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<b>Augmented Genesis by Tony Southcotte </b><a href="http://tsouthcotte.blogspot.com">Read more here!</a><br/>
<b>Augmented Genesis by Tony Southcotte </b><a href="http://tsouthcotte.blogspot.com">Read more here!</a><br/>
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. <br/>
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. <br/>
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<b>Brought to Life by Richard S. Crawford </b><a href="http://www.underpope.com/broughttolife">Read more here!</a><br/>
<b>Brought to Life by Richard S. Crawford </b><a href="http://www.underpope.com/broughttolife">Read more here!</a><br/>
It's the epic story of Boris, the first synthetic person, and the challenges he faces as he tries to establish his own identity.
It's the epic story of Boris, the first synthetic person, and the challenges he faces as he tries to establish his own identity.
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<b>Fledgling Wings by Angelica A. </b><a href="https://docs.google.com/document/d/10qbAwa7wtxzG6Adf1lDM2r7chahdIceu4WXzPHe8QXU/edit#">Read more here!</a><br/>
<b>Fledgling Wings by Angelica A. </b><a href="https://docs.google.com/document/d/10qbAwa7wtxzG6Adf1lDM2r7chahdIceu4WXzPHe8QXU/edit#">Read more here!</a><br/>
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.
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.
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<b>Kalopsiac Green by Karen Llamas </b><a href="http://kalopsiacgreen.blogspot.com/">Read more here!</a><br/>
<b>Kalopsiac Green by Karen Llamas </b><a href="http://kalopsiacgreen.blogspot.com/">Read more here!</a><br/>
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.</p>
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.</p>
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<b>Lyghts by Lyvie Hallman Taylor </b><a href="http://www.nanowrimo.org/eng/user/589274">Read more here!</a><br/>
<b>Lyghts by Lyvie Hallman Taylor </b><a href="http://www.nanowrimo.org/eng/user/589274">Read more here!</a><br/>
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The human body contains billions of miles of DNA. The human heart beats measure three billion in a lifetime. What really controls us; is it science or love that drives us? A sympathetic scientist wished to combine the two, to efface boundaries between what must be and what can be, to unite frigid logic and warm embrace. 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. She creates the beginnings of a couple truly meant to be. But her two prized experiments grow disobedient. They try some “experiments” themselves-Lyl in aesthetic body modifications, and Michael in self-inflicted scars. Mutilating their appearances to the point where physical attraction is out of the question, the two are branded failures and 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.</p>
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The human body contains billions of miles of DNA. The human heart beats measure three billion in a lifetime. What really controls us; is it science or love that drives us? A sympathetic scientist wished to combine the two, to unite frigid logic and warm embrace. She finds hope in LYGHT: specific DNA codes that enhance everything from physical attraction to touches. She creates the beginnings of a couple truly meant to be. But her two prized experiments grow disobedient. They try some “experiments” themselves-Lyl in aesthetic body modifications, and Michael in self-inflicted scars. Mutilating their appearances to the point where physical attraction is out of the question, the two are branded failures and 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. DNA sequences go on. Hearts continue to beat. Lights turn on.</p>
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<b>Machmen by Kay Proctor </b>
<b>Machmen by Kay Proctor </b>
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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?
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?
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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.
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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, they grew in their understanding of the human race 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?
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?
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<b>Perfect Monster by Maggie Burns </b><a href="http://perfect-monster.blogspot.com/">Read more here!</a><br/>
<b>Perfect Monster by Maggie Burns </b><a href="http://perfect-monster.blogspot.com/">Read more here!</a><br/>
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.</p>
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.</p>
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<b>Progress Unbound by David Scheidl</b>
<b>Progress Unbound by David Scheidl</b>
<br/>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.
<br/>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.
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<b>Triple S, Operation: Fowl Play by Tania Knight </b><br/>Contact at capricious_angel AT hotmail.co.uk<br/>  
<b>Triple S, Operation: Fowl Play by Tania Knight </b><br/>Contact at capricious_angel AT hotmail.co.uk<br/>  
Kieran and James are best friends, second year students at the School for the Animorphagally Talented (underage ninjas), aka Triple S Animal division, known as SATUrN. Kingdom and Castle are twins, broken out of a juvenile detention centre to join the Triple S bird division, a new branch of SATUrN going by the name WINGS (Winged Installment of Ninja Ground-to-air Soldiers).<br/>
Kieran and James are best friends, second year students at the School for the Animorphagally Talented (underage ninjas), aka Triple S Animal division, known as SATUrN. Kingdom and Castle are twins, broken out of a juvenile detention centre to join the Triple S bird division, a new branch of SATUrN going by the name WINGS (Winged Installment of Ninja Ground-to-air Soldiers).<br/>
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All of the Triple S are people who won't be missed. Because the government's new technology has allowed them to alter the teenage body, and give it the ability to shift shape. Obviously, this is highly controversial, so economic as ever, MI6 decide to combine 2 secrets - genetic engineering humans, and covert operations. No-one believes that the adorable stray cat was the assassin that did away with their drug-dealing uncle - or sold them out to the police. Between the excitement of missions and the dangers of training, though, secondary school life continues much as normal...
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All of the Triple S are people who won't be missed. The government's new technology has allowed them to alter the teenage body and give it the ability to shift shape. MI6 decides to combine 2 secrets - genetic engineering and covert operations. No-one believes that the adorable stray cat was the assassin that did away with their drug-dealing uncle. Between the excitement of missions and the dangers of training, secondary school life continues much as normal...
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<b>Twice by Vivian Rivera </b><a href="http://www.nanowrimo.org/eng/user/647251">Read more here!</a><br/>
<b>Twice by Vivian Rivera </b><a href="http://www.nanowrimo.org/eng/user/647251">Read more here!</a><br/>
"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?"<br/>
"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?"<br/>
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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...
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This novel is about 21-year-old Joseph Kadlowski. 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).  
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NaNoWriMo



National Novel Writing Month is a fun, seat-of-your-pants approach to novel writing. Participants begin writing November 1. The goal is to write a 175-page (50,000-word) novel by midnight, November 30.

Valuing enthusiasm and perseverance over painstaking craft, NaNoWriMo is a novel-writing program for everyone who has thought fleetingly about writing a novel but has been scared away by the time and effort involved.

As participants spend November writing, they can draw comfort from the fact that, all around the world, other National Novel Writing Month participants are going through the same joys and sorrows of producing the Great Frantic Novel. Wrimos meet throughout the month to offer encouragement, commiseration, and—when the thing is done—the kind of raucous celebrations that tend to frighten animals and small children.

In 2009, NaNoWriMo had 167,150 participants. 32,178 of them crossed the 50k finish line by the midnight deadline, entering into the annals of NaNoWriMo superstardom forever. They started the month as auto mechanics, out-of-work actors, and middle school English teachers. They walked away novelists.