Upgrade: A Novel [S0026]

2023 PB in nice clean condition. New York Times Bestseller • "If Michael Crichton had written a superhero novel, it would look a lot like Upgrade."-The New York Times Book Review • "You don't so much sympathize with the main character as live inside his skin."-Diana Galbadon. • ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: Time, She Reads.

"You are the next step in human evolution." At first, Logan Ramsay isn't sure if anything's different. He just feels a little . . . sharper. Better able to concentrate. Better at multitasking. Reading a bit faster, memorizing better, needing less sleep. But before long, he can't deny it: Something's happening to his brain. To his body. He's starting to see the world, and those around him-even those he loves most-in whole new ways. The truth is, Logan's genome has been hacked. And there's a reason he's been targeted for this upgrade. A reason that goes back decades to the darkest part of his past, and a horrific family legacy. Worse still, what's happening to him is just the first step in a much larger plan, one that will inflict the same changes on humanity at large-at a terrifying cost. Because of his new abilities, Logan's the one person in the world capable of stopping what's been set in motion. But to have a chance at winning this war, he'll have to become something other than himself. Maybe even something other than human. And even as he's fighting, he can't help wondering: what if humanity's only hope for a future really does lie in engineering our own evolution? Intimate in scale yet epic in scope, Upgrade is an intricately plotted, lightning-fast tale that charts one man's thrilling transformation, even as it asks us to ponder the limits of our humanity-and our boundless potential.

From recent Amazon/GoodReads reviews: "When I think of a great science fiction story, I think of something bold and imaginative, capable of surprising me and challenging my preconceived notions, one that reaches to the root of what it means to be human, and takes us on a journey of where we've been and where we're going. And this story is all that and more."; "Meet some mad scientists from the future. Since they think they are right and you are disposable, as collateral damage of their experiments, maybe you won't meet them, or you will meet them in the most unfortunate of ways. There is no end to what they will do to achieve what they want, just try to stop them and you will die. Or course, you may die anyway. Even though I don't understand most of the science, this story is easy to understand on other levels. It's both a thinking person's story and an action thriller and hits too close to home with some of the subjects it broaches."; "Those who think the way to save humanity is by upgrading all humans are pitted against those who think you can't save humans by destroying our humanity. Logan is an easy character to root for as you watch him make difficult and personally devastating choices. There is a heavy dose of science, which readers will either find fascinating or will gloss over. Whichever you choose doesn't matter as this is as much a crime thriller as it is sci-fi, and is enjoyable either way. I can't say if the science is accurate, but it certainly made for a thrilling, suspenseful tale. The author takes familiar themes rooted in reality and gives them his own fresh twist. And the science and philosophical questions never overwhelm good storytelling."