04160cam a2200349 4500 527287430 TxAuBib 20211107120000.0 ||||||s2012||||||||||||||||||||||||und|u 9780307987525 0307987523 edf52453-cdde-43ef-8734-5965bd217fee OverDrive (Reserve ID) 593605 OverDrive (Product ID) TxAuBib Kosmatka, Ted. The Games [Libby]. Penguin Random House Audio Publishing Group, 2012. Format: OverDrive OverDrive MP3 Audiobook, Filesize: 320MB. Format: OverDrive OverDrive Listen, Filesize: 320MB. Fiction. Science Fiction. Thriller. HTML:Jurassic Park meets The Hunger Games in this stunning new high-energy, high-concept tale from first-time novelist Ted Kosmatka, a Nebula Award and Theodore Sturgeon Memorial Award finalist.   NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY PUBLISHERS WEEKLY 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 João. 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. Praise for The Games   “Blends the best of Crichton and Koontz.”—Publishers Weekly (starred review)   “Outstanding . . . very like something Michael Crichton might have written . . . [a] bold mix of horror and SF . . . Expect big things from [Ted] Kosmatka.”—Booklist (starred review)   “Kosmatka successfully captures the thrill of groundbreaking technology. . . . The pleasure of his polished, action-packed storytelling is deepened by strong character development. This near-future SF thriller . . . seems destined for the big screen.”—Library Journal (starred review.) Media Type: Audiobook. Importer Version: 2014-01-08.01 Import Date: 2021-11-04 17:40:22. Brick, Scott. https://excerpts.cdn.overdrive.com/FormatType-25/1191-1/593605-TheGames.wma Excerpt (OverDrive MP3 Audiobook) https://excerpts.cdn.overdrive.com/FormatType-425/1191-1/593605-TheGames.mp3 Excerpt (OverDrive MP3 Audiobook) https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=EDF52453-CDDE-43EF-8734-5965BD217FEE&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (OverDrive MP3 Audiobook) https://excerpts.cdn.overdrive.com/FormatType-25/1191-1/593605-TheGames.wma Excerpt (OverDrive Listen) https://excerpts.cdn.overdrive.com/FormatType-425/1191-1/593605-TheGames.mp3 Excerpt (OverDrive Listen) https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=EDF52453-CDDE-43EF-8734-5965BD217FEE&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (OverDrive Listen)