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Augmented Genesis by Tony Southcotte Read more here!
The continued advancement of technology has brought about a synthetic evolution in the human species. Biology and technology mesh to create an augmented world, for which users perceive through altered vision, enhanced bodies, and built in gadgetry. Metabolism, immune functionality, and other natural processes are controlled through implants.
Dependence on this new technology would be an understatement, so when an electromagnetic storm destroys the hardware, chaos ensues. Mutations, implant induced disease, and panic grip the world. Only the lowest class, those whose bodies rejected the implants, remain capable of making things right.

Brought to Life by Richard S. Crawford Read more here!
It's the epic story of Boris, the first synthetic person, and the challenges he faces as he tries to establish his own identity.

Fledgling Wings by Angelica A. Read more here!
A young boy named Jonas is a normal teenager. Except for the fact that he is a chimera, a hybrid of human and animal DNA that exceeds 10%. He has enough trouble coping with that, but then his friend David disappears. Now he must discover where his friend is and the secrets behind his disappearance and of all chimeras.

Kalopsiac Green by Karen Llamas Read more here!
Thomas and Felix are your average lower than middle class teenagers in the near future, whose mothers sold their bodies to science. Amidst a world with many marvels from altered foods to altered people, they know all too well this isn't exactly the destiny that sci-fi novelists spoke of.

Lyghts by Lyvie Hallman Taylor Read more here!
The human body contains billions of miles of DNA. The human heart beats three billion times in a lifetime. This DNA, these beating hearts, what really controls us; is it science or love that drives us? An overly sympathetic scientist wished to combine the two, to efface boundaries between what must be and what can be. She finds hope in LYGHT: specific DNA codes that enhance everything from physical attraction to touches that are able to physically and emotionally heal a partner. But her two prized experiments grow up to be disobedient. They try some “experiments”- Lyl in aesthetic body modifications, and Michael in self-inflicted scars. Mutating their appearance to the point where physical attraction is out of the question, the two are branded failures, they are left to rot in a city as lonely and grungy as they are. While disgusted by each other when they first meet, they can’t help but feel a connection. The almost-catalysts protect each other. DNA sequences go on. Hearts continue to beat. Lights turn on.

Machmen by Kay Proctor Read more here!
"Robots turn the tables and program humans to obey the Three Laws of Robotics - for better or for worse."
Late in the 23rd century, there exists an era of peace and honesty. The concept of war is nearly eliminated, the night streets are safe, and there is no fear of a politician lying for money or power. But how?
In an underground facility just a century before, the first self-sufficient robot was born, so to speak. Alpha was improved upon and its younger sibling, Beta, followed soon afterward. Mentored by Dr. Dorothea Calvin Parker, both Alpha and Beta grew in their understanding of the human race. They learned of human history, current affairs, strengths, and weaknesses, and came to one conclusion: Humans needed to be fixed. All it took was a small chip in the brain, not unlike what was inside Beta, that made humans subject to the three Laws that they gave it. Chaos followed, but after one hundred years life has gone on. Has it improved?

Perfect Monster by Maggie Burns Read more here!
This is the story of a medical researcher who commits crimes against humanity to stop a war, then from exile tries to save the world from the terrible fallout of his acts.

Progress Unbound by David Scheidl
In the not too distant future, humanity has expanded into twelve other star systems. With this expansion has come a shedding of morality. Science has raced ahead, heedless of any consequences. Now, as each planet pursues its own goal of attaining genetic perfection, we have come full circle.
Basically Earth, after throwing away the religious morality that had been a part of Western civilization had managed to create numerous examples of augmented humans who then went out to colonize distant planets. These colonies continued the experiments as a means of being able to better survive in their new environments with the same heedlessness which had characterized Old Earth's scientific community in the late 21st century. Earth meanwhile has experienced a moral revival and is now determined to limit in some way the scientific excesses of her daughter colonies.

Twice by Vivian Rivera Read more here!
"The world you know now is a lie. Joseph Kadlowski was a homeless man who drowned himself in poison. He found the truth to all the sugar-coated stories and was killed because he knew too much. It isn't safe to say he was murdered because he's still alive. He's just not in his own body. If you had a chance to live life twice... would you take it knowing there was a price?"
This novel is about 21-year-old Joseph Kadlowski. The story begins with Joe waking up numb and alone with a slip of paper on his body. That little slip of paper is his obituary. As this mind-twisting story unfolds, Joseph learns that he has been killed and his soul transferred into a government-made body that will forever change his perspective on reality. The government is using new technology that captures the essence of the human soul and places it into bodies made by special labs of the MBA (Mindless Being Association). Think of this as a sort of "Frankenstein-ish" tale with high-tech gadgets and wild rides that will leave the reader craving more...