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    Crux
    Crux
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    Audiobook18 hours

    Crux

    Written by Ramez Naam

    Narrated by Mikael Naramore

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    About this audiobook

    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.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBrilliance Audio
    Release dateAug 27, 2013
    ISBN9781480521490
    Crux
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    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.

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    • 2/5
      No depth in any if the characters. Just stretching Nexus.

      2 people found this helpful

    • 3/5
      Not an engaging as the first book, but the premise of Nexus still engages the reader. There was quite simply too much in the way of action sequences in this book that made it like a bad Clive Cussler book in many ways.

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    • 3/5
      Hamfisted writing, cardboard characters, awkward action sequences—although the suspense is more adroitly managed as the (overlong) story goes on, and the book does examine some of the issues involved in the development of digital intelligence and cybernetics. Meh. Not sorry I picked it up, but doubt I’ll read another novel by this author
    • 4/5
      Nexus 5, a drug that enables humans to enhance their brains and become networked with other users has been out there for six months now. As the numbers of users increases the USA sees this as its greatest threat, especially as the Post Human Liberation Front is taking over the minds of users ands sending them on assignation attempts to kill the president

      As people start to use the drug for good and bad, Kade, the architect of Nexus, starts to avenge those that have enslaved others through the back doors that he put into the code. Kade is on the run too. He is being hunted by the CIA, black ops and others who want to use that power for their own ends. In America, one man close to the president starts to see that what they are doing to stop the spread of Nexus is morally abhorrent, in particular the way that they purge the substance from adults and children. The plot builds to a thrilling ending

      I really enjoyed this sequel. It is a really fast paced sci-fi thriller, set 25 years into the future, with plausible technology and that little extra that takes it over the edge. If I had one gripe, I thought that the characters were a little two dimensional, as more effort had been put into the multi threaded plot, but that is a small thing really.
    • 5/5
      This is just as amazing as the book before it. The tech is super cool, sure, but the book also explores the societal implications of the Nexus technology in a whole bunch of directions -- this is science fiction at its best. There are a whole bunch of POV characters, and it's a bit tricky at first to follow all the plot threads, but they all have satisfying character arcs and it comes together nicely. I look forward to reading the next book in the series!