Action/Adventure Aficionados discussion

Our December Group Read Theme is Genetic Engineering/Manipulation. Let's select a book touches on the theme of genetic tampering/experimentation.

Other group read guidelines still apply, including it should be action/adventure focused.

Here are some other things to consider when you make your nomination:


1. One nomination per group member. The books must be nominated with a Goodreads link by clicking on 'add book/author'. If a book does not have a Goodreads link, it will not be added to the poll.
2. Books need to be readily available, ie, in print (able to buy new or in ebook format).
3. Books should have some degree of action/adventure content.
4. Past group reads are not eligible to be nominated again. The past group discussions remain open for members to comment. You can view the list of past reads here:

https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...

5. Books must be either standalone or first in a series (or they may be later in a series if constructed to be read as a standalone).
6. Authors are asked not to nominate their own books or solicit nominations from members.

The poll will go up on November 25, 2022.

I've done a bit of DNA extraction and analysis, so know the technology. I think Michael Crichton's book, Jurassic Park, really was one of the first to use a DNA premise from modern biology in a story - and such a brilliant tale! Plausible premise, making a complex technology easy to understand, and who doesn't like a good dinosaur move from the book! Also, I love the creativity of Marvel Comics, using the DNA mutation idea to make a limitless supply of different superheroes, The Incredible Hulk, etc.,Jurassic Park

I'm going to nominate Upgrade by Blake Crouch.

The mind-blowing new thriller from the New York Times bestselling author of Dark Matter and Recursion

“You are the next step in human evolution.”

At first, Logan Ramsay isn’t sure if anything’s different. He just feels a little . . . sharper. Better able to concentrate. Better at multitasking. Reading a bit faster, memorizing better, needing less sleep.

But before long, he can’t deny it: Something’s happening to his brain. To his body. He’s starting to see the world, and those around him—even those he loves most—in whole new ways.

The truth is, Logan’s genome has been hacked. And there’s a reason he’s been targeted for this upgrade. A reason that goes back decades to the darkest part of his past, and a horrific family legacy.

Worse still, what’s happening to him is just the first step in a much larger plan, one that will inflict the same changes on humanity at large—at a terrifying cost.

Because of his new abilities, Logan’s the one person in the world capable of stopping what’s been set in motion. But to have a chance at winning this war, he’ll have to become something other than himself. Maybe even something other than human.

And even as he’s fighting, he can’t help wondering: what if humanity’s only hope for a future really does lie in engineering our own evolution?

Intimate in scale yet epic in scope, Upgrade is an intricately plotted, lightning-fast tale that charts one man’s thrilling transformation, even as it asks us to ponder the limits of our humanity—and our boundless potential.

Hey members!

The poll is up for the December group read. Drop by and vote by 11:59 am PST on November 30th.

https://www.goodreads.com/poll/show/2...