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.
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the book was fine but i felt like there were parts where i was like has anything been happening?? also the payoff for the ending wasn’t great and it was resolved way too quickly
0Damn. This reminded me of one of Ted Chiang’s short stories with two super intelligent individuals battling it out
“I suspect that, if we all had perfect memory, we would all grieve the older versions of who we used to be the way we grieve departed friends.”
0Logan Ramsay, a perfectly ordinary agent, now works for the GPA- the Gene Protection Agency. After a raid where an aerosol explosion occurred, Logan is feeling different. At first he felt sick, but months later, he is feeling better than ever. He can remember the smallest details of his life, read multiple books in a day, perform better physically, and experience his senses at a new level. When his employers find out he has been upgraded, they take him into custody. When he finds out who did this to him, he is terrified. After breaking out of custody, he finds out that the person who did this has plans to upgrade all of humanity. But Logan is worried this will affect the population in an extremely detrimental way. He makes it his mission to stop this upgrade from going any further.
I am not usually a big fan of sci fi, but this book was fantastic! Blake Crouch writes incredibly developed characters and breathtaking stories. This book was full of science and out of this world things, but it’s also a love story. I think it’s really beautiful that he can do both simultaneously. While there is a lot of gene science explained in the book, I didn’t feel like it was too descriptive or that the complex information was necessary to understand the storyline. It was a very clever idea and kind of terrifying that science could possibly advance to that level. I look forward to reading Blake Crouch’s other books!
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