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Chimera by Will Shetterly
Private investigator Chase Maxwell is about to lose the rent in a poker game when a beautiful, mysterious woman walks into his life. He learns too late that his new employer, Zoe Domingo, is a chimera, a "critter," a genetically-engineered mix of human and animal genes.
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Slan by A. E. van Vogt
Jommy Cross is a slan, a genetically bred superhuman whose race was created to aid humanity but is now despised by "normal" humans. Slans are usually shot on sight, but that doesn't stop Jommy's mother from bringing him to see the world capital of Centropolis, the seat of power for Earth's dictator, Kier Gray. But on their latest trip to Centropolis, the two slans are discovered, and Jommy's mother is killed. Jommy, only 9 years old, unwittingly becomes caught up in a plot to undermine Gray, who may be more sympathetic to slans than the public suspects. The nonstop action and root-for-the-underdog plot has made Slan a science fiction favorite.
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Wyrms by Orson Scott Card
Patience, a fifteen-year-old girl, is the only daughter of the rightful king the Heptarch. Her father, Peace, willingly lives as a slave to the usurper King Oruc, serving him as a faithful diplomat and assassin. Despite his genuine belief that King Oruc is "the best Heptarch the world could hope for at this time", Peace ensures that Patience learns the skills she will need as future Heptarch through the stern lessons of her tutor Angel. From an early age, Patience is fluent in dozens of languages, trained in diplomatic protocols and assassination techniques, and taught to be guarded and watchful at all times.
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Camouflage by Joe Haldeman
A million years prior to the dawn of Homo sapiens, two immortal, shapeshifting aliens roam the Earth with little memory of their origin or their purpose. Later in the year 2019, an artifact is discovered off the coast of Samoa, buried deep beneath the ocean floor. The mysterious find brings two alien beings--the "changeling" and the "chameleon"--together again, to ponder the meaning of the object and its relationship to each other. Both immortals try to seek each other out and use the artifact to find their origins, one harbouring good intentions while the other is extremely hostile.
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An Accidental Goddess by Linnea Sinclair
Raheiran Special Forces captain Gillaine Davré has just woken up in some unknown space station, wondering where the last three hundred and forty-two years have gone. The last thing she remembers is her ship being attacked. Now it seems that while she was time-traveling, she was ordained a goddess.
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Blind Waves by Steven Gould
Steven Gould's novel Blind Waves is set in the near future. Patricia Beenan lives on a floating city called New Galveston and operates a small submarine for performing underwater salvage and inspections. One day, she finds a newly-sunken ship. Hoping to find something salvageable, she instead the bodies of a bunch of dead people who had been locked in the ships hold.
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Greenwar by Steven Gould and Laura J. Mixon
In the environmental thriller Greenwar, Emma Tooke is the designer and manager of Gulf Stream I, a sea platform off the Florida coast that harvests energy and food from the sea. She's assigned a new environmental compliance manager, Keith Hellman, just as a hurricane bears down on the facility. Unbeknownst to Emma, Keith is actually an EPA officer working with the FBI to thwart an eco-terrorist attack on Gulf Stream I.
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