Nexus

Nexus by Ramez Naam
My rating: 4 of 5 stars

Great science fiction read about the near future when a drug can link your mind with another's. Kade and his friends have learned how to have Nexus in their brains all the time, as well as program it. But their illegal experimentation gets discovered and Kade has to decide what to do...turn it over to the government to be kept from the population at large for their own protection, , hand it over to a genius to create a new generation of super humans, or release it to the general population for them to use for good or for ill. There is a lot of action...Kade and his genetically altered handler get beat up half a dozen times, and lots of people die gruesome deaths. This is interlaced with a lot of soul searching so that the whole book becomes a little redundant...beat up, soul search, beat up, soul search, beat up while soul searching...but the epilogue where Naam related how his book could be less fiction than you think, was the clincher for me. Makes the soul searching a bit more relevant.


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