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Ancestor is the world's most-popular "podcast novel." A serialized audiobook delivered in 20 weekly episodes, Ancestor's first run played to an audience of more than 30,000 die-hard fans in 31 countries. All told, fans have downloaded more than 700,000 episodes of Ancestor. En route to a... read more
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Every five minutes, a transplant candidate dies while waiting for a heart, a liver, a kidney. Imagine a technology that could provide those life-saving transplant organs for a nominal fee ... and imagine what a company would do to get a monopoly on that technology.
On a remote island in... read more (warning: may contain spoilers)
Characters/People edit
- P.J. Colding: Head of Genada on site security; former CIA agent
- Colonel Paul Fischer: CIA operative specializing in investigating transgenic companies; Coldings former CIA partner.
- Dr. Claus Rhumkorrf: Head Geneticist
- Dr. Liu Jiandan (Jian): Bioinformatics scientist and genome specialist
- Danté Paglione: CEO of the Privately owned bio tech company Genada
- Liu Jian Dan: Chinese geneticist employed by Genada to create a new mammal with her "God Machine" and her genius, mentally unbalanced.
- Claus Rhumkorrf: German scientist focused on winning a Nobel Prize for his work on xenotransplantation with Genada, no matter the cost.
- Magnus Paglione: Head of Security; brother of Dante
- Sara Purinam: A Pilot
- Paul Fischer: USAMRIID official charged with shutting down all xenotransplantation operations across the globe. Enemy of P.J. Colding.
- Clayton Detweiler: Janitor/grounds keeper of Black Manitou, was quite a wild bull in his youth
- Tim Feely: Assistant to Liu Jian Dan, talented scientist and a drunk.
- Andy Crosthwaite: a very much hated security guard
- P.J. Colding: Director of the Genada xenotransplantation program, lost his wife to a virus that damaged her heart, focused on saving millions of lives through transplants from created mammals.
- Sven Ballantine: farmer of cows
- Gunther: a security guard
- Gary Detweiler: Son of Clayton Detweiler former beach bum and druggie, captain of the only boat on Black Manitou Island.
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- Cappy: One of the "Twins" on Sara's team
- Mookie
- Erika Hoel
- James
- P. J.
- Miller: one of the "Twins" on Sara's team
- Stephanie
- Sikorski
- Murray Longworth
- Galina Poriskova
- Erika
- Bobby Valentine
- God Machine: a machine created by Jian
- Rhumkorrl
- Genada: the primary company
- Bubbah
- Ted Nugent
- Sigler
- Clarissa
- Harold
- Otto Ii
- Molly
- Rhumkorri
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First Sentence edit
Paul Fischer had always pictured the end of the world being a bit more...industrial.
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- Scott Sigler (Author)
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Page Count: 432
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- Dewey: 813
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