Hur, Anton
Summary: In a near-future world, a new technological therapy is quickly eradicating cancer: The body’s cells are entirely replaced with nanites—robot or android cells that not only cure those afflicted but leave them virtually immortal. At the same time, literary researcher Yonghun teaches an AI how to understand poetry and creates a living, thinking machine he names Panit, meaning "Beloved," in honor...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper Via, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2024
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Summary: Jenny Lowe, a primatologist studying chimpanzees, is running for her life with the child of a murdered fellow scientist after a civil war explodes. Jenny grabbing the notebooks of the primatologist who's been killed. She brings the girl to Chicago to await the discovery of her relatives. The girl is fifteen and lovely, her name is Lucy. Realizing that the child has no living relatives, Jenny...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A Knopf 2010
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Summary: Naissa Nolan is a happy child in 1850s Philadelphia until tragedy strikes while she and her family are on holiday. Alone and heartbroken, she is thrust into an immortal life she never bargained for or imagined. Naissa spends the next few centuries on Earth desperate to learn more about her condition. While working with the esteemed Oberlin Institute in Vienna, she makes an important discovery...
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Publisher / Publication Date: CamCat Books 2024
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Summary: One spring morning in New York City, a seventeen-year-old girl wakes up feeling vaguely ill. Hours later, she is having violent seizures and has begun a hideous process of self-cannibalization. She is soon dead. When other gruesome deaths of a similar nature are discovered, the CDC sends a pathologist to investigate. What she finds precipitates a federal crisis.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 1997