Apex - (Nexus ARC) by Ramez Naam (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>"An Angry Robot paperback original"--Title page verso.<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><b>The Explosive Conclusion to <i>Nexus </i>and <i>Crux <p/></i>Winner of the Philip K. Dick Award</b> <p/>Global unrest spreads through the US, China, and beyond. Secrets and lies set off shockwaves of anger, rippling from mind to mind. Riot police battle neurally-linked protestors. Armies are mobilized. Political orders fall. Nexus-driven revolution is in here. <p/>Against this backdrop, a new breed of post-human children are growing into their powers. And a once-dead scientist, driven mad by her torture, is closing in on her plans to seize planet's electronic systems, and re-forge everything in her image. <p/>A new Apex species is here. The world will never be the same. <p/><b><i>File Under: </i></b> <b>Science Fiction</b> [ Humanity 2.0 Mind Matters Hive This Will Happen ]<p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br><b>Praise for the <i>Neuxs </i>series: </b> <p/>Good. Scary good.<br>- <b>Wired<br></b><br>One of the Best Books of the Year<br>- <b>NPR<br></b><br>Provocative... A double-edged vision of the post-human.<br>- <b>The Wall Street Journal<br></b><br>A lightning bolt of a novel, with a sense of awe missing from a lot of current fiction.<br>- <b>Ars Technica<br></b><br>Starred Review. Naam turns in a stellar performance in his debut SF novel... What matters here is the remarkable scope and narrative power of the story.<br>- <b>Booklist<br></b><br>A superbly plotted high-tension technothriller ... full of delicious, thoughtful moral ambiguity ... a hell of a read.<br>- <b>Cory Doctorow<br></b><br>A rich cast of characters...the action scenes are crisp, the glimpses of future tech and culture are mesmerizing.<br>- <b>Publishers Weekly<br></b><br>A gripping piece of near future speculation... all the grit and pace of the Bourne films.<br>- <b>Alastair Reynolds</b>, author of <i>Revelation Space<br></i><br>A sharp, chilling look at our likely future.<br>- <b>Charles Stross</b>, author of <i>Singularity Sky</i> and <i>Halting State<br></i><br>The most brilliant hard SF thriller I've read in years. Reminds me of Michael Crichton at his best.<br>- <b>Brenda Cooper</b>, author of <i>The Creative Fire<br></i><br>Any old writer can take you on a roller coaster ride, but it takes a wizard like Ramez Naam to take you on the same ride while he builds the roller coaster a few feet in front of you.<br>- <b>John Barnes</b>, author of <i>Directive 51<br></i><br>Naam displays a Michael Crichton-like ability to explain cutting-edge research via the medium of an airport techno-thriller.<br>- <b>SFX Magazine<br></b><br>An incredibly imaginative, action-packed intellectual romp!<br>-<b> Dani Kollin</b>, Prometheus Award-winning author of <i>The Unincorporated Man</i> <p/>The only serious successor to Michael Crichton.<br>- <b>Scott Harrison</b>, author of <i>Archangel</i><br><p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br>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. <p/>His non-fiction book More Than Human won the H.G. Wells Award. <p/>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.
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