Synopses & Reviews
Winner of the 2014 Prometheus Award
Mankind gets an upgrade
In the near future, the experimental nano-drug Nexus can link humans together, mind to mind. There are some who want to improve it. There are some who want to eradicate it. And there are others who just want to exploit it.
When a young scientist is caught improving Nexus, he’s thrust over his head into a world of danger and international espionage — for there is far more at stake than anyone realizes.
From the halls of academe to the halls of power, from the headquarters of an elite US agency in Washington DC to a secret lab beneath a top university in Shanghai, from the underground parties of San Francisco to the illegal biotech markets of Bangkok, from an international neuroscience conference to a remote monastery in the mountains of Thailand – Nexus is a thrill ride through a future on the brink of explosion.
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"Good. Scary good." Wired
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"Provocative....A double-edged vision of the post-human." The Wall Street Journal
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"A lightning bolt of a novel, with a sense of awe missing from a lot of current fiction." Ars Technica
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"Naam turns in a stellar performance in his debut SF novel....What matters here is the remarkable scope and narrative power of the story." Booklist, Starred Review
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"A superbly plotted high-tension technothriller...full of delicious, thoughtful moral ambiguity...a hell of a read." Cory Doctorow
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"A rich cast of characters...the action scenes are crisp, the glimpses of future tech and culture are mesmerizing." Publishers Weekly
About the Author
Ramez Naam is a professional technologist, and was involved in the development of Microsoft Internet Explorer and Outlook. He holds a seat on the advisory board of the Institute for Accelerating Change, is a member of the World Future Society, a Senior Associate of the Foresight Institute, and a fellow of the Institute for Ethics and Emerging Technologies.
His non-fiction book More Than Human won the H.G. Wells Award.
His novels has been nominated for the Kitscie Award for Best Debut, the Prometheus Award, and the Arthur C. Clarke Award. He is a 2014 nominee for the John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer.