Bill Ransom
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A vivid and gritty thriller in the vein of Michael Crichton and Tom Clancy, Burn takes today's genetic research one step into a terrifying future, a "Hot Zone" world gone mad about a man-made contagion that literally leaves no one untouched.
It is called GenoVax, and the death it brings is horrifying.
It is the most frightening weapon mankind has ever created, and when it is unleashed, the human race will know what it is like to burn. . . ....
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Hybrid vampires Daniel and Diana feel technology's cold, uncountable tendrils hunting them. Daniel scientifically satisfies his needs. Diana, his twin sister, hunts in the old-school way, leaving patches of greasy, scorched earth or mutilated bodies for her brother to take care of. Daniel created Matrix, a face pack for beauty shops, which pulls blood through skin, leaves blissful clients, kills and alerts no one. He prefers milking to butchering....
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A near-future thriller of deadly genetic warfare.
The private laboratory known as ViraVax, deep in the Central American jungles, is known for conducting questionable genetic research outside of safety regulations and oversight. Ex-intelligence officer Rico Toledo has uncovered a horrifying truth. Viravax, run by a mysterious utopian group called the Children of Eden, wants to remake the world, and humanity itself, according to their own image....
4) Jaguar
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In dreams, anything is possible…
The Jaguar controls people in two worlds through their dreams, causing madness. In the world of the Roam, he brands them like cattle and controls an army of priests to inflict cruel punishments for any type of resistance to his will.
But others travel the dreamways of both worlds-Eddie Reyes and his girlfriend, Maryellen, in this world, and their counterparts, Afriqua Lee and Rafferty, in the parallel world of...
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Based on a New York Times bestseller, inhabitants of a planet colony confront totalitarianism in this "intelligent" sci-fi fantasy "with solid characters" (Kirkus Reviews).
In The Jesus Incident, Hugo and Nebula Award–winning author George Herbert and poet Bill Ransom introduced Ship, an artificial intelligence that believed it was God, abandoning its unworthy human cargo on the all-sea world of Pandora. Now centuries have passed. The descendants...
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"This final collaboration between the late Herbert (Dune) and Ransom is a worthy sequel to their novel The Lazarus Effect." -Publishers Weekly
Pandora's humans have been recovering land from its raging seas at an accelerated pace since The Lazarus Effect. The great kelp of the seas, sentient but electronically manipulated by humans, buffers Pandora's wild currents to restore land and facilitate the booming sea trade. New settlements rise overnight,...
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All three novels in the New York Times–bestselling science fiction fantasy series about the survival of a human colony in the wake of AI.
From Frank Herbert, the Hugo and Nebula Award–winning author of Dune, in collaboration with Bill Ransom, the bestselling series that began with Destination Void.
The Jesus Incident opens as Ship, an artificial intelligence with godlike powers delivers the last survivors of humanity to a horrific,...
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From a New York Times bestseller, "a tremendously exciting, mysterious, and powerful novel" about an AI creation that exiles humanity to alien planet (SFreviews.net).
A sentient Ship, an artificial intelligence with godlike powers, delivers the last survivors of humanity to a horrific, poisonous planet, Pandora-rife with deadly Nerve-Runners, Hooded Dashers, airborne jellyfish, and intelligent kelp. Chaplain and psychiatrist Raja Lon Flattery...