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Vergil Ulam, a brilliant and reckless researcher at a California biotech firm, is ordered to destroy his secret experiment, cells that can think, and smuggles them out of the lab the only way he can, inside his own body.
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Darwin's Radio
A mass grave in Georgia, a frozen Neanderthal family in the Alps and a new virus that causes miscarriages all point to the next step in human evolution.
Contact
Ellie Arroway, a radio astronomer, picks up a signal from the star Vega that turns out to carry the plans for a machine, and the world has to decide whether to build it and who should go.
2001: A Space Odyssey
A mysterious black monolith guides human evolution from ape to astronaut, culminating in a voyage to Jupiter that transforms a man into something beyond human.
Childhood's End
Vast alien ships appear over Earth's cities, and their unseen Overlords end war and want, but the golden age they bring comes at a price humanity cannot yet understand.
Spin
One night the stars go out all at once, and Tyler Dupree and his friends Jason and Diane grow up beneath a mysterious barrier that has sealed the Earth off from the universe, while time outside races by.
The Three-Body Problem
During the Cultural Revolution, astrophysicist Ye Wenjie answers a signal from space, and decades later nanomaterials researcher Wang Miao, investigating a wave of scientists' suicides, is drawn into a strange virtual-reality game and the secret behind it.
Diaspora
In 2975 most of humanity lives as software in polises, and Yatima, a mind born of no parents, comes into being in one of them, not long before a disaster in space threatens the flesh-and-blood humans left on Earth.
Man Plus
As the Cold War edges towards nuclear war, NASA turns Roger Torraway, an astronaut, into a cyborg built to live unprotected on the surface of Mars.
Permutation City
In 2050, when the rich can have themselves scanned and live on as Copies in virtual worlds, Paul Durham runs experiments on his own Copy and then offers a few wealthy Copies a way to live for ever beyond the reach of the real world's computers.
Upgrade
Logan Ramsay, an agent of the Gene Protection Agency in a near future scarred by a genetic-engineering disaster, is exposed during a raid to a virus that starts rewriting his genome and making him smarter than anyone has been.
The Mountain in the Sea
Ha Nguyen, a marine biologist, is brought by a technology corporation to the Con Dao archipelago off Vietnam, now sealed off from the world, to study a species of octopus that may have developed its own language and culture.
Rainbows End
Robert Gu, a famous poet lost to dementia, is cured in 2025 and has to go back to high school to learn a world of wearable computers and overlaid realities, and is drawn into a conspiracy.