The Resource The games, Ted Kosmatka
The games, Ted Kosmatka
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The item The games, Ted Kosmatka represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Chemeketa Cooperative Regional Library Service (CCRLS).This item is available to borrow from 4 library branches. This resource has been enriched with EBSCO NoveList data.
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The item The games, Ted Kosmatka represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Chemeketa Cooperative Regional Library Service (CCRLS).
This item is available to borrow from 4 library branches.
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- Summary
- "This stunning first novel from Nebula Award and Theodore Sturgeon Memorial Award finalist Ted Kosmatka is a riveting tale of science cut loose from ethics. Set in an amoral future where genetically engineered monstrosities fight each other to the death in an Olympic event, The Games envisions a harrowing world that may arrive sooner than you think. Silas Williams is the brilliant geneticist in charge of preparing the U.S. entry into the Olympic Gladiator competition, an internationally sanctioned bloodsport with only one rule: no human DNA is permitted in the design of the entrants. Silas lives and breathes genetics; his designs have led the United States to the gold in every previous event. But the other countries are catching up. Now, desperate for an edge in the upcoming Games, Silas's boss engages an experimental supercomputer to design the genetic code for a gladiator that cannot be beaten. The result is a highly specialized killing machine, its genome never before seen on earth. Not even Silas, with all his genius and experience, can understand the horror he had a hand in making. And no one, he fears, can anticipate the consequences of entrusting the act of creation to a computer's cold logic. Now Silas races to understand what the computer has wrought, aided by a beautiful xenobiologist, Vidonia Joao. Yet as the fast-growing gladiator demonstrates preternatural strength, speed, and--most disquietingly--intelligence, Silas and Vidonia find their scientific curiosity giving way to a most unexpected emotion: sheer terror"--
- Language
- eng
- Label
- The games
- Title
- The games
- Statement of responsibility
- Ted Kosmatka
- Subject
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- Gladiators -- Fiction
- trueOlympic games
- Science -- Societies, etc
- Science -- Societies, etc. -- Fiction
- Science fiction
- Science fiction
- Science fiction
- Science fiction, American
- trueWomen biologists
- trueDNA
- Fiction
- Genetic engineering
- trueGenetic engineering
- Genetic engineering -- Fiction
- trueGeneticists
- Gladiators
- trueGladiators
- trueMonsters
- Monsters
- Monsters -- Fiction
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- "This stunning first novel from Nebula Award and Theodore Sturgeon Memorial Award finalist Ted Kosmatka is a riveting tale of science cut loose from ethics. Set in an amoral future where genetically engineered monstrosities fight each other to the death in an Olympic event, The Games envisions a harrowing world that may arrive sooner than you think. Silas Williams is the brilliant geneticist in charge of preparing the U.S. entry into the Olympic Gladiator competition, an internationally sanctioned bloodsport with only one rule: no human DNA is permitted in the design of the entrants. Silas lives and breathes genetics; his designs have led the United States to the gold in every previous event. But the other countries are catching up. Now, desperate for an edge in the upcoming Games, Silas's boss engages an experimental supercomputer to design the genetic code for a gladiator that cannot be beaten. The result is a highly specialized killing machine, its genome never before seen on earth. Not even Silas, with all his genius and experience, can understand the horror he had a hand in making. And no one, he fears, can anticipate the consequences of entrusting the act of creation to a computer's cold logic. Now Silas races to understand what the computer has wrought, aided by a beautiful xenobiologist, Vidonia Joao. Yet as the fast-growing gladiator demonstrates preternatural strength, speed, and--most disquietingly--intelligence, Silas and Vidonia find their scientific curiosity giving way to a most unexpected emotion: sheer terror"--
- Assigning source
- Provided by publisher
- http://library.link/vocab/ext/novelist/bookUI
- 10078698
- Cataloging source
- DLC
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorDate
- 1973-
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Kosmatka, Ted
- Dewey number
- 813/.6
- Index
- no index present
- LC call number
- PS3611.O74923
- LC item number
- G36 2012
- Literary form
- fiction
- NLM call number
- Kosmatka, T.
- http://library.link/vocab/resourcePreferred
- True
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
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- Gladiators
- Monsters
- Genetic engineering
- Science
- Genetic engineering
- Gladiators
- Monsters
- Science
- Label
- The games, Ted Kosmatka
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
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- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Control code
- ocn733231776
- Dimensions
- 25 cm
- Extent
- 360 pages
- Isbn
- 9780345526618
- Lccn
- 2011042718
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- n
- System control number
- (OCoLC)733231776
- Label
- The games, Ted Kosmatka
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
-
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Control code
- ocn733231776
- Dimensions
- 25 cm
- Extent
- 360 pages
- Isbn
- 9780345526618
- Lccn
- 2011042718
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- n
- System control number
- (OCoLC)733231776
Subject
- Gladiators -- Fiction
- trueOlympic games
- Science -- Societies, etc
- Science -- Societies, etc. -- Fiction
- Science fiction
- Science fiction
- Science fiction
- Science fiction, American
- trueWomen biologists
- trueDNA
- Fiction
- Genetic engineering
- trueGenetic engineering
- Genetic engineering -- Fiction
- trueGeneticists
- Gladiators
- trueGladiators
- trueMonsters
- Monsters
- Monsters -- Fiction
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