Títulos en Ingeniería genética

Jason Taverner es un seis, un súperhumano mejorado genéticamente. Pero también es un ídolo televisivo adorado por treinta millones de personas. O lo era hasta que una mañana, al despertar, descubre que sus documentos de identidad han desaparecido, que no hay ningún registro sobre él en las extensas bases de datos de la policía ni el gobierno, y que ni sus amigos ni sus seguidores tienen el menor recuerdo de él.

En un futuro distópico, las grandes corporaciones tienen la clave para erradicar las enfermedades. Solo los más adinerados tienen esa nueva biotecnología disponible. Los imperfectos van a luchar por eliminar esa nueva sociedad. ¡La guerra por la liberación ha comenzado! ¿Imaginas una...

Novela de ciencia ficción en la que se basa la película de Robert Pattinson y Boong Joon Ho, Mickey 17 Mickey Barnes es un Prescindible, encarnado en la séptima réplica de su cuerpo, que vive (y muere) rodeado de sus colegas colonizadores en Niflheim, un planeta helado y casi inhabitable. Hay quien lo considera inmortal. O tros lo ven como una monstruosidad sin alma. Durante los últimos nueve años ha realizado toda clase de tareas peligrosas y ha sido el conejillo de Indias de experimentos que ponen a prueba los límites de la resistencia humana.

When Lenina and Bernard visit a savage reservation, we experience how Utopia can destroy humanity. Cloning, feel-good drugs, anti-aging programs, and total social control through politics, programming, and media: has Aldous Huxley accurately predicted our future? With a storyteller's genius, he weaves these ethical controversies in a compelling narrative that dawns in the year 632 A.F. (After Ford, the deity). When Lenina and Bernard visit a savage reservation, we experience how Utopia can destroy humanity.

The sky was a lie. The earth was a grave. And Kaelen Thorne just opened the door. For three hundred years, the citizens of Silo 1 believed the surface was a toxic hellscape. They lived in the subterranean dark, recycling the same air and fearing the "outside." Kaelen Thorne, a low-level structural analyst, thought he knew the rules: keep your head down, fix the pipes, and survive.

En el vertiginoso mundo del siglo XXI, altamente tecnificado y donde solo cuenta el poder del dinero, Max y Nora tendrán que luchar contra todos los que, sin que importen los medios para hacerlo, desean apropiarse de la fórmula secreta de Frankenstein. Separados, y sin saber en quién confiar, tendrán que plantearse de nuevo qué es un monstruo, y se verán inmersos en una carrera contrarreloj para poder estar juntos y tener un futuro.

Un náufrago es rescatado en alta mar y es llevado a una isla, pero allí descubrirá que su pesadilla apenas comienza: un par de médicos realiza crueles experimentos y el lugar está lleno de criaturas extrañas mitad humano mitad animal. La isla que da nombre al relato y los siniestros hechos de los que es escenario son, en efecto, una desasosegante parábola sobre el lado oscuro de la ciencia y también una sombría exploración de la esencia y los límites de la naturaleza humana.

A journey weaving historical events and cutting edge science with a thought-provoking concept that points to science and a higher power being one in the same. A tooth believed to be that of Jesus follows an arduous journey of adventure through a centuries long path, placing it in the hands of many a caretaker until its final arrival in the hands of impatient Russian Oligarch Demyan Sokolov. Demyan's ego gets the best of him and leads to him overstepping scientific boundaries even the Russian Government frowns upon.

They survived the end of the world. What they didn’t survive was time. Eleven months after vanishing into the heart of Z-Land, Echo Team emerges from the shadows of a lost America, changed, scarred, and carrying secrets that should not exist. The infection has evolved. The dead are faster. Smarter. Some now take to the skies. And something far worse waits in the ruins.

‘Ted Chiang is one of the most exciting writers in science fiction . . . These parables are filled with hope and humanism.’ – The Daily Telegraph From the acclaimed author of Stories of Your Life and Others – the basis for the Academy Award-winning film Arrival – comes a groundbreaking...

Griffin es un joven científico con aspiraciones de lograr algo revolucionario en el campo de la ciencia. Tras largos y penosos experimentos, consigue obtener un producto capaz de hacer invisibles a objetos, animales y, por fin, también a personas. Él mismo realiza el experimento de hacerse invisible y da resultado. Pero es precisamente entonces cuando comenzarán sus verdaderos problemas.

THE INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER NEBULA AWARD FINALIST FOR BEST NOVEL LOCUS AWARD FINALIST FOR BEST SCIENCE FICTION WINNER OF THE LIBBY AWARD FOR BEST SCIENCE FICTION 'This one has it all' GEORGE R. R. MARTIN 'As delicious as it is disorienting' ZAKIYA DALILA HARRIS 'Beautifully evoked' THE...

En el vertiginós món del segle XXI, altament tecnificat i on només compta el poder dels diners, en Max i la Nora hauran de lluitar contra tots aquells que, sense que importin els mitjans per fer-ho, desitgen apropiar-se de la fórmula secreta d'en Frankenstein. Separats, i sense saber en qui confiar, s'hauran de tornar a plantejar què és un monstre, i es veuran immersos en una cursa a contrarellotge per poder estar junts i tenir un futur.

En el parque temático del Reino, los visitantes pasean en dragones virtuales, los castillos se ciernen desde las alturas y los animales antes extintos, ahora recreados con bioingeniería, deambulan por los alrededores. Ana es una de las siete fantasistas, autómatas con aspecto de princesas cuyo objetivo es entretener al público. Cuando conoce a Owen, un trabajador del parque, Ana empieza a experimentar emociones más allá de su programación. Pero el cuento de hadas se convierte en una pesadilla cuando la detienen por asesinar a Owen.

The Concord is in shambles after the return of the Statu, but under the guidance of the Zilph'i, trust is slowly being rebuilt. Thomas Baldwin remains confident in his team, the secrets of his ship and the Concord no longer a dire threat. While the Founders continue to appease the Concord members, the Border Wars are picking up steam, and Constantine is sent to the far reaches of space to the Zilph'i homeworld to request the Ugna's aid.  

With the Surial gone, Colton Beck has a chance to rebuild the Rusa race. Colton embarks on a dangerous journey to find answers, bringing his closest allies along for the ride. Each objective is a step toward to repopulating Nulit, but the ultimate price might be higher than they’re willing to offer. Now that the truth about the Angor has been realized, the Unity Accord will never be the same. Colton is determined to ensure his peoples’ position over the fabled Ocean, even if it tears the Unity apart.

Colton Beck has a new lease on life. Their alliance is confident they can find their enemy in the Alruna system, and it’s all hands on deck. After the revelation of his origins from the mysterious woman on Dicore, Colton is at odds with where his loyalties stand. The truth behind Indie Hart’s dedication to the Angor is revealed, making Colton doubt her motives as well as the Angor’s. When Earth is threatened, it’ll take a lot more than one man to save the planet. All pieces come together for a cataclysmic resolution, but who can Colton truly trust?

What will become of our self-destructed planet? The answer shatters all expectations in this subversive speculation from the Hugo Award - winning author of the Broken Earth trilogy. An explorer returns to gather information from a climate-ravaged Earth that his ancestors, and others among the planet’s finest, fled centuries ago. The mission comes with a warning: A graveyard world awaits him. But so do those left behind - hopeless and unbeautiful wastes of humanity who should have died out ages ago.

This is the story of an apparently young, amnesiac girl whose alarmingly unhuman needs and abilities lead her to a startling conclusion: She is in fact a genetically modified, 53-year-old vampire. Forced to discover what she can about her stolen former life, she must at the same time learn who wanted - and still wants - to destroy her and those she cares for and how she can save herself. 

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. Even if that means sabotaging alien power plants, blackmailing his superior officers, and using his own troops as bait in a deadly game of cat and mouse.