Ramez Naam

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.

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Nexus

Gavin

Deeply unsubtle bio-libertarian thriller. Tom Clancy plus software plus anti-statism plus globalisation. Lots of ideas; Naam knows enough about code and brain-machine interfaces to make gestures towards the big info-nano-tech turning point in our near-to-mid-future, and acknowledges the horrors it is likely to enable. ("The Chandler Act (aka the Emerging Technological Threats Act of 2032) is the opening salvo in a new War on Science. To understand the future course of this war, one need only look at the history of the War on Drugs and the War on Terror. Like those two manufactured "wars", this one will be never-ending, freedom-destroying, counterproductive, and ultimately understood to have caused far more damage than the supposed threat it was aimed at ever could have.") He has a nice message: 
	Broad dissemination and individual choice turn most technologies into a plus. If only the elites have access, it’s a dystopia..
 

But the cheap prose and action (and the abuse of Nietzsche) are too wearing, particularly coming right after Stross, a master thereof.

Bibi

Premise is well thought out. The writing itself and content are sometimes simplistic and vaguely childish.

Amit Gawande

A good premise lost for a better story writer, a better author. Sigh.

Sunky

Akshay Agrawal

Stefan Ladstätter-Thaa

Kade Lane is a young scientist of the future who has found a way to make Nexus, a experimental drug that allows humans to connect minds, to be introduced with apps that can expand human capabilities, as police, government forces, and criminals all vie with each other to gain control of the drug.

Nick Nikolov

Martin Heuer

Dominik

Cheah Chu Yeow

Daniel Luca

Zwischen Freiheit und Sicherheit Die nahe Zukunft: Die Nano-Droge Nexus ermöglicht es den Menschen, die Grenzen der eigenen Wahrnehmung zu überschreiten und mit dem Bewusstsein anderer in Verbindung zu treten – ein gewaltiger Schritt in der Evolution des Menschen. Als jedoch eine Gruppe skrupelloser Wissenschaftler Nexus für ihre eigenen Zwecke missbraucht, zwingt die US-Regierung den jungen Nano-Techniker Kade Lane, sich in die Organisation einzuschleusen, um ihrem Treiben ein Ende zu bereiten. Lane gerät in einen Strudel aus Machtgier, Korruption und Mord ...

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