Daniel H. Wilson is the author of the New York Times bestseller Robopocalypse and the nonfiction titles How to Survive a Robot Uprising, Where’s My Jetpack?, How to Build a Robot Army, The Mad Scientist Hall of Fame, and Bro-Jitsu: The Martial Art of Sibling Smackdown. He lives in Portland, Oregon.
Praise for Daniel H. Wilson's Amped
“A fast-paced narrative, not too far away at all from everyday
experience, that treats an unsettling question: How long will
tolerance last once you can buy a better brain?”
—The Wall Street Journal
“With Amped, Wilson has taken another step to claiming the late
Michael Crichton's crown as the public's sci-fi thriller writer of
choice. . . . Wilson hits all the notes in the right order, and the
book’s pace is relentless. And perhaps best of all, he leavens his
cautionary message with good-sized dollops of fistfights and
gunfire. Amped might have a commendable message about tolerance and
civil rights, but Wilson doesn’t let the message get in the way of
our fun.”
—Richmond Times-Dispatch
“A wild ride. . . . Wilson taps into something primal with Amped. .
. . Wilson is a roboticist by trade, and he combines his background
in science and engineering with a knack for fast-paced narrative. .
. . [Amped taps into] some of the deep questions about medical
ethics, the social effects of technology, and the way that class
and politics make technological questions much harder to
resolve”
—BoingBoing.net
“A fast-paced, futuristic thriller that’ll make you think,
especially about the dangers of us-versus-them demagoguery.”
—Fredericksburg Free Lance Star
“Absorbing . . . Wilson is no stranger to exploring the
intersection of technology and humankind. In Amped, certain
individuals have technology embedded under their skin. These humans
are smarter and faster than norm—and because most of the federally
funded upgrades went to the needy, the formerly dumb and afflicted
‘amps’ are scaring the ‘pure’ humans. The not-so-distant future is
a hotbed of class war and civil unrest.”
—Portland Mercury
“A fast-paced narrative, not too far away at all from everyday
experience, that treats an unsettling question: How long will
tolerance last once you can buy a better brain? Mr. Wilson
recognizes that, in the modern world, the battlegrounds would be
legal and political, not just physical.”
—The Wall Street Journal
“Fast-paced . . . fascinating . . . for hardcore sci-fi readers,
Amped offers plenty of juicy details to savor. As he showed in his
bestselling thriller Robopocalypse, Daniel H. Wilson can
write. The Carnegie Mellon-trained roboticist has a voice and style
very much like Stephen King. But unlike King, Wilson also has the
chops to base the weird beings in his stories on hard science.”
—Wired’s Geek Dad
“Entertaining . . . propulsive . . . Amped [is] a gripping story of
a community of Amps trying to make it in the middle of a prejudiced
Oklahoma, where regular humans strike back at anyone with a
telltale port on their temple. A piece of trenchant political
science fiction about how we mistreat those who are different.”
—The Onion A.V. Club
“Amped beckons back to the Civil Rights era, when the definition
and rights of American citizens were called into question.”
—BookPage
“Wilson keeps the action and fear-based prejudice ever-present
without sacrificing depth. The story’s heart is the moral quandary
Owen faces once he knows his implant only responds to his deepest
thoughts, keeping the reader wondering how far he will go and how
much he is willing to sacrifice.”
—Publishers Weekly
“Provocative . . . A thoughtful, well-written novel which deals
with the often tense interplay between machines and humans. Wilson,
whose prose is always a step above the norm, is at his strongest
creating amp augmented action sequences and in conjuring situations
which explore the boundaries between humankind and its
technological creations.”
—Kirkus Reviews
“Thrilling . . . First he gave us helpful advice for the robot
uprising, then he wrote the robot war novel Robopocalypse. Now
Daniel H. Wilson is turning his attention to the plight of cyborgs
and posthumans with his dystopian new novel Amped.”
—I09.com
“Wilson’s newest novel, Amped, shares with its predecessor
[Robopocalypse] a solid basis in current scientific technology—in
this case, neural implants that treat a variety of conditions.
Amped imagines a not-too-distant world, when these ‘superabled’
people—made stronger, smarter, faster by the devices in their
heads—are perceived as a threat to unaltered or ‘pure’ humans.”
—Tulsa World
“This is a terrific book on any number of levels, doing what sf has
always been able to do best: showing us a possible future so that
we can not only attempt to avoid it, but we can also look at its
echoes as they already exist in our own time.” —The Magazine of
Fantasy & Science Fiction
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