The science is cool, the ideas are big, and the prose is smooth. I recall a long ago calvin and hobbes strip where calvin had the hiccups and hobbs tried to scare him by telling him about climate change.

Logan ramsay is a field agent for the gpa, the american gene protection agency. After an unfortunate accident, logan finds himself the victim of an upgrade to his entire body. Is logan the next step in human evolution? The book is written with all of ...  Read More

This is the type of book that will stay with you long after you finish reading it, working over the moral conundrums. Listened to this on audio and drank it down in a couple of days.

Blake crouch is such a story teller. Crouch does a great job of making the futuristic seem possible and relevant.

Hunger, homelessness, climate change and the power and privilege of the military industrial complex. Upgrade asks the rather uncomfortable question of whether emotion for our close ones is enough or are we running towards extinction by not being compa...  Read More

This isn't just a book resolved by a lazy deus ex machina, the main character *is* the deus. The second sentence is actually a fragment. Creatures is the subject, followed by several dependent clauses but without a predicate. Enviro-*’s who want to af...  Read More

Enough is enough. Give me a break. Please just stop. Die, we all die, america is dead and we are all dead. No thanks, thank you.

But far too much of the story has those same enhanced characters spending a lot of their time fighting, shooting and killing others.