Resultados para "Dark" en Ingeniería genética

What if a society banished its worst nightmare to the far edge of the solar system, destined to sip dregs of light and struggle for the barest living? What if that life thrived, grew, learned, and became far more than anyone ever expected, yearning to return to the sun? What if it didn't share your moral compass in any way? The Glittering Edge duology describes the clash of forces when an advanced society that has filled a solar system with flesh-and-blood life meets the near-AIs it banished long ago.

Missing and presumed dead, Nick awakes in his bed, bloodied and bruised with no memory of where he has been or what happened to him. As Nick’s friends gather around him to help discover the source of his lost memories, they begin to understand that Nick did not return alone. Something dark is growing inside him. After the darkness forces Nick to go on the run, a stranger appears, knowing more about their situation than they themselves do. The stranger also gives a thin hope of stopping the darkness and its plan.

David knows all about working in a dead-end job. At least he thinks he does. After a freak accident in the barren wilderness of the Australian outback, he finds himself confronted with the true meaning of the term. David is now a dungeon core, charged with producing armies of minions and ensuring his domain is a place where the unworthy go to die. But the accident not only transformed David, it fractured him. Part of his psyche still remains with his broken body.

After ancient Rome fell to the barbarian hordes and its light went out, 500 years of economic and cultural deterioration followed in Europe - The Dark Ages. In the 14th century, the most brutal pandemic to ravage mankind finally pulled this part of the world out of the darkness. The Black Death decimated over 60 percent of the population, creating an immediate surplus of goods and land, which catapulted Europe into a new age of the rebirth: The Renaissance.

In the year 2085, Dr. Lisa Trask is more than a scientist. With advanced neural augmentations, she navigates the cosmos from Nexus Station 18, mapping distant galaxies and unraveling cosmic mysteries. But when an enigmatic gravitational anomaly disrupts her research, Lisa embarks on a mission into the Void—a dark nebula feared by many yet understood by none. There, she encounters the Entity, an ancient intelligence that serves as an Archive of forgotten civilizations and lost worlds.

When a homicide Investigation in a small Texas town hits a brick wall, the sheriff and townies discover evidence of a government experiment that went awry and a conspiracy theory that has been carefully covered up for years.

Deep in the frozen wasteland of Antarctica, a remote NASA research lab rests atop a two-mile thick glacier, covering a vast underground water reservoir. But the true discovery isn't the lake buried in ice - it's what has been found within its boundaries. Something amazing. Something alive. And it may hold the answers to existence itself. When the lab is attacked and its scientists murdered, ex-Navy SEAL Nolan Kilkenny realizes that there's more than science at stake - there's power, money, and what may be another step in evolution.

The perfect weapon has a mind of its own. Jarrod Hawkins, a security contractor with a troubled past, is ushered into an underground facility where a group of DARPA scientists use his body for biotechnological research. They use genetic editing, nanomachinery, neural rewriting, and next-generation armor to turn him into the most fearsome weapon on Earth. But as they push the limits of human performance and lethality, the facility begins to experience unexpected power outages. There is only one explanation - their creation has turned against them.

The Lithirian Empire have found their long lost home world, and they want it back. Unfortunately for Ryan, that world is planet Earth. Separated by a wormhole that spans the Milky Way, Ryan is desperately trying to organize a group of ragtag aliens to fight back before humanity is destroyed. With time running out, only a high risk insurrection will make he and his team of rebel misfits a real threat against the Empire.

Former Immortal Ops Agent Wheeler Summersbee has spent most of his life on the run from his own government. When he’d agreed to be a living test subject in their quest to genetically engineer the perfect super-soldiers, he never dreamed he’d come out the other side of the testing a gargoyle-vampire hybrid who craved blood and had a serious allergy to sunlight. So, when he finds himself trapped in what feels like eternal darkness, he abandons all hope. That is, until he hears the melodic voice of a mysterious woman. Could it be she’s his someone special?

Instead, a freak plane crash into an eerie forest left her with a shocking gift—a literal electric touch. As a powerful skill intertwined with a curse, Dani has done everything to avoid the dangerous thirst for electricity threatening to consume her mind. But when her latest stint of siphoning money from an ATM gets her caught by some cocky cop, she braces for a life behind plexiglass. Instead of cuffs, the cop offers her a deal that could save her: a cure.

When the silver mines of M-1819 suffer a catastrophic breach, Roger Hawthorn is the Compliance Officer sent to lift the orbital station’s subsequent lockdown. The company’s reclusive founder, Petar Novikov, insists that everything is under control–that by signing a few harmless documents, Roger can be on a shuttle headed back to his pregnant wife as early as tomorrow.

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