by Emily Suvada
To Toni Fatherley—the best English teacher I’ve ever met, thank you for always challenging me to do my best, to aim higher, to work harder. I needed it. Thank you Sonya, for introducing me to Roswell, Mélanie for being such an inspiration, and Seti for sharing so many wonderful adventures with me. Thank you Jun Bei, for loaning me your name, and my Macq friends: Murray, Monica, Megan, Serena, Gen, Vidya, Julia, Ben, Anna, Monique, Suhail, and Melanie, for your encouragement to follow my crazy dreams. Thank you David, Jess, Theresa, Kristin, Alison, and all the Reedies who fill my days with math and code and wonder.
THE POEM IN THE PIGEONS
Cat discovers a sonnet encrypted in the DNA of passenger pigeons. Can you decipher it? Check out emilysuvada.com/extras/the-pigeon-poem for a hint!
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Photo © 2017 by Britt Q. Hoover
EMILY SUVADA was born and raised in Australia, where she went on to earn a degree in mathematics. She previously worked as a data scientist and still spends hours writing algorithms to perform tasks that would only take her minutes to complete on her own. When not writing, she can be found hiking, cycling, and conducting chemistry experiments in her kitchen. She currently lives in Portland, Oregon, with her husband.
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This book is a work of fiction. Any references to historical events, real people, or real places are used fictitiously. Other names, characters, places, and events are products of the author’s imagination, and any resemblance to actual events or places or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Names: Suvada, Emily, author.
Title: This mortal coil / by Emily Suvada.
Description: First Simon Pulse hardcover edition. | New York : Simon Pulse, 2017. | Summary: “In a world where people are implanted with technology to recode their DNA, gene-hacking genius Cat must decrypt her late father’s message concealing a vaccine to a horrifying plague”—Provided by publisher.
Identifiers: LCCN 2016056177 (print) | LCCN 2017027758 (eBook) |
ISBN 9781481496353 (eBook) | ISBN 9781481496339 (hc)
Subjects: | CYAC: Hackers—Fiction. | Genetic engineering—Fiction. | Plague—Fiction. |
Fathers and daughters—Fiction. | Science fiction.
Classification: LCC PZ7.1.S886 (eBook) | LCC PZ7.1.S886 Thi 2017 (print) | DDC [Fic]—dc23
LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2016056177