Domesticating Dragons - (The Build-A-Dragon Sequence) by Dan Koboldt (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>"Noah Parker, a newly minted Ph.D., is thrilled to land a dream job at Reptilian Corp., the hottest tech company in the American Southwest. He's eager to put his genetic engineering expertise to use designing new lines of Reptilian's feature product: living, breathing dragons. Although highly specialized dragons have been used for industrial purposes for years, Reptilian is desperate to crack the general retail market. By creating a dragon that can be the perfect family pet, Reptilian hopes to put a dragon into every home. While Noah's research may help Reptilian create truly domesticated dragons, Noah has a secret goal. With his access to the company's equipment and resources, Noah plans to slip changes into the dragons' genetic code, bending the company's products to another purpose entirely."--<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><b>BUILD-A-BEAR WORKSHOP MEETS JURASSIC PARK WHEN A NEWLY GRADUATED GENETIC ENGINEER GOES TO WORK FOR A COMPANY THAT AIMS TO PRODUCE CUSTOM-MADE DRAGONS</b> <p/>Noah Parker, a newly minted Ph.D., is thrilled to land a dream job at Reptilian Corp., the hottest tech company in the American Southwest. He's eager to put his genetic engineering expertise to use designing new lines of Reptilian's feature product: living, breathing dragons. <p/> Although highly specialized dragons have been used for industrial purposes for years, Reptilian is desperate to crack the general retail market. By creating a dragon that can be the perfect family pet, Reptilian hopes to put a dragon into every home. <p/> While Noah's research may help Reptilian create truly domesticated dragons, Noah has a secret goal. With his access to the company's equipment and resources, Noah plans to slip changes into the dragons' genetic code, bending the company's products to another purpose entirely . . . <p/> <b>About <i>Domesticating Dragons</i>: </b> <p/> "Koboldt delivers and funny and immersive look at the world of genetic engineering. . . . With characteristic verve, Koboldt contrasts the playful adventure plot with eerie dystopian setting and a seering examination of corporate greed and ambition. Fans of inventive speculative fiction are sure to be pleased." -- <i>Publishers Weekly</i> <p/> <b>About Dan Koboldt: </b><br> "<i>. . . </i>very readable and highly enjoyable. . . . Characters that are more than the sum of their parts, a world that has so much to offer, and a story that races along apace . . . " --SFF World on <i>The World Awakening</i><p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br><b>Dan Koboldt</b> is the author of the Gateways to Alissia trilogy (Harper Voyager), the editor of Putting the Science in Fiction (<i>Writers Digest</i>, 2018), and the creator of the sci-fi adventure serial The Triangle (<i>Serial Box</i>, 2019). As a genetics researcher, he has coauthored more than 80 publications in <i>Nature</i>, <i>Science, The New England Journal of Medicine</i>, and other scientific journals. Dan is also an avid deer hunter and outdoorsman. He lives with his wife and children in Ohio, where the deer take their revenge by eating the flowers in his backyard. <p/> Dan is at dankoboldt.com and on Twitter at @DanKoboldt. On his blog he runs the popular "Science in Sci-fi / Fact in Fantasy" series, where experts in various fields contribute articles about how to write more realistic fiction. Articles from this series were collected into a book that came out in 2018 from <i>Writers Digest</i>. Kobolt's "Putting the Science in Science Fiction" blog can be found here: http: //dankoboldt.com/science-in-scifi/. He has also written nonfiction articles for <i>Clarkesworld, Apex Magazine</i>, and Baen.com.
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