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  • Paperback: 448 pages
  • Publisher: Angry Robot (3 Jan. 2013)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0857662929
  • ISBN-13: 978-0857662927
  • Product Dimensions: 13.3 x 3.2 x 19.8 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (78 customer reviews)
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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 your plummeting car... you'll want to read it before everyone's talking about it. - John Barnes, author of the Timeline Wars and Daybreak series. --John Barnes, author of the Timeline Wars and Daybreak series.

NEXUS is a gripping piece of near future speculation, riffing on the latest developments in cognition enhancement. With all the grit and pace of the Bourne films, this is a clever and confident debut by a writer expertly placed to speculate about where we re heading. Unlike a lot of SF, this novel dares to look the future square in the eye. --Alastair Reynolds, bestselling author of Revelation Space and Blue Remembered Earth

About the Author

Ramez Naam is the H.G. Wells Award-Winning author of More Than Human: Embracing the Promise of Biological Enhancement.

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5.0 out of 5 starsSee the future as imagined by someone who's creating it.
By Barrie Suddery on 1 Jan. 2013
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A stunning "what if" view of future human development and evolution and a morality tale about modern "security" concerns regarding the web and internet free speech issues.
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4.0 out of 5 starsThe world according to Microsoft?
By 70s Guy on 23 Mar. 2013
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It looks like being trans-human is back in fashion (or it might just be Amazon's recommendations engine), but this is the second SF novel on the trot that I have read that covers this -- the other being Accelerando by Charles Stross. Both good, but both ultimately rather depressing. Maybe I'm just antisocial, but living forever in software, and in somebody else's head to boot (or reboot), just isn't my idea of a heavenly afterlife. And anyway, who's in charge of the servers, and the network, and restore from backup? Nobody ever tests restore from backup!Then there's the added frisson that Naam works for Microsoft and is at least partly responsible for the development of Internet Explorer. Hmmm, no mention of the "blue screen of death" here, for some reason...

The story itself is pretty good though, kind of Bourne for the Facebook generation, and while I can't (willingly) subscribe to the basic premise, and the plotlines are a bit stretched in places, it's undoubtedly a ripping yarn and one that I finished happily in only a few days. Let's just hope that this particular future is as far off as personal rocket planes for happy commuting have turned out to be.
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5.0 out of 5 starsCredible technothriller that doesn't let up.
By E M Aldred on 4 Mar. 2015
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Nexus is about an experimental drug capable of linking human minds together. It has mixed reactions with the human population. Developers like Kaden Lane a PhD candidate in neuroscience wants to see where he can take it, while others, like the government, want to get rid of it entirely. When Kaden is caught illegally developing Nexus he suddenly becomes plunged into the life and death world of international espionage and playing for very high stakes.
Nexus provides some very credible extrapolations off what is currently possible with technology and intelligently weaves these technical details in with a very human story of betrayal, trust and the value of friendship.
Setting the story in 2040 allows enough historical time for the technology to be feasibly developed. Nexus 5 is a type of programmable nanotechnology drug into which software can be loaded and developed. As a plot device it is used to great effect, not only in very dynamic and credible action sequences where the protagonists use it in life-threatening situations, but also to demonstrate both the benefits and terrible cost it might have on the human population and that it needs to be used wisely. But the book also injects humour while making a point. A test of some seduction software that goes hilariously wrong and the hero trying to get to grips with ‘Bruce Lee’ a programme that enables the user to become an expert fighter clearly demonstrates the difficulties in the development and successful interface of new technology with human biology. The sheer inventiveness and determination of the human mind is also evident in some of the more technical sections of the story.Read more ›
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1.0 out of 5 starsMutant bio-engineered secret agents... Need I say more?
By J. on 4 Jun. 2017
Format: Mass Market Paperback
I started reading this book after it was mentioned on the Wait But Why blog about Neuralink.
It seems to have been written by a 15 year old kid who watched one too many summer blockbusters. It's cliché after cliché. I would describe it as a bad science fiction movie in book form. Poorly written (it tries to be cinematic, so to speak), shallow characters, simple plot.
Caveat: it would take something stronger than Nexus 5 for me to find the courage to finish the book so maybe after the first half it stops being very bad and becomes very good.
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5.0 out of 5 starsThe start of all the post-human weirdness.
By Willy Eckerslike TOP 1000 REVIEWER on 24 Nov. 2014
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We now know where the post-human weirdness so beloved of modern science fiction will begin; inevitably, a bunch of bright kids messing about customising a mind expanding nano-tech drug. The current street version (Nexus 3) gives a temporary neural network interface with other users in the vicinity; great for parties, no doubt. The authorities, just for a change, see it as dangerous and a threat to the status quo so a special unit has been created to prevent the proliferation of Nexus and its derivatives. Not surprisingly, and suitably hypocritically, the authorities are themselves enhancing the drug to turn their operatives into super-agents and for military applications. Nice.

So the scene is now set. Young Kade and his chums have developed Nexus 5 which persists in the brain and allows permanent connection to other users in the locale while the aforementioned government heavies (the ERD) try to track them down and generally bust them. What ensues is a splendidly taut sci-fi conspiracy thriller and while not multi-threaded, the narrative is by no means linear with enough well developed characters to maintain plausibility while the pace generally bowls along at a cracking rate. There is a bit of a lull in the action mid-way during the conference in Bangkok but it is necessary for the introduction of a raft of new characters & motivations and to get them into position for the blistering finale.

Needless to say, I really enjoyed this book. Proper speculative near-future science fiction, well written by an author who has plainly put a great deal of thought into the background science but without feeling the need to show off or bore the reader with huge info-dumps. Excellent stuff and the sequel, Crux, is now on my wish list although I’ve got to wait until April 2015.Read more ›
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One of those books you can't put down; you want to know more, need to know more! I'm sure a movie inspired by this book will follow.

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What a ride - ironically, it's all in the mind! Recommend to all. Ramez Naam is clearly a next gen Asimov...

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