Domesticating Dragons: Volume 1

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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

Noah Parker, a newly minted PhD,is thrilled to land a dream job at Reptilian Corporation, the hottest tech company in the American Southwest. Hes eager to put his genetic engineering expertise to use designing new lines of Reptilians 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 Noahs research may help Reptilian create truly domesticated dragons, Noah has a secret goal. With his access to the companys equipment and resources, Noah plans to slip changes into the dragons genetic code, bending the companys products to another purpose entirely . . .

AboutDomesticating Dragons:

Library JournalBest Science Fiction and Fantasy Books of 2021

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 searing examination of corporate greed and ambition. Fans of inventive speculative fiction are sure to be pleased.Publishers Weekly

About Dan Koboldt:
. . .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 onThe World Awakening

Author Bio

Dan Koboldtis the author of the Gateways to Alissia trilogy (Harper Voyager), the editor of Putting the Science in Fiction (Writers Digest, 2018), and the creator of the sci-fi adventure serial The Triangle (Serial Box, 2019). As a genetics researcher, he has coauthored more than 80 publications inNature,Science, The New England Journal of Medicine, 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.

Dan can be foundat 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 fromWriters Digest. Koboldts Putting the Science in Science Fiction blog can be found here:dankoboldt.com/science-in-scifi. He has also written nonfiction articles forClarkesworld, Apex Magazine, and Baen.com.