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Transhuman
A scientific thriller by six-time Hugo Award winner Ben Bova

Luke Abramson, a brilliant cellular biologist who is battling lung cancer, has one joy in life: his ten-year-old granddaughter, Angela. When Angela is diagnosed with an inoperable brain tumor and given less than six months to live, Luke wants to try a new enzyme, Mortality Factor 4 (MORF4), that he believes will kill Angela's tumor.

However, the hospital bureaucracy won't let him do it because MORF4 has not yet been approved by the FDA. Knowing Angela will die before he can get the treatment approved, Luke abducts her from the hospital with plans to take her to a private research laboratory in Oregon.

But Luke is too old and worn-down to flee across the country with his sick granddaughter, especially with the FBI on their trail. So he injects himself with a genetic factor that stimulates his body's production of telomerase, an enzyme that has successfully reversed aging in animal tests.

As the chase weaves across the country from one research facility to another, Luke begins to grow physically younger, stronger. He looks and feels the way he did thirty or forty years ago. Yet his lung cancer is not abating; if anything the tumors are growing faster.

And Angela is dying.
Sam Gunn Jr.

Sam Gunn Jr.

Ben Bova

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Sam Gunn Jr.

Sam Gunn Jr.

Ben Bova

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Sam Gunn Jr.

Sam Gunn Jr.

Ben Bova

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Privateers

Privateers

Ben Bova

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Power Challenges

Power Challenges

Ben Bova

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My Favorites

My Favorites

Unknown

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My Favorites

My Favorites

Ben Bova

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My Favorites

My Favorites

Ben Bova

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Earth

Earth

Ben Bova

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End of Exile

End of Exile

Ben Bova

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Flight of Exiles

Flight of Exiles

Ben Bova

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Power Failure

Power Failure

Ben Bova

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Exiled from Earth

Exiled from Earth

Ben Bova

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The Science Fiction Hall of Fame, Vol. 2-B

The Science Fiction Hall of Fame, Vol. 2-B

Isaac Asimov, Jack Vance, others

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The Science Fiction Hall of Fame, Vol. 2-A

The Science Fiction Hall of Fame, Vol. 2-A

Poul Anderson, H. G. Wells, others

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Survival

Survival

Ben Bova

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The Best of Bova, Vol. 3

The Best of Bova, Vol. 3

Unknown

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The Best of Bova, Vol. 2

The Best of Bova, Vol. 2

Unknown

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Apes and Angels

Apes and Angels

Ben Bova

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The Best of Bova, Vol. 1

The Best of Bova, Vol. 1

Unknown

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Death Wave

Death Wave

Ben Bova

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Power Surge

Power Surge

Ben Bova

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Peacekeepers

Peacekeepers

Ben Bova

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Future Crime

Future Crime

Ben Bova

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New Frontiers

New Frontiers

Ben Bova

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The Next Logical Step

The Next Logical Step

Ben Bova

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The Next Logical Step

The Next Logical Step

Ben Bova

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The Dueling Machine

The Dueling Machine

Ben Bova

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Again, Dangerous Visions

Again, Dangerous Visions

Unknown

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Partners in Wonder

Partners in Wonder

Harlan Ellison

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Mars, Inc.

Mars, Inc.

Ben Bova

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Colony

Colony

Ben Bova

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New Earth

New Earth

Ben Bova

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The Kinsman Saga

The Kinsman Saga

Ben Bova

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The Winds of Altair

The Winds of Altair

Ben Bova

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Test of Fire

Test of Fire

Ben Bova

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Farside

Farside

Ben Bova

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Moonwar

Moonwar

Ben Bova

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The Trikon Deception

The Trikon Deception

Ben Bova, Bill Pogue

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Power Play

Power Play

Ben Bova

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Sense of Wonder

Sense of Wonder

Unknown

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Powersat

Powersat

Ben Bova

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The Science Fiction MEGAPACK ®

The Science Fiction MEGAPACK ®

Robert Silverberg, Richard A. Lupoff, Samuel R. Delany, Reginald Bretnor, Marion Zimmer Bradley, Algis Budrys, Fredric Brown, John Gregory Betancourt, Poul Anderson, Randall Garrett, Lester del Rey, Ben Bova

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Venus

Venus

Ben Bova

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The Hittite

The Hittite

Ben Bova

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The Hittite

The Hittite

Ben Bova

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Moonwar

Moonwar

Ben Bova

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Mars

Mars

Ben Bova

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Moonrise

Moonrise

Ben Bova

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Able One

Able One

Ben Bova

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The Return

The Return

Ben Bova

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Moonrise

Moonrise

Ben Bova

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Mars Life

Mars Life

Ben Bova

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Return to Mars

Return to Mars

Ben Bova

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Mars

Mars

Ben Bova

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The Green Trap

The Green Trap

Ben Bova

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Voyagers III

Voyagers III

Ben Bova

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The Green Trap

The Green Trap

Ben Bova

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Voyagers II

Voyagers II

Ben Bova

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Empire Builders

Empire Builders

Ben Bova

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