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Second Nature
A romantic thriller. The story of Gen, a young woman who escapes a bio-warfare research lab carrying in her body billions of tiny organisms engineered from parts of her own cells. These microscopic entities empower her with wonderful and terrifying abilities as they compel her to complete a journey to fulfill their own destiny. As Gen seeks to learn where her superhuman gifts are taking her, she discovers what it is to be a very human woman in love.
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First published January 1, 2011
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Mark Canter
14 books16 followersI was raised in Kentucky hill country in a metropolis of 400 tobacco and hog farmers, where I belonged to the only Jewish family in the universe.
In my dharma-bum youth, I hitchhiked and jumped trains across the Western States and Canada and went through jobs from pizza chef to surgical orderly, massage therapist to rock-show stagehand.
After getting a journalism degree, I wrote for a few Florida newspapers before becoming senior editor of Men’s Health magazine. My short stories have been published nationally and my debut novel, Ember From the Sun, was published in 10 foreign languages.
I hold a master’s degree in the Humanities (“With Highest Distinction”) and for seven years I taught World Religions at Florida State University, where I specialized in “subverting the dominant paradigm.”
In my dharma-bum youth, I hitchhiked and jumped trains across the Western States and Canada and went through jobs from pizza chef to surgical orderly, massage therapist to rock-show stagehand.
After getting a journalism degree, I wrote for a few Florida newspapers before becoming senior editor of Men’s Health magazine. My short stories have been published nationally and my debut novel, Ember From the Sun, was published in 10 foreign languages.
I hold a master’s degree in the Humanities (“With Highest Distinction”) and for seven years I taught World Religions at Florida State University, where I specialized in “subverting the dominant paradigm.”
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March 2, 2020
This book is mesmerizing. The story is simple and the writing is weaved so well that he is painting a picture as he goes. Apart from the knowledgeable writing, it is spiritual and philosophical without being too high-end or dry. It is real and raw. There were very few typos and slips here and there that I could not help but notice and the book kind of dragged at the end. It must have seen very difficult to find an ending for this book that is both good and positive. In the end, love wins and with it everything that is good. In that sense, the book is easy but in all the other senses, it is exciting and alive. I think I appreciated the book more and a bit differently than other people because I knew a lot of the places that the writer mentioned and where the setting took place and that put me inside the book. At the same time, it rendered more truth to a work of fiction (if that makes sense). This book is definitely worth the read and very enjoyable. Why is not it more popular?
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