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Six months after the Nexus 5’s release, the world has shifted into a more perilous reality. In the United States, the Post‑Human Liberation Front—freedom fighters bent on dismantling the post‑human regime—use the Nexus to infect men and women, turning them into human time bombs aimed at the President and his circle. Their first attacks signal a new, bloody chapter in the ongoing conflict between human and post‑human factions.
First publish date: 2014
Genre: Science Fiction/Cyberpunk
Authors: Ramez Naam
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