Wetware: A Novel - Tapa dura

In a chilling, near-future world in which fully formed humans can be created in laboratories, Briggs, a bio-tech engineer with Galapagos Technologies who works with the Wetware system, uses creative license to experiment with the Wetware process of creating human bodies, an experiment that has a profound impact on human identity and survival. 15,000 first printing.

n unnamed city that is darkly familiar and vividly possible, Hal Briggs is a biotech engineer. His specialty: encoding biology into digital form. In other words, manufacturing life.

Already he’d created small animals that chirped cheerfully about a product, a beaver that sang a ditty about toothpaste. He’d designed extreme-sport survival games that transported players into fantasy dimensions.
And now, the job keeping him up at all hours of the night has become his obsession―developing a coding system to produce the human body. People. Gray-skinned and brutish, designed to do the dangerous and dull jobs no one else wants. At corporate giant Galapagos Wetware, business is booming. Buyers want creatures with more finesse. They want workers who are good with handguns and who have the ability to deceive. Workers who are cunning, who thrive on terror, who are indifferent to a plea for mercy. They want workers who look more human.

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