<p> Good. Scary Good. <br>-Wired <br> Provocative... A double-edged vision of the post-human. <br>-The Wall Street Journal <br> A lightning bolt of a novel, with a sense of awe missing from a lot of current fiction. -Ars Technica <br> Starred Review. Naam turns in a stellar performance in his debut SF novel... What matters here is the remarkable scope and narrative power of the story. <br>-Booklist <br> A rich cast of characters...the action scenes are crisp, the glimpses of future tech and culture are mesmerizing. <br>- Publishers Weekly <br> Naam displays a Michael Crichton-like ability to explain cutting-edge research via the medium of an airport techno-thriller. <br>-SFX Magazine <br> A gripping piece of near future speculation... all the grit and pace of the Bourne films. -Alastair Reynolds, author of Revelation Space<br> <br> The most brilliant hard SF thriller I've read in years. Reminds me of Michael Crichton at his best. - Brenda Cooper, author of The Creative Fire <br> Any old writer can take you on a roller coaster ride, but it takes a wizard like Ramez Naam to take you on the same ride while he builds the roller coaster a few feet in front of your plummeting car... you'll want to read it before everyone's talking about it. <br>- John Barnes, author of the Timeline Wars and Daybreak series. <br> An incredibly imaginative, action-packed intellectual romp! Ramez Naam has turned the notion of human liberty and freedom on its head by forcing the question: Technology permitting, should we be free to radically alter our physiological and mental states? <br>- Dani Kollin, Prometheus award winning author of The Unincorporated Man <br> The only serious successor to Michael Crichton working in the future history genre today. <br>- Scott Harrison, author of Archangel <br> If you are posthuman or transhuman this is an absolute must-read for you; and even mere mortals will love it. <br>- Philip Palmer, authorb