The Rapture of the Nerds
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    Sep-2012 (Hardcover)
    Nov-2013 (Paperback)
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  • Main Genre:
    Science Fiction
  • Time Period:
    Futuristic
  • Pages:
    352
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Welcome to the fractured future, at the dusk of the twenty-first century.

Earth has a population of roughly a billion hominids. For the most part, they are happy with their lot, living in a preserve at the bottom of a gravity well. Those who are unhappy have emigrated, joining one or another of the swarming densethinker clades that fog the inner solar system with a dust of molecular machinery so thick that it obscures the sun.

The splintery metaconsciousness of the solar-system has largely sworn off its pre-post-human cousins dirtside, but its minds sometimes wander…and when that happens, it casually spams Earth's networks with plans for cataclysmically disruptive technologies that emulsify whole industries, cultures, and spiritual systems. A sane species would ignore these get-evolved-quick schemes, but there's always someone who'll take a bite from the forbidden apple.

So until the overminds bore of stirring Earth's anthill, there's Tech Jury Service: random humans, selected arbitrarily, charged with assessing dozens of new inventions and ruling on whether to let them loose. Young Huw, a technophobic, misanthropic Welshman, has been selected for the latest jury, a task he does his best to perform despite an itchy technovirus, the apathy of the proletariat, and a couple of truly awful moments on bathroom floors.
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    • Nov-2013
    • Tor
    • Trade Paperback
    • ISBN: 0765329115
    • ISBN13: 9780765329110
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    • May-2018
    • Tor
    • Trade Paperback
    • ISBN: 1250196442
    • ISBN13: 9781250196446
    • First Edition
    • Sep-2012
    • Tor
    • Hardcover
    • ISBN: 0765329107
    • ISBN13: 9780765329103
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    • Sep-2012
    • Tor
    • eBook
    • ISBN: 1429944919
    • ISBN13: 9781429944915
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    • Apr-2013
    • Titan (UK)
    • eBook
    • ISBN: 1781167451
    • ISBN13: 9781781167458
    •  
    • Apr-2015
    • Blackstone Audiobooks
    • Audio CD
    • ISBN: 1483079708
    • ISBN13: 9781483079707
    •  
    • Apr-2015
    • Blackstone Audiobooks
    • Audio CD
    • ISBN: 1483079686
    • ISBN13: 9781483079684
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    • Apr-2015
    • Blackstone Audiobooks
    • Playaway
    • ISBN: 1504606493
    • ISBN13: 9781504606493
    • Library Binding
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    • Apr-2015
    • Blackstone Audiobooks
    • MP3 CD
    • ISBN: 1483079694
    • ISBN13: 9781483079691



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