Dragon’s Island and “terraforming” in Seetee Ship (both
1951).
Bioengineered Constructs, Plants, and Animals
Crichton, Michael. Jurassic Park (Ballantine, 1990).
Cloned dinosaurs cause havoc.
Easton, Thomas A. Sparrowhawk (Wildside Press,
2000). A future world filled with bio-constructs and biovehicles.
Martin, George R.R. Tuf Voyaging (Meisha Merlin,
2003). The adventures of a freelance interstellar ecological
engineer.
Shelley, Mary. Frankenstein, or the Modern Prometheus
(Pocket, 2004). Originally published in 1818, this is the
classic story of a scientist’s creation of artificial life and its
tragic consequences, and is often considered the first science
fiction novel.
Cryonics
Bear, Greg. Heads (Tor, 1990). On future Luna, the
arrival of a consignment of cryogenically-preserved heads
leads to intrigue.
Niven, Larry. A World Out of Time. (Del Rey, 1986).
Cryogenics patient wakes up in a radically-changed
dystopian future.