting, and blisteringly satirical, BILLY AND THE CLONEASAURUS is the story of one "man's" attempt to finally become an individual in a world of copies.
Publisher: French Press
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 187
Book Description
Six billion identical clones make up the entire population of Earth, and William 790-6 (57th Iteration) is exactly like everybody else. In his one year of life he will toil in suburban mediocrity and spend as much cash as possible in order to please his corporate masters. When 790's first birthday (and scheduled execution) finally rolls around, a freak accident spares his life. Living past his expiration date changes 790 profoundly. Unlike other clones he becomes capable of questioning the futility of his own existence. Seeking answers in the wilderness, he discovers a windmill with some very strange occupants, including a freakish, dinosaur-like monstrosity. Which is especially strange since every animal on earth is supposed to be extinct... Dark, haunting, and blisteringly satirical, BILLY AND THE CLONEASAURUS is the story of one "man's" attempt to finally become an individual in a world of copies.
Ancestor
Author: Scott Sigler
Publisher: Crown
ISBN: 0307589358
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 434
Book Description
“The ancestors are out there…you have to believe me.” From acclaimed author Scott Sigler—New York Times bestselling creator of Infected and Contagious—comes a tale of genetic experimentation’s worst nightmare come true. Every five minutes, a transplant candidate dies while waiting for a heart, a liver, a kidney. Imagine a technology that could provide those life-saving transplant organs for a nominal fee ... and imagine what a company would do to get a monopoly on that technology. On a remote island in the Canadian Arctic, PJ Colding leads a group of geneticists who have discovered this holy grail of medicine. By reverse-engineering the genomes of thousands of mammals, Colding's team has dialed back the evolutionary clock to re-create humankind’s common ancestor. The method? Illegal. The result? A computer-engineered living creature, an animal whose organs can be implanted in any person, and with no chance of transplant rejection. There's just one problem: these ancestors are not the docile herd animals that Colding's team envisioned. Instead, Colding’s work has given birth to something big, something evil. With these killer creatures on the prowl, Colding and the woman he loves must fight to survive — even as government agents close in to shut the project down, and the deep-pocketed company backing this research proves to have its own cold-blooded agenda. As the creators become the prey in the ultimate battle for survival, Scott Sigler takes readers on the ultimate thrill-ride—and offers a chilling cautionary account of what can happen when hubris, greed, and madness drive scientific experimentation past the brink of reason.
Publisher: Crown
ISBN: 0307589358
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 434
Book Description
“The ancestors are out there…you have to believe me.” From acclaimed author Scott Sigler—New York Times bestselling creator of Infected and Contagious—comes a tale of genetic experimentation’s worst nightmare come true. Every five minutes, a transplant candidate dies while waiting for a heart, a liver, a kidney. Imagine a technology that could provide those life-saving transplant organs for a nominal fee ... and imagine what a company would do to get a monopoly on that technology. On a remote island in the Canadian Arctic, PJ Colding leads a group of geneticists who have discovered this holy grail of medicine. By reverse-engineering the genomes of thousands of mammals, Colding's team has dialed back the evolutionary clock to re-create humankind’s common ancestor. The method? Illegal. The result? A computer-engineered living creature, an animal whose organs can be implanted in any person, and with no chance of transplant rejection. There's just one problem: these ancestors are not the docile herd animals that Colding's team envisioned. Instead, Colding’s work has given birth to something big, something evil. With these killer creatures on the prowl, Colding and the woman he loves must fight to survive — even as government agents close in to shut the project down, and the deep-pocketed company backing this research proves to have its own cold-blooded agenda. As the creators become the prey in the ultimate battle for survival, Scott Sigler takes readers on the ultimate thrill-ride—and offers a chilling cautionary account of what can happen when hubris, greed, and madness drive scientific experimentation past the brink of reason.
The Great Zoo of China
Author: Matthew Reilly
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1476749574
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 464
Book Description
"The all-new thriller from #1 internationally bestselling author Matthew Reilly! It is a secret the Chinese government has been keeping for forty years. They have found a species of animal no one believed even existed. It will amaze the world. Now the Chinese are ready to unveil their astonishing discovery within the greatest zoo ever constructed. A small group of VIPs and journalists has been brought to the zoo deep within China to see its fabulous creatures for the first time. Among them is Dr. Cassandra Jane "CJ" Cameron, a writer for National Geographic and an expert on reptiles. The visitors are assured by their Chinese hosts that they will be struck with wonder at these beasts, that they are perfectly safe, and that nothing can go wrong. Of course it can't... GET READY FOR ACTION ON A GIGANTIC SCALE"--
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1476749574
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 464
Book Description
"The all-new thriller from #1 internationally bestselling author Matthew Reilly! It is a secret the Chinese government has been keeping for forty years. They have found a species of animal no one believed even existed. It will amaze the world. Now the Chinese are ready to unveil their astonishing discovery within the greatest zoo ever constructed. A small group of VIPs and journalists has been brought to the zoo deep within China to see its fabulous creatures for the first time. Among them is Dr. Cassandra Jane "CJ" Cameron, a writer for National Geographic and an expert on reptiles. The visitors are assured by their Chinese hosts that they will be struck with wonder at these beasts, that they are perfectly safe, and that nothing can go wrong. Of course it can't... GET READY FOR ACTION ON A GIGANTIC SCALE"--
Yes, I Am A Vampire
Author: Stephen Kozeniewski
Publisher: French Press Publishing
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 250
Book Description
The Collected Short Fiction and Autobiography of Stephen Kozeniewski, 2013-2016 Despite all the evidence to the contrary, I swear I am not a vampire. Cross my heart and…eh, nevermind. Just trust me, there are no vampires within these pages. Plenty of zombies, though. One of the short stories in this book features a zombie caveman, for instance. And another is called Exploding Shit Zombies. You can probably guess what that one's about. Not every story is zombie-themed, of course. I've also got a monster under the bed piece that's pretty fucking scary. And in another, a bunch of little alien goblins take over a farmstead. This isn't just a short story collection, either. Half of it's my autobiography. I guarantee you've never seen those two styles mashed together before. I also guarantee you've never seen any fucking vampires before. Not here. Not anywhere. So let's just drop it. What do you mean, bloodstains all over the book? Don't worry about those. Just wipe the gore off your fingers and dive in to… Yes, I Am A Vampire
Publisher: French Press Publishing
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 250
Book Description
The Collected Short Fiction and Autobiography of Stephen Kozeniewski, 2013-2016 Despite all the evidence to the contrary, I swear I am not a vampire. Cross my heart and…eh, nevermind. Just trust me, there are no vampires within these pages. Plenty of zombies, though. One of the short stories in this book features a zombie caveman, for instance. And another is called Exploding Shit Zombies. You can probably guess what that one's about. Not every story is zombie-themed, of course. I've also got a monster under the bed piece that's pretty fucking scary. And in another, a bunch of little alien goblins take over a farmstead. This isn't just a short story collection, either. Half of it's my autobiography. I guarantee you've never seen those two styles mashed together before. I also guarantee you've never seen any fucking vampires before. Not here. Not anywhere. So let's just drop it. What do you mean, bloodstains all over the book? Don't worry about those. Just wipe the gore off your fingers and dive in to… Yes, I Am A Vampire
Deepwater Landing
Author: Ken Catran
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780340626733
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 183
Book Description
Deepwater is a spaceship crewed by teenagers, their course and mission unknown, but instinct tells them there is an enemy within as well as the terrifying aliens who cross their path
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780340626733
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 183
Book Description
Deepwater is a spaceship crewed by teenagers, their course and mission unknown, but instinct tells them there is an enemy within as well as the terrifying aliens who cross their path
Bad Chili
Author: Joe R. Lansdale
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
ISBN: 9780892966196
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 308
Book Description
"A novel of suspense" featuring Hap Collins and Leonard Pine.
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
ISBN: 9780892966196
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 308
Book Description
"A novel of suspense" featuring Hap Collins and Leonard Pine.
The Thing Under Your Bed
Author: Stephen Kozeniewski
Publisher: French Press
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 90
Book Description
There’s something under your bed. It hates you. It wants to devour you and everyone you love. Dad’s at work. Mom’s dead drunk and no help whatsoever. Maybe your stuffed rabbit can help, since he seems to be alive and talking now. Then again, maybe that just means you’ve finally gone around the bend. Whatever plan you come up with to survive the night, though, you’d better not let so much as a fingertip stray off your mattress. If you do, you’ll be ripped to bloody chunks by… THE THING UNDER YOUR BED.
Publisher: French Press
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 90
Book Description
There’s something under your bed. It hates you. It wants to devour you and everyone you love. Dad’s at work. Mom’s dead drunk and no help whatsoever. Maybe your stuffed rabbit can help, since he seems to be alive and talking now. Then again, maybe that just means you’ve finally gone around the bend. Whatever plan you come up with to survive the night, though, you’d better not let so much as a fingertip stray off your mattress. If you do, you’ll be ripped to bloody chunks by… THE THING UNDER YOUR BED.
Come Lucky April
Author: Jean Ure
Publisher: Hachette UK
ISBN: 144491992X
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 170
Book Description
Come Lucky April is set a hundred years on from Plague 99. Harry's great-granddaughter is a girl called April, who lives in an all-female run vegan society, which is carefully governed to eliminate risk of plague-like situations. Men have shamed themselves and are no longer in power. There's a primitive aspect to life as though the 21st century as we know it never happened. At 12, boys are exiled for 5 years ...'they went away as barbarians and came back civilised', which means castrated. 'Homecoming' is when they are welcomed back - but how welcome are they? We meet Daniel, a survivor of a patrician clan, whose quest it is to find unclaimed parts of the 'outside world'. His great grandmother was Fran and his great grand-father was Shahid from the first part of the trilogy. He wants to find the diary that Fran left behind in her family home in Croydon. In the abandoned house, girls and boy meet ... Daniel and April don't, at first, realise they are connected by their distant ancestors' friendship. A potential romantic attachment forms between them. His presence creates conflict, but they take him into their community, where the conflicts worsen. Daniel questions everything April has been brought up to believe. He challenges the women's views and their rejection of the orthodoxy he knows. He makes David, a long-term friend of April, question what he has lost as a man. An exciting novel, rich in texture and passionate in its ideas.
Publisher: Hachette UK
ISBN: 144491992X
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 170
Book Description
Come Lucky April is set a hundred years on from Plague 99. Harry's great-granddaughter is a girl called April, who lives in an all-female run vegan society, which is carefully governed to eliminate risk of plague-like situations. Men have shamed themselves and are no longer in power. There's a primitive aspect to life as though the 21st century as we know it never happened. At 12, boys are exiled for 5 years ...'they went away as barbarians and came back civilised', which means castrated. 'Homecoming' is when they are welcomed back - but how welcome are they? We meet Daniel, a survivor of a patrician clan, whose quest it is to find unclaimed parts of the 'outside world'. His great grandmother was Fran and his great grand-father was Shahid from the first part of the trilogy. He wants to find the diary that Fran left behind in her family home in Croydon. In the abandoned house, girls and boy meet ... Daniel and April don't, at first, realise they are connected by their distant ancestors' friendship. A potential romantic attachment forms between them. His presence creates conflict, but they take him into their community, where the conflicts worsen. Daniel questions everything April has been brought up to believe. He challenges the women's views and their rejection of the orthodoxy he knows. He makes David, a long-term friend of April, question what he has lost as a man. An exciting novel, rich in texture and passionate in its ideas.
The Gabble and Other Stories
Author: Neal Asher
Publisher: Start Publishing LLC
ISBN: 159780522X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 407
Book Description
In the eight years since his first full-length novel Gridlinked was published by Pan Macmillan, Neal Asher has firmly established himself as one of the leading British writers of Science Fiction, and his novels are now translated in many languages. Most of his stories are set in a galactic future-scape called ‘The Polity’, and with this collection of marvellously inventive and action-packed short stories, he takes us further into the manifold diversities of that amazing universe. No one does monsters better than Neal Asher, so be prepared to revisit the lives and lifestyles of such favourites as the gabbleduck and the hooder, to savour alien poisons, the walking dead, the Sea of Death, and the putrefactor symbiont.
Publisher: Start Publishing LLC
ISBN: 159780522X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 407
Book Description
In the eight years since his first full-length novel Gridlinked was published by Pan Macmillan, Neal Asher has firmly established himself as one of the leading British writers of Science Fiction, and his novels are now translated in many languages. Most of his stories are set in a galactic future-scape called ‘The Polity’, and with this collection of marvellously inventive and action-packed short stories, he takes us further into the manifold diversities of that amazing universe. No one does monsters better than Neal Asher, so be prepared to revisit the lives and lifestyles of such favourites as the gabbleduck and the hooder, to savour alien poisons, the walking dead, the Sea of Death, and the putrefactor symbiont.
Mortal Gods
Author: Jonathan Fast
Publisher: Scarborough, Ont. : New American Library of Canada
ISBN: 9780451085733
Category : Science fiction, American
Languages : en
Pages : 153
Book Description
Publisher: Scarborough, Ont. : New American Library of Canada
ISBN: 9780451085733
Category : Science fiction, American
Languages : en
Pages : 153
Book Description