In a book that invites readers to start at either end or alternate between perspectives, Lyra and Gemma get the chance to escape from the protective environments in which they were raised while uncovering secrets about the bioresearch facility that connects them.

Twelve-year-old Fisher Bas and the clone he created try to prevent a mad scientist and his evil clone brother from trying to take over the world through a behavior-altering television program.

"The dawn of rebellion! Cable used to be a grizzled old veteran of dozens of wars to save the future...and someday he will be again. But for now, he's a young mutant living in paradise and leading a life of adventure! Nathan Summers, son of two of the most powerful mutants on Krakoa, knows he has a destiny to lead the youth of mutantkind in rebellion... so why not start now? Mutant babies have started going missing, and Cable takes that sort of thing...

Folklorist Rosa Medina investigates a purported government agency that is cloning monsters--a combination of ChupaCabras and aliens--intended to take over the world.

Shiro Kamiya, the son of a teacher at St. Kleio Academy and the only student who is not a clone of a famous historical figure, wonders what he is doing there and what the real purpose of the school might be.

"As children Kathy, Ruth, and Tommy were students at Hailsham, an exclusive boarding school secluded in the English countryside. It was a place of mercurial cliques and mysterious rules where teachers were constantly reminding their charges of how special they were. Now, years later, Kathy is a a young woman. Ruth and Tommy have reentered her life. And for the first time she is beginning to look back at their shared past and understand just what...

On a remote jungle island, genetic engineers have created a dinosaur game park. But as always there is a dark side to the fantasy and after a catastrophe destroys the park's defence systems, the scientists and tourists are left fighting for survival.