Cross-posted on ReaderlingWhen my Grandma was a girl, she was told by a Catholic priest that Protestants had tails hidden under their clothes. Maybe they had cloven hooves too, or that might have been Jews, but either way, Protestants weren't rightly human. I don't think my Grandma ever went so far ...
ISBN: 9781600606625 Publisher: Lee & Low BooksPages: 373 Best friends Kayla and Mishalla know they will be separated when the time comes for their Assignments. They are GENs, Genetically Engineered Non-humans, and in their strict caste system, GENs are at the bottom rung of society. High-status true...
Kayla is a GEN, a tankborn person whose purpose is to serve others. While in the tank, their DNA is sliced with DNA from animals granting a skill set (known as sket) that will prove useful once they hit sixteen and are given their permanent work assignment. They have no parents and are placed in hom...
Opening: "Kayla hunched on the bank of the Chadi River while below her, Jal, her slender, black-skinned nurture brother, skipped from one deep pool of the river to another, searching for sewer toads." I picked this one up because I had seen it sitting on the new book shelf at work and then I saw a c...
Kayla è una NGM, una non umana geneticamente modificata: concepita artificialmente in una capsula, presenta parte di DNA di origine animale. Tale DNA è in grado di dare ai soggetti che lo posseggono particolari caratteristiche: nel caso di Kayla, un'enorme forza nelle braccia. A questo punto probabi...
This is a young adult book that makes you stop and think. In the future, babies are created in tanks, mixing human and animal DNA to create their specialty (strength, nurturing), then are raised until the age of 15 when they get assigned a job. They are treated as "non-human", beneath all "trueborn"...
Read the full review here.This is a well executed science fiction novel with a riveting plot and many underlying themes that provoke thought long after the last page is turned. The world building is amazing - from the descriptions of the landscapes and arachnid based fauna (eep!), to the holograms w...
Read This Review & More Like It On My Blog!Tankborn surprised me. What I initially assumed was simply a run-of-the-mill, churn-'em-out-quick young-adult dystopia, Tankborn emerges as a strong novel with compelling adult-ish themes about defining what humanity and beauty mean to every individual. Clo...
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