Books like Nexus by Ramez Naam

1818 novel by Mary Shelley about young scientist Victor Frankenstein who creates a sapient creature in an unorthodox experiment.

H. G. Wells’ classic tales the narrator builds a machine, journeys 800,000 years ahead to a seemingly utopian future that hides a savage underground society.

A brilliant scientist invents a serum that grants invisibility, but the experiment turns him into a paranoid, murderous figure.

Red Mars chronicles the early days of humanity’s colonization and political upheaval on Mars, blending environmental engineering, terraforming and nation‑building in a hard‑science vision.

In a secluded monastic society of mathematicians, physicists, and philosophers, a young avout named Fraa Erasmas must confront the outside world during a rare rite, becoming the key to preventing a looming global disaster.

When a legendary game designer dies, a dormant computer daemon awakens, threatening to dismantle society. An unlikely team must unravel its secrets before the world is lost to an unseen, autonomous threat.

A tale of the future, where artificial intelligence and molecular nanotechnology are rewriting the human condition.

Flynne, a young woman living in a drug‑reliant city, helps her veteran brother Burton test a new virtual reality game. When the beta test turns into a murder investigation, she discovers a deadly conspiracy that threatens her life.

In Jeff VanderMeer’s Authority, a secret agency known as the Southern Reach watches over the mysterious Area X, a lush domain cut off from civilization. After a failed twelfth expedition, new head John Rodriguez uncovers unsettling truths through interrogations, notes, and harrowing video footage.

In "Acceptance", Jeff VanderMeer concludes the Southern Reach trilogy as a desperate expedition seeks answers in the expanding, enigmatic wilderness of Area X, while a hidden team unravels the forces that birthed it.

In a near‑future world where political order collapses, neural‑linked protests ignite global conflict and a clandestine scientist plots to control all electronic systems. Amidth the chaos, post‑human children awaken their powers.

Two science fiction stories about time travel and invisibility from the author of 'The War of the Worlds'.

When a rival nation begins sending agents back in time with advanced weapons, the US must develop its own time‑transfer technology to counter the looming threat.

In a futuristic solar‑system society, The Quantum Thief follows a cunning thief amid advanced encryption, shared‑memory communication, and a civilization born from a virtual gaming guild.

A CIA operative travels to a remote Arizona mountain with a team of scientists to sabotage the world's largest supercollider, uncovering a secret that could either doom or save humanity.

In a future where the Nexus 5 biologically rewrites people, the Post‑Human Liberation Front rigs former soldiers into human time bombs, sparking a high‑stakes war between humanity and the post‑human.

A gifted mathematician works for a shadowy financial firm that sells insurance against catastrophic events. Obsessed with doomsday models, he faces a real disaster when his worst‑case forecast comes true in Manhattan.

"As Chaos explained the science of disorder, Nexus reveals the new science of connection and the odd logic of six degrees of separation.". "How can geometry explain the puzzles of human behavior? In this incisive insightful work Mark Buchanan presents the fundamental principles of the emerging field of "small-worlds" theory - the idea that a hidden pattern is the key to how networks interact and exchange information, whether that network is the information highway or the firing of neurons in the brain. Mathematicians, physicists, computer scientists, and social scientists are working to decipher this complex organizational system, for it may yield a blueprint of dynamic interactions within our physical as well as social worlds. Highlighting groundbreaking research behind network theory. Buchanan documents mounting support for the small-worlds idea and demonstrates its multiple applications to diverse problems - whether explaining the volatile global economy or the Human Genome Project, the spread of infectious disease or ecological damage. Nexus is an exciting introduction to the hidden geometry that weaves our lives so inextricably together."--BOOK JACKET.

In "Influx", suppressed technology forces particle physicist Jon Grady to develop a gravity‑reflecting device that attracts a mysterious future organization.