Set in a bleak near future where an electromagnetic pulse has plunged the country into economic and political collapse, Max is a sexy, genetically engineered woman on the run from her military creators. She is determined to remain free even as she searches for others of her kind.

Explains why biotechnology is a relevant and volatile issue. Begins with a history of biotechnology and its effect on agriculture, medicine, and the environment. Equal space is devoted to discussing the efforts of human-rights advocates, animal-rights advocates, and environmentalists to create definitive governmental regulations for this budding industry.

The SymboGen designed tapeworms were created to relieve humanity of disease and sickness. But the implants in the majority of the world's population began attacking their hosts turning them into a ravenous horde. Now those who do not appear to be afflicted are being gathered for quarantine as panic spreads, but Sal and her companions must discover how the tapeworms are taking over their hosts, what their eventual goal is, and how they can be stopped....

"Lilith Saintcrow's most commercial novel yet, set in a dystopian America rebuilding from the ashes of a second civil war. History is written by the victors; but when you've been fighting your fellow patriots, your own brothers and sisters, does anyone really win? As the dust settles after a devastating second American civil war, the work of rebuilding begins. But can a population who's spent years divided and hell-bent on victory at any cost ever...

Genetically engineered tapeworms that protect most of the human populace from illness, boost everyone's immune system, and even secrete designer drugs begin to change and want out of human bodies they occupy.

"Maximum Ride and her broken flock roam a postapocalyptic world, searching for answers to what happened"-- Provided by publisher.

Heartbroken after her best friend and soul mate, Fang, leaves her flock, Maximum Ride begins to believe the evil scientists trying to convince her she needs to save the world, and that Dylan, the newest member of her flock, is her perfect mate.

The time has come for Max,Fang, Iggy, Nudge, Gasman, and Angel to face their ultimate enemy and, despite many obstacles, try to save the world from a sinister plan to re-engineer a select population into a scientifically superior master race.

In an alternate 1914 Europe, fifteen-year-old Austrian Prince Alek, on the run from the Clanker Powers who are attempting to take over the globe using mechanical machinery, forms an uneasy alliance with Deryn who, disguised as a boy to join the British Air Service, is learning to fly genetically-engineered beasts.