Crux, Ramez Naam
Crux, Ramez Naam
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Crux

Author: Ramez Naam

Series: Nexus #2

Narrator: Mikael Naramore

Unabridged: 17 hr 51 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 08/27/2013


Synopsis

Finalist for the 2014 Prometheus Award.Six months have passed since the release of Nexus 5. The world is a different, more dangerous place.In the United States, the terrorists—or freedom fighters—of the Post-Human Liberation Front use Nexus to turn men and women into human time bombs aimed at the President and his allies. In Washington DC, a government scientist, secretly addicted to Nexus, uncovers more than he wants to know about the forces behind the assassinations, and finds himself in a maze with no way out.In Thailand, Samantha Cataranes has found peace and contentment with a group of children born with Nexus in their brains. But when forces threaten to tear her new family apart, Sam will stop at absolutely nothing to protect the ones she holds dear.In Vietnam, Kade and Feng are on the run from bounty hunters seeking the price on Kade's head, from the CIA, and from forces that want to use the back door Kade has built into Nexus 5. Kade knows he must stop the terrorists misusing Nexus before they ignite a global war between human and posthuman. But to do so, he'll need to stay alive and ahead of his pursuers.And in Shanghai, a posthuman child named Ling Shu will go to dangerous and explosive lengths to free her uploaded mother from the grip of Chinese authorities.The first blows in the war between human and posthuman have been struck. The world will never be the same.

About Ramez Naam

Ramez Naam is the H.G. Wells Award-Winning author of More Than Human: Embracing the Promise of Biological Enhancement. He lives in Seattle, WA.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Miles

I am slightly ashamed of how much I enjoy Ramez Naam's techno-thrillers. His writing is undoubtedly the clunkiest of any scifi writer I have come across, which is saying a lot given that the genre is beset with good thinkers who often have trouble generating artful prose. As with Nexus, the first in......more

ENGLISH An extrapolation of the possible development of biotechnologies and medicine. Naam describes both the social and individual consequences of new key technology. Economics and organized crime will be the fasted early adopters. Fewer philosophical considerations than in the first part, but more ac......more

Goodreads review by TS

Crux was a satisfying, roller-coaster ride of a sequel that was intense. Even though there were a bit less action scenes and the plot development a little slower, it was no less engaging than its predecessor. From the conclusion of the previous book, Nexus went viral. Nexus's ability to sati......more

Goodreads review by emily

Review courtesy of Plenty of Pages. I seem to be one of the few people (according to Goodreads, at least) who didn't give this book an overwhelming 5 stars. It wasn't that I didn't enjoy the book-- I did. But the niggling dissatisfaction I felt with Nexus was still present in Crux. There was just so......more