nuvan posted:

I asked about some books last year, and got answers for most, but I still am looking for two of them.

Here's the list I had:

1. group of people are on a ship orbiting mars. segregated by gender, they are given some sort of serum or drug to allow for very fast adaptation to their environment, which is slowing being changed to that of mars. they are being prepped to be the first martians. I think that at the end of the story they rebel against their creators

Keep Out! posted:

Daptine is the secret of it. Adaptine, they called it first; then it got shortened to daptine. It let us adapt

They explained it all to us when we were ten years old; I guess they thought we were too young to understand before then, although we knew a lot of it already. They told us just after we landed on Mars.

"You're home, children," the Head Teacher told us after we had gone into the glassite dome they'd built for us there. And he told us there'd be a special lecture for us that evening, an important one that we must all attend.

Cantaloupe posted:

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