
Apex
Ramez Naam(Author)
Angry Robot (Publisher)
Will be published approx. on 7. March 2015
Book
Paperback/Softback
664 pages
978-0-85766-401-3 (ISBN)
Description
They call them the Apex - humanity's replacement. They're smarter, faster, better. And infinitely more dangerous. Global unrest spreads as mass protests advance throughout the US and China, Nexus-upgraded riot police battle against upgraded protestors, and a once-dead scientist plans to take over the planet's electronic systems. The world has never experienced turmoil of this type, on this scale. Humanity is dying. Long live the Apex.
Reviews / Votes
Praise for the Neuxs series:"Good. Scary good."
- Wired
"One of the Best Books of the Year"
- NPR
"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 rich cast of characters...the action scenes are crisp, the glimpses of future tech and culture are mesmerizing."
- Publishers Weekly
"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
"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
"Naam displays a Michael Crichton-like ability to explain cutting-edge research via the medium of an airport techno-thriller."
- 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
More details
Series
Edition
New edition
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Watkins Media Limited
Edition type
New edition
Dimensions
Height: 216 mm
Width: 135 mm
ISBN-13
978-0-85766-401-3 (9780857664013)
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Person
RAMEZ NAAM is a professional technologist, and was involved in the development of Microsoft Internet Explorer and Outlook.He was the CEO of Apex Nanotechnologies, a company involved in developing nanotechnology research software before returning to Microsoft.He holds a seat on the advisory board of the Institute for Accelerating Change, is a member of the World Future Society, a Senior Associate of the Foresight Institute, and a fellow of the Institute for Ethics and Emerging Technologies.

