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A carregar... Invasive Procedurespor Orson Scott Card, Aaron Johnston (Autor)
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Adira ao LibraryThing para descobrir se irá gostar deste livro. Ainda não há conversas na Discussão sobre este livro. Good beginning, but petered out quickly. ( ) Los ''curadores'', con sus musculosos y fuertes cuerpos escondidos tras negras capas, se mueven sigilosamente por las calles de la ciudad recogiendo indigentes y, sobre todo, curando enfermedades y proporcionando esperanza a los desahuciados. Usan un virus adaptado al genoma de cada paciente para eliminar enfermedades geneticas hasta hoy incurables: la enfermedad de Parkinson, la corea de Huntington, la fibrosis quistica, etc. Pero ese mismo virus, cuando alcanza a otros seres humanos, es el vector de una muerte segura tras escasos minutos de atroces sufrimientos. La Agencia de Riesgos Biologicos (ARB) enfrentada al peor virus conocido, ha de recurrir a la ayuda del doctor Frank Hartman, un brillante virologo que parece haber desarrollado un antivirus eficaz. Los ''curadores'' son tambien seguidores de un nuevo culto religioso y de un nuevo Profeta que promete un futuro sin enfermedades y una mejora de la especie humana gracias a su dominio de la medicina genetica. ¿Cual ha de ser el mejor futuro para la especie humana: el que propone ese visionario Profeta o el que defiende la ARB? I adore Orson Scott Card. I think that he's one of the most imaginative authors of our time. Invasive Procedures, a joint effort by him and Aaron Johnston was exciting. I don't usually like thrillers, which this definitely was, but I enjoyed it. In this story a geneticist goes a bit bonkers and creates a religion of sorts with him, of course, as the fearless leader. He has the ability to change a person's DNA to make them stronger, healthier, and cure genetic diseases by injecting them with a virus designed just for them. Exciting and scary! A good summer read. sem críticas | adicionar uma crítica
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HTML: George Galen is a brilliant scientist, a pioneer in gene therapy. But Galen is dangerously insane. He has created a method to alter human DNA, not just to heal diseases, but also to ??improve? people: make them stronger, make them able to heal more quickly?and make them compliant to his will. Frank Hartman is also a brilliant virologist, working for the government??s ultra-secret biohazard agency. He has discovered how to neutralize Galen??s DNA-changing virus. Now he is the one man who stands in the way of Galen??s plan to "improve" the entire human race. This taut thriller takes the listener a few years into the future and shows the promise and danger of new genetic medicin Não foram encontradas descrições de bibliotecas. |
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Google Books — A carregar... GénerosSistema Decimal de Melvil (DDC)813.54Literature English (North America) American fiction 20th Century 1945-1999Classificação da Biblioteca do Congresso dos EUA (LCC)AvaliaçãoMédia:
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