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How to Defeat Your Own Clone: And Other Tips for Surviving the Biotech Revolution<\/span><\/a> by Kyle Kurpinski and Terry D. Johnson<\/span><\/p>\n Promo copy:<\/span><\/p>\n Send in the clones! On second thought, maybe not.<\/p>\n CAN IT READ MY MIND? Find out the answers to these and other burning questions in this funny, informative, and ingenious book from two bioengineering experts who show you how to survive\u2014and thrive\u2014in a new age of truly weird science. \u2022 bioenhancements: They\u2019re not just for cyborgs anymore. Our future may be populated by designer babies, genetically enhanced supersoldiers, and one (or more!) of your genetic duplicates, but all is not lost. How to Defeat Your Own Clone is the ultimate survival guide to what lies ahead. Just remember the first rule of engagement: Don\u2019t ever let your clone read this book!<\/p>\n \n Shadowline: Starfishers Trilogy Volume One<\/span><\/a> by Glen Cook<\/span><\/p>\n Promo copy:<\/span><\/p>\n \nThe vendetta in space had started centuries before "Mouse" Storm was born with his grandfather’s raid on the planet Prefactlas, the blood bath that freed the human slaves from their Sangaree masters. But one Sangaree survived – the young Norborn heir, the man who swore vengeance on the Storm family and their soldiers, in a carefully mapped plot that would take generations to fulfill. Now Mouse’s father Gneaus must fight for an El Dorado of wealth on the burning half of the planet Blackworld. As the great private armies of all space clash on the narrow Shadowline that divides inferno from life-sheltering shade, Gneaus’ half- brother Michael plays his traitorous games, and a man called Death pulls the deadly strings that threaten to entrap them all – as the Starfishers Trilogy begins. <\/p>\n \n Star Wars Clone Wars Gambit: Stealth<\/span><\/a> by Karen Miller<\/span><\/p>\n Promo copy:<\/span><\/p>\n Planet by planet, darkness creeps across the galaxy. Among warriors and generals, among ordinary beings living in far-flung worlds, the fear will not go away: We are losing this war. . . .<\/p>\n Anakin Skywalker feels it, too. The Separatist Alliance, with ruthlessness and treachery, is beating the Republic to every strategic target. But after a costly clash with General Grievous for the planet Kothlis, Anakin has a mission that will focus his anxious mind. Alongside Obi-Wan Kenobi, he is posing as a long-lost native of Lanteeb, an impoverished world on the Outer Rim. This seemingly unimportant planet has drawn the interest of the Seps\u2014and Anakin and Obi-Wan soon discover the disturbing reason: A scientist enslaved by General Lok Durd is drawing on Lanteeb\u2019s one natural resource for a devastating bioweapon. Now Anakin and Obi-Wan have entered the eye of a storm. Their presence has been exposed, Lok Durd\u2019s plans unveiled, and a fight has begun for survival behind enemy lines\u2014and a chance of winning a war that must be fought at any cost.<\/p>\n \n Chill<\/span><\/a> by Elizabeth Bear<\/span><\/p>\n Promo copy:<\/span><\/p>\n Sometimes the greatest sin is survival.<\/p>\n The generation ship Jacob\u2019s Ladder has barely survived cataclysms from without and within. Now, riding the shock wave of a nova blast toward an uncertain destiny, the damaged ship\u2014the only world its inhabitants have ever known\u2014remains a war zone. Even as Perceval, the new captain, struggles to come to terms with the traumas of her recent past, the remnants of rebellion aboard the ship still threaten the crew\u2019s survival.<\/p>\n Yet as Perceval\u2019s relatives Tristen and Benedick play a deadly game of cat and mouse in pursuit of a traitor through a vast ship that is renewing itself in strange and dangerous ways, an even more insidious threat is building in a place no one ever thought to look. And this implacable enemy could change the face of the ship forever if a ragtag band of heroes cannot stop it.<\/p>\n More in Part II<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Let\u2019s take a quick look to see what\u2019s arrived in the mail here at the Geek Compound. How to Defeat Your Own Clone: And Other Tips for Surviving the Biotech Revolution by Kyle Kurpinski and Terry D. Johnson Promo copy: … Continue reading
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\nFor decades, science fiction has been alerting us to the wonders and perils of our biotech future\u2014from the prospects of gene therapy to the pitfalls of biological warfare. Now that future looms before us. Don\u2019t panic! This book is all you need to prepare for the new world that awaits us, providing indispensable cautionary advice on topics such as<\/p>\n
\n\u2022 DNA sequencing and fingerprinting: What\u2019s scarier than the government having your DNA on file? Try having it posted on the Internet.
\n\u2022 human cloning: Just like you, only stronger, smarter, and more attractive. In other words: more dangerous.<\/p>\n![](\"http:\/\/ecx.images-amazon.com\/images\/I\/51PEJkOXNPL._SL500_AA240_.jpg\")
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