検索キーワード： 制作 "-- Kevin Wright --" 遺伝子工学

On a quiet seafront in the middle of the afternoon the sun sets, the clouds part and something like a pale, elongated human figure appears on the horizon. For Maria, watching from the beach, it’s proof that she should never have dared to return. Five years earlier, her life shattered by the arrival of the Stone Man, she’d fled the country. But now she can’t escape: suddenly, there are news reports of ‘Empty Men’ materialising all around the coast, and the roads are gridlocked. The Empty Men are killers, and they’re heading inland.

Reality after reality is being destroyed by THE BLEED. With their options narrowing by the second, and with their group scattered far and wide across the multiverse, it's down to less than 10 people to try and save the lives of billions upon billions of others. If they fail, THE BLEED will rule. Nothing and no one else will survive.

A simple DNA test is all it takes. Just a quick mouth swab, and soon, you'll be matched with your perfect partner - the one you're genetically made for. That's the promise made by Match Your DNA. A decade ago, the company announced that they had found the gene that pairs each of us with our soul mate. Since then, millions of people around the world have been matched. But the discovery has its downsides: Test results have led to the breakup of countless relationships and upended the traditional ideas of dating, romance, and love.

In der Mitte des 21. Jahrtausends werden Kinder geklont und in Afrika von Leihmüttern zur Welt gebracht. Lebensmittel kommen aus Laboren. Senioren erwartet nach dem Arbeitsleben die Euthanasie. Die Genetikerin Lise und ihre Tochter Sonja arbeiten daran, die Menschheit von Emotionen zu befreien. Rationales Denken würde unsinnige Kriege beenden. Aber ausgerechnet jetzt wird die 80-Jährige Lise von ihrer Vergangenheit eingeholt. Liebe kommt ins Spiel - und dann gefährden noch militante Öko-Fanatiker den greifbaren Erfolg der zwei Genetikerinnen.

Adam ist der erste Mensch. Er ist wirklich der erste, der die 184 Parsec lange Reise übersteht und noch seinem Namen kennt. Fuck! Was soll der Scheiß! Er hat bei dieser abgefahrenen Nummer nicht freiwillig mitgemacht! Sein Gastgeber, dieser Wichser, hat mit ihm, aufgrund diverser charakterlicher Besonderheiten, keine schlechtere Wahl treffen können. Die Geschichte über eine Reise... ähm... so ein Drecksding, das einen ganz woanders hinbringt.

Es ist nichts Geringeres als eine medizinische Sensation: Durch die Entdeckung eines neuen Wundermittels kann der Alterungsprozess des Menschen aufgehalten werden! Wer das Medikament regelmäßig nimmt bleibt nicht nur ewig jung, er ist auch schöner und stärker als "normale" Menschen. Doch die neue Wunderdroge hat einen Haken: Man braucht dazu das Blut von Menschen, deren DNA eine besondere Sequenz aufweist. Oft werden diese "Träger" entführt und in Blutfarmen gefangen gehalten.

Doro ist ein Unsterblicher, ein Geisterwesen, das jeden menschlichen Körper übernehmen kann. Seit tausend Jahren greift er in die Geschicke eines afrikanischen Dorfes ein, um einen perfekten Menschen zu züchten. Als Sklavenhändler das Dorf verwüsten und seine "Kinder" entführen, reist er ihnen hinterher und begegnet Anyanwu, einer Gestaltwandlerin und Heilerin, die ebenso unsterblich ist wie er. Sie könnte der Schlüssel zu Doros Plänen sein - doch Anyanwu hat eigene Pläne. Und so beginnt ein Kampf zwischen zwei Halbgöttern, der die Zukunft der Menschheit für immer verändern wird.

Der Wahnsinn eines überbegabten Wissenschaftlers ist ein Thema, das zu großen Visionen in Literatur und Film geführt hat. Lymphater, ein älterer, heruntergekommener Wissenschaftler, erzählt, wie er durch seine interdisziplinären Forschungen die nächste Evolutionsstufe erschaffen hat - mit ungeahnten Konsequenzen: Er entdeckt, wie anhand des Fortschritts der Mensch sich selbst abschaffen wird.

Der Astronaut Hal Bregg kehrt - 127 Erdenjahre nach seiner Abreise - von einer Raumfahrt auf den Blauen Planeten zurück und findet sich in der menschlichen Gesellschaft nicht mehr zurecht. Da Hal nicht "betrisiert" ist - ein Routineeingriff, der nun bei allen Neugeborenen vorgenommen wird, um aggressives und gewalttätiges Verhalten zu unterdrücken -, wird er von seinen Mitmenschen gemieden und somit zum Außenseiter. Als er sich jedoch in die junge Frau Tarrit verliebt, schöpft er erneut Hoffnung.

Alice wakes up in the Los Angeles Quake Zone in 2025 having no idea how she got there. As her memories slowly return, she finds she's being hunted by several armed groups intent on capturing her alive. At the same time, Este, a survivor of the quakes that destroyed Los Angeles, makes a living as a pathfinder for salvage teams in the city. Este rescues Alice from her pursuers and learns there is something not quite right about her - Alice is convinced it is 2003.

Persephone Station, a seemingly backwater planet that has largely been ignored by the United Republic of Worlds, becomes the focus for the Serrao-Orlov Corporation as the planet has a few secrets the corporation wants to exploit. Rosie, owner of Monk's Bar, serves members of a rather exclusive criminal class and those who seek to employ them. Angel, ex-marine and head of a semi-organized band of beneficent criminals, wayward assassins, and washed-up mercenaries with a penchant for doing the honorable thing, is asked to perform a job for Rosie.

Misanthropic psychologist Dr. Grace Park is placed on the Deucalion, a survey ship headed to an icy planet in an unexplored galaxy. Her purpose is to observe the thirteen human crew members aboard the ship - all specialists in their own fields - as they assess the colonization potential of the planet, Eos. But frictions develop as Park befriends the androids of the ship, preferring their company over the baffling complexity of humans, while the rest of the crew treats them with suspicion and even outright hostility.

This collection includes 'Chosen of Khorne' by Anthony Reynolds, 'Throne of Lies' by Aaron-Dembski Bowden, 'Perfection' by Nick Kyme, 'Ahriman: The First Prince' by John French, 'Repairer of Ruin' by Josh Reynolds, and 'The Embrace of Pain' by Ian St Martin.

Uriel Ventris, newly ascended to the ranks of the Primaris, leads warriors of the Fourth Company from the Indomitus Crusade of Roboute Guilliman to a world on the frontiers of Ultramar. Once a battleground against the orks, Sycorax is now under furious assault from an enemy of ancient times – the necrons. The Ultramarines have faced these baleful xenos before, but Uriel senses the hand of a foe from his past at work on Sycorax, a tally unfinished and a debt to the Imperium finally come due.

A suicide assault has destroyed the life support system of a major waystation. All that is known about the young men responsible is that in their last living moments, they were receiving messages from an uninhabited sector of space and were playing a virtual reality game. Two unlikely allies have joined forces to investigate the incident: Ru Gaya, a mercenary explorer with a taste for high risk ventures, and game designer Micah Bello, who must find the parties responsible for the attack in order to clear his name.

This novel is set in the near future, where human genome editing has become routine. First adopted to fight a lethal virus, it is now widely used to prevent diseases and favor other traits. Ben, Eiko, Celia, Raphael, and Leo have just had their coming-of-age genome reading and are struggling with this new information each for their own reasons. Soon, they are cast into the middle of a crisis that threatens the future of their society and pits it against a parallel, but strictly separated, society where genome manipulation is forbidden on religious grounds.

In the aftermath of an asteroid impact, Earth’s power grid is damaged nearly beyond recovery. The survival of our world may well depend on energy sources collected from an abandoned undersea settlement beneath the icy surface of Enceladus. Earth-raised Colonel Carter Rhodes, in charge of Earth’s recovery efforts, calls upon Gwen Baré, a Venusian engineer, to regain control of the deserted moon outpost and collect fuel for Earth’s collapsing power grids.

Carolyn’s parents did not, after all, make genomics history by synthesizing her genome in a lab. She has known she is the “Human Hoax” ever since a high school genetics exercise revealed she has trisomy X - a chromosomal abnormality - yet no synthetically constructed genome would have such clear traces of natural conception. Many years later, as a molecular biologist, Carolyn hopes her colleagues never learn of her embarrassing origins. But when someone ransacks her office and lab, she finds professional embarrassment is the least of her worries.

Across the world, thousands of people are shocked by a notification that they once chose to have a memory removed. Now they are being given an opportunity to get that memory back. Four individuals are filled with new doubts, grappling with the unexpected question of whether to remember unknown events, or to leave them buried forever.

The Union-Congregate war rages onward, and the Union's premier fighter pilots, the Homo Eridanus, start encountering deadly resistance from strange pilots on the Congregate side. Among wreckage, they find that new Congregate pilots aren't human, but Homo quantus, with strange wiring and AI connections. At the same time, the Puppets come to the Union with offers of an alliance for a dangerous price: the rescue of the geneticist Antonio Del Casal who is a captive at Venus, with over a hundred Homo quantus.