

Amped
Author: Douglas E. Richards
Narrator: Peter Berkrot
Unabridged: 11 hr 52 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Recorded Books
Published: 11/15/2013
Categories: Fiction, Science Fiction
Author: Douglas E. Richards
Narrator: Peter Berkrot
Unabridged: 11 hr 52 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Recorded Books
Published: 11/15/2013
Categories: Fiction, Science Fiction
Douglas E. Richards has written numerous feature articles for the award-winning magazine National Geographic KIDS as well as for American Fencing magazine. He is the author of the Prometheus Project series, the first title of which-Trapped-is listed as recommended literature by the California Department of Education and has been used as a read-aloud in classrooms across the country. Douglas has a master's degree in molecular biology from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and an M.B.A. from the University of Chicago. He lives in San Diego, California, with his wife and children.
My wife and I became huge fans of Richards when we fell in love with 'Wired', having read it last year. We waited eagerly for the sequel to come out, and now, after having just finished reading it, I can say that it was a great read! 'Amped', like 'Wired', belongs to the genre of Sci-Fi, but to me i......more
When I started reading this sequel, I was curious where the author would take the story. After all, what do you do with these "enhanced IQs"? Kira Miller, the brilliant geneticist who created the gelcap that could allow your IQ to climb to unprecedented levels, is now happily partnered with David De......more
AMPED picks up just a short time after WIRED ends. If you thought everything was settled at the end of WIRED and the future looked rosy, think again! Now the stakes for humanity and the future are even higher, and Kira, Desh, Matt, and the others must figure out how to fight their enemies while simu......more
I LOVED Wired, the first in the series - awesome book. But this one was way too far fetched for me. I liked the philosophy of the first book and this carries it on but it just wasn't in the realms of plausibility as a techno-thriller and yet also wasn't sci-fi.......more
The Solution to the Annihilation of Mankind? Part two of Douglas Richards Wired series just keeps on blowing your mind away. I tried so hard to recap book one and came up wordless. I find myself even more so with Amped. Much like the mythical intelligence pill that the protagonist, Kira Miller, invent......more