Ancestor

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This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents either are the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, events, or locales is entirely coincidental.

Copyright © 2010 by Scott Sigler www.scottsigler.com

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Sigler, Scott.

Ancestor / Scott Sigler.—1st ed.

p. cm.

1. Geneticists—Fiction. 2. Transplantation of organs, tissues, etc.—Fiction. 3. Xenografts—Fiction. 4. Transgenic organisms—Fiction. I. Title.

PS3619.I4725A83 2009

813′.6—dc22 2009038911

eISBN: 978-0-30758935-4

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