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FridayNovel
Robert A. Heinleinstandalone novel1982
About identity and race and racism, set in near future.
“Artificial humans are widely resented, and much of the story deals with Friday's struggle both against prejudice and to conceal her enhanced attributes from other humans.”
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A Report from Group 17Novel
Robert C. O'Brienstandalone novel1972
Thriller & suspense and dystopia, about political intrigue and war.
“Set in Washington, D.C., during the Cold War, the story deals particularly with the danger of developing bioweapons.”
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MidnightNovel
Dean R. Koontzstandalone novel1989
Horror, about nanotechnology and survival, set in contemporary.
“A wealthy tech entrepreneur, intending to create superhumans by infecting them with nanotech to assist their physical and mental abilities, picks a California town as his secret pilot project, but things go terribly wrong.”
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FrameshiftNovel
Robert J. Sawyerstandalone novel1997
Thriller & suspense, about family secrets and murder investigation, set in contemporary.
“A driven man, Pierre works with the awareness that he may not have long to live: he has a fifty-fifty chance of dying from Huntington's disease, an incurable hereditary disorder of the central nervous system.”
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When She WokeNovel
Hillary Jordanstandalone novel2011
Dystopia, about faith and religion and totalitarianism, set in near future.
DarwinSeries
series2 books1999
completed
Hard science fiction, about plague and pandemic, set in near future.
“Greg Bear's Darwin's Radio imagines a dormant retrovirus in human DNA activating worldwide, triggering an accelerated leap in human evolution that governments respond to as a plague.”
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