Books about: Escape from Laboratory

[Capn]

Hi all :)

I was wondering if you knew of any books where the protagonist(s) are escapees from a Lab of sorts. This current thread prompted the thought:
https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...

Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH and the mice in The Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy: A Trilogy in Five Parts at a stretch (hardly central players) spring immediately to my mind.

I suppose they could be human subjects as well, or non-sentient animal subjects.

Thanks! Wondering if there's enough to churn out a proper Listopia list for this subject.

[Aerulan]

If romance are ok,

Fury and
Burning Up Flint are the first books in two series by Laurann Dohner that fit (first is genetic modification, the other cyborgs)

Tempting the Beast by Lora Leigh also genetic modification.

[Capn]

Sure thing! Thanks, Aerulan! :)

[Pamela]

Depending on your definition of "lab", one could argue that Running Out of Time by Margaret Peterson Haddix qualifies. Running Out of Time

[Len]

Iron Cage by Andre Norton. Humans escape from an alien laboratory.

[Rainbowheart]

Origin

[Capn]

Pamela wrote: "Depending on your definition of "lab", one could argue that Running Out of Time by Margaret Peterson Haddix qualifies. Running Out of Time"

I'm not too rigid. :) Thanks, Pamela!

[Capn]

Thanks, Len and Rainbowheart! Perfect.

[Pamela]

The Maximum Ride series by James Patterson, starting with The Angel Experiment The Angel Experiment

[Capn]

Thanks again, Pamela! :D

[Amanda]

My suggestion would be the Project Paper Dolls trilogy by Stacey Kade - it is in my absolute 'LOVE THEM' core collection of books.

[Capn]

Starting with The Rules, right? :) Thanks very much - I don't know these!

[CraftyChara]

Chronicles Of The Kencyrath
Frankenstein: The 1818 Text
The Plague Dogs
Ender's Shadow
This Alien Shore
Breaking Strain
Second Sunrise

[CraftyChara]

Replica

[Amanda]

Capn wrote: "Starting with The Rules, right? :) Thanks very much - I don't know these!"

Absolutely! I cannot rave about them enough :)
Book 1 - The Rules
Book 2 - The Hunt
Book 3 - The Trials

[Amanda]

And if you are looking for an Escape series (this time from Prison) but has Laboratory twists in it, I would highly recommend the 'Escape from Furnace' series by Alexander Gordon Smith. This series is my favourite books OF ALL TIME!! They have a Resident Evil vibe to them :)
Book 1 - Lockdown
Book 2 - Solitary
Book 3 - Death Sentence
Book 4 - Fugitives
Book 5 - Execution

[Capn]

Thank you, Amanda. :) Sounds exciting!

[Capn]

Chara's Craftsations wrote: "Chronicles Of The Kencyrath
Frankenstein: The 1818 Text
The Plague Dogs
Ender's Shadow
This Alien Shore
[book:Breaking Strain|1490..."

Ah right! How could I have forgotten Frankenstein! I loved that one! :)

Thanks very much, Chara!

[Amy (Other Amy)]

Final Girls by Mira Grant is an escape from an experiment/lab once it goes wrong.

[Capn]

Thanks, Amy!

[bookel]

Smart Dog by Vivian Vande Velde.
Fifth grader Amy finds her life growing complicated when she meets and tries to hide an intelligent, talking dog who has escaped from a university lab.

Space Trap by Monica Hughes.
Valerie is imprisoned, a victim of the Space Trap. Spirited millions of parsecs away from her home galaxy to an outlaw planet, she must escape or spend the rest of her life in a primate zoo - or become the subject of terrible experiments in the aliens' laboratory.

A Cage of Butterflies by Brian Caswell.
May also qualify, see: https://www.librarything.com/work/261...

[Capn]

Thanks, Bookel!

[CraftyChara]

The Prisoner of Shiverstone May be a bit of a stretch. Mad scientist prison island the MC goes there to rescue her grandfather.

[Capn]

That's alright - I'll take it! :) Thanks, Chara. :)

[SamSpayedPI]

I was going to say Fluke by James Herbert but I'm pretty sure that the "escape from the lab" part was made up for the movie and not in the original book.

But I think Firestarter by Stephen King would work.

[Capn]

Thanks, Sam! :)

[bookel]

House of Stairs
If you consider House of Stairs by William Sleator, and similar books, laboratory experiments they are trying to escape, they would also fit.
Others: The Cage by Roy Brown.
Some on this list might apply. https://www.librarything.com/list/640...

Also any psychic kids escaping from institutions where they were being tested?

[bookel]

Searching worldcat.org for laboratory escape fiction.

Family : a novel by John Donovan. Family
When the tame and wild apes being used for a scientific experiment learn its ultimate goal, several escape and try to live as a family.

Watchers by Dean R. Kontz. Watchers

The frog and the beanpole by Charles Kaufman. The Frog and the Beanpole

There are others. Worldcat is a useful way to find them. I restricted to juvenile with a year range though. Worldcat isn't as good as it used to be at restricting to juvenile though. Koontz seems more adult fiction from the plot description.

[SamSpayedPI]

Capn wrote: "Thanks, Sam! :)"

You're welcome. Also The Institute might work as well.

[Anh]

True Talents

[Capn]

Thanks! :)

[Sacajawea]

Definitely Plague Dogs by Richard Adams, as a couple others said already.

[Capn]

Sacajawea wrote: "Definitely Plague Dogs by Richard Adams, as a couple others said already."

Thanks! :)