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Nexus Series

This series delves into a near-future where experimental nanotechnology offers the ability to link human minds directly. It explores the profound ethical questions and dangers that arise when such a powerful tool falls into different hands, from those seeking to improve it to those aiming to exploit or eradicate it. Readers can expect a thrilling journey filled with international espionage, political intrigue, and a race against time to control humanity's next evolutionary step. This is a thought-provoking exploration of what it means to be human when consciousness itself can be shared and manipulated.

Nexus
Apex
Crux

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  1. 1

    Nexus

    • 527 pages
    • 19 hours of reading
    4.1(15647)Add rating

    Winner of the 2014 Prometheus Award Mankind gets an upgrade In the near future, the experimental nano-drug Nexus can link humans together, mind to mind. There are some who want to improve it. There are some who want to eradicate it. And there are others who just want to exploit it. When a young scientist is caught improving Nexus, he’s thrust over his head into a world of danger and international espionage – for there is far more at stake than anyone realizes. From the halls of academe to the halls of power, from the headquarters of an elite US agency in Washington DC to a secret lab beneath a top university in Shanghai, from the underground parties of San Francisco to the illegal biotech markets of Bangkok, from an international neuroscience conference to a remote monastery in the mountains of Thailand – Nexus is a thrill ride through a future on the brink of explosion. File Under: Science Fiction [Humanity 2.0 | Mind Matters | Hive | This Will Happen]

    Nexus
  2. 2

    Crux

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    Six months have passed since the release of Nexus 5. The world is a different, more dangerous place. In the USA, the 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. The first blows in the war between human and posthuman have been struck.

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  3. 3

    Apex

    • 864 pages
    • 31 hours of reading
    4.1(4917)Add rating

    The Explosive Conclusion to Nexus and Crux Winner of the Philip K. Dick Award Global unrest spreads through the US, China, and beyond. Secrets and lies set off shockwaves of anger, rippling from mind to mind. Riot police battle neurally-linked protestors. Armies are mobilized. Political orders fall. Nexus-driven revolution is in here. Against this backdrop, a new breed of post-human children are growing into their powers. And a once-dead scientist, driven mad by her torture, is closing in on her plans to seize planet's electronic systems, and re-forge everything in her image. A new Apex species is here. The world will never be the same. File Under: Science Fiction [ Humanity 2.0 | Mind Matters | Hive | This Will Happen ]

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