Invasive Procedures - Softcover

Card, Orson Scott; Johnston, Aaron

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0765352826 ISBN 13: 9780765352828

Publisher: Tor Science Fiction, 2008

Synopsis

In a near future world in which genetic therapy holds both great promise and deadly dangers, Frank Hartman, a brilliant virologist working for the government's top-secret biohazard agency, is the only man capable of stopping George Galen, a pioneering geneticist who has come up with a way to "improve" humans by making them stronger, healthier, and compliant to his will. Reprint.

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About the Author

Orson Scott Card is the author of the novels Ender's Game, Ender's Shadow, and Speaker for the Dead. Ender's Game and Speaker for the Dead both won Hugo and Nebula Awards, making Card the only author to win these two top prizes in consecutive years. There are seven other novels to date in The Ender Universe series. Card has also written fantasy: The Tales of Alvin Maker is a series of fantasy novels set in frontier America; his most recent novel, The Lost Gate, is a contemporary magical fantasy. Card has written many other stand-alone sf and fantasy novels, as well as movie tie-ins and games, and publishes an internet-based science fiction and fantasy magazine, Orson Scott Card's Intergalactic Medicine Show. Card was born in Washington and grew up in California, Arizona, and Utah. He served a mission for the LDS Church in Brazil in the early 1970s. Besides his writing, Card directs plays and teaches writing and literature at Southern Virginia University. He lives in Greensboro, North Carolina, with his wife, Kristine Allen Card, and youngest daughter, Zina Margaret.

Edition details

• Publisher: Tor Science Fiction
• Publication date: 2008
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0765352826
• ISBN 13: 9780765352828
• Binding: Mass Market Paperback
• Number of pages: 400