Apex (Ramez Naam novel)
Apex is a cyberpunk novel and 3rd book in the Nexus trilogy by American author Ramez Naam, published May 5th, 2015.[1]
Plot Summary[edit]
Previous[edit]
A new nano cyber drug called Nexus is released in the year 2040. It connects human minds and allows the brain to be programmed. The protagonist Kaden Lane works on the illegal drug and is suddenly entangled in government intrigue. The nanomedicine is the breakthrough to posthumanism which governments and corporations fear and try to stop. Su-Yong Shu, a brilliant Chinese neuroscientist with an uploaded mind, try to start a posthuman revolution. Soon Kaden Lane, who is summoned to spy on her, become her ally. The US American government hunt both; at the end Su-Yong Shu's body dies, her mind is isolated on a Chinese server park and Kaden Lane has to flee with his friends. He makes the nano drugs available for humanity. Soon a global unrest spread: terrorists using the nano drug for assassination, the governments trying to assassinate Nexus user. Meanwhile, Su-Yong Shu is nearly killed (shutting the server park down) by the Chinese government and her husband; at the end, she is rescued by her daughter.[2][3]
Apex[edit]
US and China in particular and the Earth, in general, are aroused by disturbances. Unrests and riots spread with Nexus-upgraded protesters and police and Su-Yong Shu, the former dead neuroscientist who stole her daughter's body by downloading herself into it, tries to take over all electronic systems and with them the entire world, recreating it to fit her imagination. The posthumans are called Apex, the climax, and reinstatement of humankind.[4]
See Also[edit]
The Nexus Trilogy[edit]
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