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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.
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Blood Music
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.
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.
The Terminal Experiment
Peter Hobson, a Toronto biomedical engineer who has detected the soul leaving the body at death, makes three digital copies of his own mind, and one of them starts killing people.
Moving Mars
Casseia Majumdar, a young student from one of the family clans that run Mars, is drawn into the politics of the colonies as Earth tightens its grip.
Feed
In 2039, twenty years after cures for cancer and the common cold combined into a virus that raises the dead, the blogging siblings Georgia and Shaun Mason are picked to follow a presidential campaign.
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.
Hominids
Ponter Boddit, a Neanderthal physicist from a parallel Earth where his species survived, is accidentally transported into a neutrino detector deep under Ontario.
Timescape
In 1998, with the world dying of ecological collapse, Cambridge scientists try to warn the past using tachyons, and in 1962 a young physicist in California picks up the strange noise in his experiment and tries to make sense of it.
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.
Forever Peace
In 2043, Julian Class, a physics professor, spends ten days a month linked mind to mind with his platoon, operating remote combat machines in an endless war in Central America.
A Song for a New Day
After attacks and a pandemic have banned public gatherings, Luce, who played the last big concert, plays illegal shows, while Rosemary, who has never seen live music, is hired to find bands for a company that streams them.
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.