Upgrade
Logan Ramsay is about to get the brain he always dreamed of. But will he be transformed into something more than human… or something less? When the SWAT team gives the all-clear and Logan Ramsay steps into the basement, he has no idea that everything's about to change. Then there's the hiss of aerosol. The explosion. The shrapnel that punctures his hazmat gear. Logan wakes up to find himself in a hospital bed, attended by doctors in their own hazmat suits, his wife and daughter looking on from behind the glass. The doctors say he's been infected by a virus - one designed not to make him sick, but to modify his very genetic structure. In a world where the next-generation gene-editing tool known as Scythe is widely available - and has already reaped disastrous consequences - the possibilities are too many and terrifying to count. Except that after the fever, the pain, the fear... the virus is gone. And according to his government bosses, Logan's got a clean bill of health. But the truth is that with each day that passes, Logan's getting smarter. Seeing things more clearly. He's realizing that he's been upgraded in ways that go beyond even Scythe's capabilities - and that he's been given these abilities for a reason. Because a holy grail of genetic engineering - one that could change our very definitions of humanity - has just been unearthed. And now it's up to him to stop it from falling into the wrong hands. Logan’s becoming something more. Something better.
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What Hacker News says
- I did Recursion, Upgrade and Dark Matter by Blake Crouch and they were all really fun easy reads. Highly recommended.
- Ten Steps to Nanette, Hannah Gadsby - Autobiography of an Australian comedian I like. (If you like audiobooks, she reads it herself which is a treat.)
True Biz, Sara Nović - A year in the life of a boarding school for the deaf.
Upgrade, Blake Crouch
Blindsight: The (Mostly) Hidden Ways Marketing Reshapes Our Brains, Matt Johnson & Prince Ghuman - Interesting angle of examining neurology.
Treasure & Dirt, and The Tilt, Chris Hammer - Good Australian rural crime fiction.
Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality, Eliezer Yudkowsky - Alternate fan fic depiction of Harry Potter as a hyper-rationalist. My review linked below.
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/60034663-ten-steps-to-na...
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/58395049-true-biz
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/59838811-upgrade
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/52225003-blindsight
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/58520598-treasure-dirt
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/61413297-the-tilt
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/33951086-harry-potter-an...
(My review) https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/5124124732
- Can’t believe I’m the first/only one to post these:
- Upgrade by Blake Crouch
- Biography of the Pixel by Alvy Ray Smith
Like Project Hail Mary, Upgrade is the kind of book I really wanted back when I was a michael crichton fan. His last book, Recursion was really my favorite. I love books that secretly teach you a thing or two and celebrate science and engineering.
Biography of the Pixel was a fascinating history of computer graphics and fundamental graphics concepts.
- Last weekend I read Upgrade by Blake Crouch from cover to cover. It was amazing and I can recommend it to anyone on here.
- I'm on book 4 of the Bobiverse series and am really enjoying it, easy reads started the series last week! Read Blake Crouch's latest Upgrade over a weekend and would reccomend as well.
- Lots of scifi.
Annihilation, Authority, Acceptance, and Absolution of Jeff VanderMeer's Southern Reach series. https://www.goodreads.com/series/112239-southern-reach
Reread books 1-4 of Dennis E Taylor's Bobiverse series to read #5 https://www.goodreads.com/series/192752-bobiverse
John Scalzi's Interdependency Series https://www.goodreads.com/series/202297-the-interdependency
Basically all of the Culture Series by Iain M Banks https://www.goodreads.com/series/49118-culture
Of Peter F Hamilton:
- The Salvation Sequence series https://www.goodreads.com/series/242882-salvation-sequence
- The Void Series, a sequel-trilogy to the Commonwealth Universe series https://www.goodreads.com/series/43520-void
Of Alastair Reynolds:
- Pushing Ice https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/48991704-pushing-ice
- Eversion https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/60097716-eversion
Of Adrian Tchaikovsky:
- Shroud https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/230237860-shroud
- Elder Race https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/56815367-elder-race
- Alien Clay https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/199851460-alien-clay
- Going through The Final Architecture now https://www.goodreads.com/series/305076-the-final-architectu...
Also Upgrade, by Blake Crouch https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/59439117-upgrade
Also First, by Randy Brown https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/196399619-first
