Titres dans Génie génétique

En 1859, Léon Renault revient à Fontainebleau, après avoir passé trois ans en Russie en qualité d'ingénieur des mines. Parmi les cadeaux qu'il a ramenés à ses proches et à sa fiancée Clémentine, il y a le colonel Fougas, qu'il a acheté pour 25 napoléons, et dont le corps a été desséché en 1813. Fougas n'avait que 24 ans et était militaire dans l'armée napoléonienne. Une oreille lui est accidentellement cassée. Après un bain spécial, le colonel ressuscite. À l'apparition de Clémentine, il croit reconnaître sa bien-aimée qui lui a donné un fils... Il perturbe ainsi la vie de tout le monde.

In the Nevada desert, an experiment has gone horribly wrong. A cloud of nanoparticles, micro-robots, has escaped from the laboratory. This cloud is self-sustaining and self-reproducing. It is intelligent and learns from experience. For all practical purposes, it is alive.

Unzählige Menschen verlassen Hyperion und suchen Schutz auf anderen Welten im besiedelten Teil der Galaxis. Doch eine kleine Gruppe von Pilgern reist zu diesem Planeten, um dort das Geheimnis um die Zeitgräber zu lösen, die sich scheinbar aus der Zukunft kommend rückwärts in der Zeit bewegen. In ihre Geschichten werden langsam aber sicher die Hintergründe klar - Dinge, die unter der Oberfläche des "Netzes" geschehen. Im Tal der Zeitgräber treffen sie auf das Shrike - und wo sich die Zukunft der menschlichen Zivilisation entscheidet...

Tony Platz had the respect of his peers, a career on the fast track, and the body of an Olympian. There was only one problem: It was an open secret he carried a torch for his already-married partner. When a raid put her in the hospital and finally exposed her husband's ongoing infidelity, Tony got shipped out to Oolytau. Tayra Manes worked hard, graduated the academy, and became the first of her kind to join the Non-Human Investigative Corps. There was only one problem: She was a griffin, and not everyone approved of her being allowed to serve in the previously all-human NHIC.

The breathtaking debut from acclaimed short story writer Derek Kunsken. Belisarius is a quantum man, an engineered Homo quantus who fled the powerful insight of dangerously addictive quantum senses. He found a precarious balance as a con man, but when a client offers him untold wealth to move a...

War rages on. All seems lost to this immense devastation. Across the galaxy, humanity's last hope may lie in wait. The Naked God is the epic, thrilling conclusion to the Night's Dawn trilogy, from Peter F. Hamilton. The Confederation is verging on collapse, unable to prevent the enemy from...

Dark powers have been unleashed across the galaxy. Will the Alchemist be humanity's saviour – or its doom? Following on from The Reality Dysfunction, The Neutronium Alchemist is the second epic novel in the Night's Dawn trilogy by Peter F. Hamilton. A seemingly unstoppable force has entered...

He's found a way to end their war, but will humanity survive to see it? Lords of Uncreation is the final high-octane instalment in the Final Architecture space opera trilogy. From Adrian Tchaikovsky, author of Children of Time and winner of the Arthur C. Clarke Award. The series is read by...

A strange plague called the "Gets" is decimating humanity on a global scale. It causes people to forget - small things at first, like where they left their keys... then the not-so-small things like how to drive, or the letters of the alphabet. Then their bodies forget how to function involuntarily - and there is no cure. But now, far below the surface of the Pacific Ocean, deep in the Marianas Trench, an heretofore unknown substance hailed as "ambrosia" has been discovered - a universal healer, from initial reports.

Bill Masen, bandages over his wounded eyes, misses the most spectacular meteorite shower England has ever seen. Removing his bandages the next morning, he finds masses of sightless people wandering the city. He soon meets Josella, another lucky person who has retained her sight, and together they leave the city, aware that the safe, familiar world they knew a mere 24 hours before is gone forever. But to survive in this post-apocalyptic world, one must survive the Triffids, strange plants that years before began appearing all over the world.

Im Jahr 2700 - die Erde ist durch den Großen Fehler bereits vor langem zerstört worden - leben die Menschen auf 200 verschiedenen Planeten. Künstliche Intelligenzen - kurz KIs genannt - kontrollieren diese Welten in einem Computernetz. Sie haben sich zu den heimlichen Herrschern über die Menschen erhoben. Auf dem Planeten Hyperion, der außerhalb dieser Kernzone liegt, regiert eine Schreckensgottheit: das Shrike, einem rätselhaftes Wesen, halb organisch, halb mechanisch, und Inbegriff des Schmerzes und der Qual.

From the author of Dune, the greatest SF novel of all time, comes a stunning evocation of alien cultures In the far future, humans and aliens have joined together in a galaxy-wide federation of intelligent species: The Consentiency. But its existence is now threatened by the discovery of a...

A chilling story of hidden evil, The Third Twin is a heart-stopping, spine-tingling thriller from master storyteller and author of Never, Ken Follett. An Impossible Result Jeannie Ferrami, a scientific researcher investigating the behaviour of identical twins who have been raised separately...

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. 

Four hundred degrees! Toxic atmosphere! Gravity beams that crush men in armor like beer cans! Welcome to Infernus. Legion Varus assaults an alien stronghold that's too close to Mother Earth. The battle turns into a meat grinder that chews through soldiers faster than revival machines can spit...

From the award-winning author of Parable of the Sower: After the near-extinction of the human race, one young man with extraordinary gifts will reveal whether the human race can learn from its past and rebuild their future ... or is doomed to self-destruction. In the future, nuclear war has...

In the far-future Ninth World, claves of Aeon Priests help their community understand and use the mysterious technologies of the past. But what happens when a group of these priests uses this knowledge and power to exploit the people who depend on them? In the region of Steremoss, a group of brave individuals are determined to resist this oppression from the shadows. They call themselves the Night Clave.

The Library's operations are expanding. Patrons come and go. Fines levied, books returned. But some dangerous books have been wiped from the system, and only surveillance helps reveal what they are. With some of these books integral to dimensional stability, they have to be retrieved no matter what. Quinn must enlist the help of her assistants and allies to perform rituals capable of locating these books. Some of the information comes too easily, hinting at deception behind every turn. They must navigate the trails before the traps snap shut!

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.

One woman is called upon to rebuild the future of humankind after a nuclear war, in this revelatory post-apocalyptic tale from the award-winning author of Parable of the Sower. When Lilith lyapo wakes from a centuries-long sleep, she finds herself aboard the vast spaceship of the Oankali. She...