Nexus
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,...
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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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Format: kindle
ASIN: B009U9S6B2
Publish date: 2012-12-18
Publisher: Angry Robot
Pages no: 464
Edition language: English
Series: NEXUS (#1)
Nexus is the first book in a science fiction trilogy. The term “Nexus” refers to an illegal drug of sorts that contains nanotechnology. After being ingested, Nexus creates a network that allows people with the drug in their system to share thoughts and emotions with each other. College students have...
Very fun, and big thoughts, too — who should get access to enhancement, what makes us human, could we engineer our evolution into a new species. Glad to see more neuroscientists in action -- and some of them are good guys! I usually like more character development and subtler dialogue, but was willi...
Action, Thriller, Science Fiction, Cyberpunk, Dystopia, Hackers, Spies, ... what more could you hope for!? Highly recommended, and thoroughly enjoyed!(Warning grandma, it's pretty vulgar!)
I love books concerning enhancement technologies, so when I read the synopsis of this novel, which talked about the nano-drug Nexus that linked human minds, I was really intrigued. I picked up the audiobook of this and immediately liked the narrator (which is half the battle with an audiobook), and ...
Nexus by Ramez Naam Transhuman – noun – A human being whose capabilities have been enhanced such that they now exceed normal human maxima in one or more important dimensions. An incremental step in human evolution. Posthuman – noun – A being which has been so radically transformed by technology tha...