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In a future where humans teeter on the brink of extinction, hope lies in the genetic experiments of Katie Marsh. A brilliant young scientist, Katie is hard at work perfecting a new species of humanoid resistant to the devastating virus afflicting mankind. But not everyone wants Katie to... read more
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In a future where humans teeter on the brink of extinction, hope lies in the genetic experiments of Katie Marsh. A brilliant young scientist, Katie is hard at work perfecting a new species of humanoid resistant to the devastating virus afflicting mankind. But not everyone wants Katie to... read more (warning: may contain spoilers)
Characters edit
- Katie Marsh: A brilliant young scientist working on genetic experiments, who was trying to discover why the saphers could not carry a pregnancy to term
- Ryder Stone: A 'lab rat' genetically created to resist a deadly virus that is killing mankind, Evie's father
- Robert Nelson: A captain at ASP, in charge of security at the facility
- Mike McLoughlin: A member of a Sapher Rights Group with a hidden agenda who has befriended Katie
- Matt Slater: An ASP guard
- Henry Marsh: Katie's father, a genetic scientist
- Leanne: A teenaged sapher
- Stuart Mann: An ASP guard
- Evelyn "Evie": A teenaged sapher, Ryder's daughter, pregnant
- Edward Peters: An ASP guard, recently hired
- Dr. Marguerite "Margie" Hamilton: Katie's boss
- Jessica: A teenaged sapher who had miscarried
- Dane Samuels: Ryder's best friend, a sapher
- Jory Lambdin: The five-year-old son of an immunologist who looked up to Ryder
- Chen: A laboratory technician
- Felipe Gonzales: An ASP guard
- Richardson: An ASP guard
- Dr. Sally Parker: A researcher studying sapher regeneration
- Stephanie: Nelson's oldest daughter
- Conway: An ASP guard
- Dr. Stephen Barnes: A researcher at the center
- Tom Berk: The VP of marketing and Public Relations at the center
- Pavel "Puff": A sapher who had it out for Ryder
- Senator Jamison: An Arizona Senator trying to pass legislation to have saphers recognized as people, granting them civil rights
- Porter: An ASP guard
- Kline: An ASP guard
- Nathan Palmer: A human man infected with the Molio virus
Setting & Locations edit
First Sentence edit
Protestors marched up and down the public sidewalk outside the Center for Human Genetic Advancement, chanting "Free the saphers."
Table of Contents edit
Chapters 1 - 15
Glossary edit
- Moliomyositis: A deadly virus killing off the human population
- Saphers: Genetically altered homo sapiens, having been crossed with reptilian DNA, immune to Molio, not legally considered human
- ASP (and ASAP): Arizona Security and Policing
- Homo Sapiens Sapiens: Humans
- Homo Sapiens Heredis: Saphers
First Edition edit
Original Language: English
Publisher: Peach Orchard Press
Country: USA
Publication Date: November 29, 2010
ISBN: 978-1453802748
Page Count: 244
Publisher: Peach Orchard Press
Country: USA
Publication Date: November 29, 2010
ISBN: 978-1453802748
Page Count: 244
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