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Nexus
Nexus | Ramez Naam
Book 1 of the Nexus Trilogy - Continued in Book 2: Crux 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. Shortlisted for the Arthur C Clarke Award Shortlisted for the Prometheus Award Shortlisted for the Kitschies Award An NPR Best Book of 2013! "Good. Scary good." - Wired "Provocative... A double-edged vision of the post-human."- The Wall Street Journal "A lightning bolt of a novel, with a sense of awe missing from a lot of current fiction."- Ars Technica "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."- Booklist "A superbly plotted high-tension technothriller ... full of delicious, thoughtful moral ambiguity ... a hell of a read."- Cory Doctorow "A gripping piece of near future speculation... all the grit and pace of the Bourne films."- Alastair Reynolds, author of Revelation Space "A sharp, chilling look at our likely future."- Charles Stross, author of Singularity Sky and Halting State "The most brilliant hard SF thriller I've read in years. Reminds me of Michael Crichton at his best."- Brenda Cooper, author of The Creative Fire "A rich cast of characters...the action scenes are crisp, the glimpses of future tech and culture are mesmerizing."- Publishers Weekly "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."- John Barnes, author of Directive 51 "Michael Crichton-like."- SFX Magazine "An incredibly imaginative, action-packed intellectual romp!"- Dani Kollin, Prometheus Award-winning author of The Unincorporated Man "The only serious successor to Michael Crichton."- Scott Harrison, author of Archangel
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BrainyHeroine
Nexus | Ramez Naam
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Talking with the hubs @Chemisecure about some of the up coming books for next year's reading goals, several of which are his or ones we both own. Guess who became my reading partner for all of them? Haha Love ya honey!

tpixie 💖📚💖 7y
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dylanisreading
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Not sure how I feel about this book yet, but it seems to have, at least in part, inspired me to write a short story which I started yesterday. I haven't been doing much fiction writing lately, so it's kind of refreshing.

What are y'all reading during this long weekend (for those of us in the US)?

minkyb I'm glad this inspired you! A very lazy weekend here! 7y
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JessicaThunstromNelson
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"... To understand the future course of this war, one need only look at the history of the War on Drugs and the War on Terror. Like those two manufactured "wars," this one will be never-ending, freedom-destroying, counterproductive, and ultimately understood to have caused far more damage than the supposed threat it was aimed at ever could have."

Fiction tells us more truths about the real world than nonfiction ever can, doesn't it?

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JessicaThunstromNelson
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Re-reading the first two books of Ramez Naam's Nexus trilogy before I finally get to dive into the third. First up, NEXUS. #RamezNaam #Nexus #NexusTrilogy #scifi

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Santiago
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Mehso-so

The story was fun, but I was put off by the book's ethics. Time and again, the book stops and shoehorns arguments between the Good Guys and the Bad Guys. These are presented as serious, as intended to be evenhanded, but ALWAYS the Bad Guys are bumbling, dishonest, or both. I couldn't get over that.

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Sarahceliann
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This is what my lunch looks like. Enjoying this book so far.