Ergebnis für "BIOS" in Krimis & Thriller

Im Jahr 2045 ist das Zeitalter der Technik Geschichte; die biologische Moderne ist angebrochen. Algen und Pilze bauen Autogehäuse, die Boomstädte Asiens werden nachts von Leuchtbäumen erhellt. Auch vor dem menschlichen Körper macht die Bio-Revolution nicht halt. Jeder will hochgezüchtete Designer-Babies, ob legal oder nicht. Die Zeche zahlen andere.

When Ned Kelly's mother, Ellen, arrived in Melbourne in 1841 aged nine, British convict ships were still dumping their unhappy cargo in what was then known as the colony of New South Wales. By the time she died aged 91 in 1923, having outlived seven of her 12 children, motor cars plied the highway near her bush home north of Melbourne, and Australia was a modern sovereign nation.

True stories of sudden death in the classic collection by a master of American journalism “Reporters love murders,” Calvin Trillin writes in the introduction to Killings. “In a pinch, what the lawyers call ‘wrongful death’ will do, particularly if it’s sudden.” Killings, first...