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Available
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Series
Publication
Angry Robot (2015), 608 pages
Description
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 FictionHumanity 2.0 | Mind Matters | Hive | This Will Happen
User reviews
LibraryThing member ohernaes
Action-filled conclusion to Naam's Nexus trilogy (Nexus, Crux, Apex). Against a backdrop of geopolitics, drug policy, fear of the unknown, development policy, and human rights, transhumans, AI, and humans clash. Though the first book (Nexus) provided the basic "science fictional" elements, here we
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see how these play out on the political scene, with its many actors with different motivations. Recommended. Show Less
LibraryThing member teknognome
Picking up right where Crux ended, Apex provides a satisfying conclusion to the Nexus Trilogy. At times in the middle it gets bogged down by too many viewpoints, taking too long to switch back to a given plot thread. But the action picks up towards the end as the characters converge on the climax.
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The ending is fitting; the main plot threads are concluded, but there's unfinished details to not feel too tidy. And it has it's sad elements, like the previous two books. Show Less
LibraryThing member lavaturtle
A great conclusion to the trilogy, wrapping everything up in a way that's both surprising and satisfying.
Awards
Philip K. Dick Award (Nominee — 2015)
Prometheus Award (Nominee — Novel — 2016)
Language
Original language
English
Original publication date
2015
Physical description
608 p.; 8.46 inches
ISBN
0857664018 / 9780857664013