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A review by standingwave
Nexus by Ramez Naam
5.0
Nexus is the best kind of speculative sci-fi exploring the impact of nano drugs both on the intensely personal level of the individual and on humankind and culture at large. The story isn't shy about having such a broad scope and the writing and characters consistently deliver on it.
Both the action and the science are tightly crafted and come at you in a fast paced style befitting the augmentations powering the soldiers, scientists, and bureaucrats we follow in Naam's near future world. The setting is refreshingly global and international, as are the characters, which lends even greater weight to the myriad social implications of runaway technology that Naam explores. The topics of human augmentation, bioethics, privacy, hacking, and more are clearly ones that Naam knows well and he navigates them expertly in weaving a truly gripping tale.
Both the action and the science are tightly crafted and come at you in a fast paced style befitting the augmentations powering the soldiers, scientists, and bureaucrats we follow in Naam's near future world. The setting is refreshingly global and international, as are the characters, which lends even greater weight to the myriad social implications of runaway technology that Naam explores. The topics of human augmentation, bioethics, privacy, hacking, and more are clearly ones that Naam knows well and he navigates them expertly in weaving a truly gripping tale.