Provides examples of bioengineering at work including homeostasis, biological and artificial control systems, diagnostic imaging, prostheses, biomaterials, environmental engineering, and more.
In the dawn of the twenty-second century the world is a wasteland and there is one new power, Satori, which gives out climate-resistant seed that feeds the hungry nation, but when one of the Satori designers goes rogue, ex-Army Ranger Sienna Doss is sent by the government to find her so the government can once again have control of the nation.
Wynne Cage, the product of a mad experiment by the world's richest and most famous designer drug artist, runs away from her father's influence and struggles to make a life for herself in a culture where technology allows the elite to choose their age, sex, and species at will.
When an international corporation develops a power facility at the bottom of the ocean, they employ a bioengineered crew to man it, but it soon becomes apparent that although the crew can withstand the underwater environment, it makes them crazy, and the crew is capable of causing a deadly disaster.