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  • "Upgrade: A Novel" by Blake Crouch

    From Lynn McGuire@21:1/5 to All on Thu Sep 14 17:23:28 2023
    "Upgrade: A Novel" by Blake Crouch
    https://www.amazon.com/Upgrade-Novel-Blake-Crouch/dp/0593157524/

    A standalone science fiction novel, no sequel or prequel. I read the
    well printed and well bound trade paperback published by Ballantine
    Books in 2023 that I bought new from Amazon.

    Logan Ramsay is a field agent for the GPA, the American Gene Protection
    Agency. Son of the infamous Myriam Ramsay whose gene manipulations of
    the rice crops in China killed 200 million people through starvation,
    gene manipulations are now outlawed across the entire planet. Logan is
    a geneticist and worked with his mother when she invented the easy to
    use and build Scythe, the gene editing toolset. His mother committed
    suicide several years back after the effects of The Great Starvation.

    On a mission to shut down a dark gene lab, Logan is attacked with an ice
    bomb. After the bomb goes off, he runs a fever for the next few days
    and notices that he is changing. Logan has been upgraded.

    Would you be willing to be upgraded if the failure rate of 15% would
    turn you into a gibbering idiot ?

    The author has a website at:
    https://blakecrouch.com/

    Steven Spielberg has bought the movie rights to this book and the author
    is writing the screenplay.
    https://www.inverse.com/entertainment/blake-crouch-upgrade-interview

    My rating: 5 out of 5 stars
    Amazon rating: 4.2 out of 5 stars (10,526 reviews)

    Lynn

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  • From Dimensional Traveler@21:1/5 to Lynn McGuire on Thu Sep 14 16:21:06 2023
    On 9/14/2023 3:23 PM, Lynn McGuire wrote:
    "Upgrade: A Novel" by Blake Crouch
       https://www.amazon.com/Upgrade-Novel-Blake-Crouch/dp/0593157524/

    A standalone science fiction novel, no sequel or prequel.  I read the
    well printed and well bound trade paperback published by Ballantine
    Books in 2023 that I bought new from Amazon.

    Logan Ramsay is a field agent for the GPA, the American Gene Protection Agency.  Son of the infamous Myriam Ramsay whose gene manipulations of
    the rice crops in China killed 200 million people through starvation,
    gene manipulations are now outlawed across the entire planet.  Logan is
    a geneticist and worked with his mother when she invented the easy to
    use and build Scythe, the gene editing toolset.  His mother committed suicide several years back after the effects of The Great Starvation.

    On a mission to shut down a dark gene lab, Logan is attacked with an ice bomb.  After the bomb goes off, he runs a fever for the next few days
    and notices that he is changing.  Logan has been upgraded.

    Would you be willing to be upgraded if the failure rate of 15% would
    turn you into a gibbering idiot ?

    One could argue that is a lower failure rate than natural child birth....

    --
    I've done good in this world. Now I'm tired and just want to be a cranky
    dirty old man.

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