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, 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.
His non-fiction book More Than Human won the H.G. Wells Award.
His novels has been nominated for the Kitscie Award for Best Debut,
the Prometheus Award, and the Arthur C. Clarke Award. He is a 2014
nominee for the John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer.
Praise for the Neuxs series:
"Good. Scary good."
- Wired
"One of the Best Books of the Year"
- NPR
"Provocative... A double-edged vision of the post-human."
- The Wall Street Journal
"A lightning bolt of a novel, with a sense of awe missing from a
lot of current fiction."
- Ars Technica
"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."
- Booklist
"A superbly plotted high-tension technothriller ... full of
delicious, thoughtful moral ambiguity ... a hell of a read."
- Cory Doctorow
"A rich cast of characters...the action scenes are crisp, the
glimpses of future tech and culture are mesmerizing."
- Publishers Weekly
"A gripping piece of near future speculation... all the grit and
pace of the Bourne films."
- Alastair Reynolds, author of Revelation Space
"A sharp, chilling look at our likely future."
- Charles Stross, author of Singularity Sky and Halting State
"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
"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 you."
- John Barnes, author of Directive 51
"Naam displays a Michael Crichton-like ability to explain
cutting-edge research via the medium of an airport
techno-thriller."
- SFX Magazine
"An incredibly imaginative, action-packed intellectual romp!"
- Dani Kollin, Prometheus Award-winning author of The
Unincorporated Man
"The only serious successor to Michael Crichton."
- Scott Harrison, author of Archangel
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