This moral gray-ness makes the book incredibly thought provoking. I love books that deal with moral gray areas, and this one does in big, impressive ways. Furthermore, it strips Nexus from having strict blacks and whites in aspects of morality. While readers will like some characters more than others, Naam’s use of these powerful and diverse perspectives makes the book stronger, and will cause readers to be more emotionally invested. The world is a huge, diverse place, and everyone has a story. The different perspectives regarding Nexus, and its impact on politics and social structures are probably the most interesting part of the book, and Naam works with these different backgrounds and perspectives perfectly.

The book follows the trail of a few specific characters, each coming at the mystery/plot from different, very justifiable angles. It’s political, deals with drugs, human evolution, the merging of humanity and technology, underground markets, and all of the societal pressures that all of that entails. Nexus deals with all the things that I really enjoy. I ran across it randomly at the library and kind of kicked myself for not reading it sooner. Nexus is a book that I really should have been aware of when it came out, but I wasn’t. Books that take place in the near future and deal with our various social issues and evolutions seem to be the thing that gets me going.

I can’t seem to get enough of the stuff, and when it’s done well, I can’t stop thinking about it.

This year I learned that social SciFi is one of my favorite (sub?) genres.

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.įrom 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. And there are others who just want to exploit it. In the near future, the experimental nano-drug Nexus can link human together, mind to mind.

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