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Apex

Nexus, Book 3

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Apex

By: Ramez Naam
Narrated by: Stephanie Cannon
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The explosive conclusion to Nexus and Crux.

Global unrest spreads through the US, China, and beyond. Secrets and lies set off shockwaves of anger, rippling from mind to mind. Riot police battle neutrally linked protestors. Armies are mobilized. Political orders fall. Nexus-driven revolution is in here.

Against this backdrop a new breed of posthuman children are growing into their powers. And a once-dead scientist, driven mad by her torture, is closing in on her plans to seize the planet's electronic systems and reforge everything in her image. A new Apex species is here. The world will never be the same.

Ramez Naam is a professional technologist and was involved in the development of Microsoft Internet Explorer and Outlook. He holds a seat on the advisory board of the Institute for Accelerating Change and is a member of the World Future Society, a senior associate of the Foresight Institute, and a fellow of the Institute for Ethics and Emerging Technologies.

Please note that following customer feed-back, sections of this product have been re-recorded. New audio has been made available as of 23 October 2015.

©2015 Ramez Naam (P)2015 Audible, Ltd. Adventure Fantasy Hard Science Fiction Science Fiction Technothrillers Thriller & Suspense Fiction Thriller

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Such an exciting book and trilogy. it felt like o could also get connected to the mind of people in the book and see through their eyes!

amazing

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What did you like best about Apex? What did you like least?

The conclusion to the saga was quite enjoyable.

What didn’t you like about Stephanie Canon’s performance?

the narrator Stephanie Canon did not suit the text at all. Her voice would have suited a childrens book and her character acting was terrible.

Was Apex worth the listening time?

Sure

Any additional comments?

Changing the narrator from two males in two previous books to a female in the finale was a terrible choise.

Decent ending for a good trilogy

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This tied everything up in a very satisfying way..All in all one of the most enjoyable series I've listened to in ages.Fast paced,intelligent,and thought provoking.Well worth a listen..only one complaint and that was the narration,she does a good job but as the first two books had a male narrator its very jarring.a very poor decision,whoever makes these calls obviously has no common sense at all.

Great finale

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Truly great works of fiction don’t prescribe ‘what’ to think. Instead they provoke the mind on ‘how’ to think. They give more questions than answers, and yet leave a lasting and satisfying impression.

By that measure, the Nexus trilogy is a modern masterpiece. Even more so given the series was completed and published in 2015.

Stephanie Cannon’s narration is wonderful; drawing the listener in, and painting a rich world in the mind... no silvery liquid yet required..!

The gripping action, technical complexity and political nuance balance each other well. Some of the darkest and most bright aspects of humanity are eloquently conveyed. The characters’ diversity-yet near universal enduring of suffering so that others may know peace-leaves a lasting impression.

If such Nexus technology becomes a reality, it will almost definitely develop in a completely different way to the stories in Nexus, Crux and Apex. Yet, as with much Sci-Fi before it, and hopefully much more to come after , Ramez Naam has built an accessible, enjoyable, and thought provoking work on a world-changing subject.

Highly recommended, especially for those studying computer science, neuroscience and with a general interest in the neck and neck race between our humanity and our technology, who are after a good and hard work of science fiction.

Mind-expanding

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interesting premise and executed well. Good character development and made me think about how our future will unfold.

get concepr

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the women reading this put on the worst male voice ever. especially for the Chinese, she sounds like she's talking through a snorkel! Got bored of the story in the end but not whether that was her voice or the story that bored. Either way, she ruined it for me.

Not as good

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Third book is by far more intense than the previous ones. A great aspiring vision on how the future of brain computer interfaces may look like and problems coming along with it

An aspiring vision of the future

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Story continues to be great but the change of narrator made it difficult to listen to all 3 books in a row. The efforts at male voices and accents in this talking book are so bad it distracted from the plot. Really wish it was possible to have narrator consistency in a series like this.

Different narrator

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Would you recommend this audiobook to a friend? If so, why?

Would definitely recommend the book not so sure on this audio version the performance is not good. Too many of the characterisations either sound alike or sound childish!

What did you like best about this story?

Brilliant end to Ramez Naam's trilogy

Brilliant story not so great performance

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The story has not warranted being split across three books. This third volume fills up the pages by eking out what little plot there is by filling the spaces between with pointless padding. The narrator does a fair job but I can see no reason for the change from the first two volumes.
In the end I was just waiting for this audiobook to be over...

Should have been two books rather than three

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