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Thinwalker
Eight hundred years from now and a hundred light years from Earth, at the periphery of a vast interstellar civilization, humanity itself is changing—each individual injected at birth with 'nanites,' marvels of nanoscale technology that function in ways that are indispensable for almost every important transaction in life. This nexus between biology and technology is at the point of transforming the core of what it means to be human, with the next generation of nanites to impinge on the very thoughts of Homo sapiens.
Not everyone acquiesces to this vision of what humanity is becoming. The Free Range—at the far fringes of the colonized Spiral Arm and settled by individualists, free-thinkers, humanists—opposes this biomechanization of the spirit, to the death. Their struggle to preserve their own identity, their faiths, to prevent the hivemind from overcoming their culture as well, has given rise to a terrific resistance which, unfortunately for the free rangers, is ending badly.
One young free ranger, Enguerrand Duprey, has been abducted and compelled to act as bounty hunter for one of the most powerful men among hundreds of billions. The impossible realm into which Enguerrand is sent and the unfathomable quarry he is forced to seek sets off a series of events that strains the very fabric of the cosmos itself, daring to put effect before cause and setting into motion the most frightening event imaginable, one that will change not one universe, but two, and exposing something age-changing about the very nature of nature itself.
Captivating! An intricately designed and superbly entertaining tale of intrigue, politics and well-written science. If a few tears don’t well up in your eyes as you read it, check your pulse.
—Dr. Paul C. Burton, Publisher, Burton Digital Books
A page-turner that kept me on the edge of my seat from the first page to the last. What an ending!
—David Pierre, Author, Double Standard
Not everyone acquiesces to this vision of what humanity is becoming. The Free Range—at the far fringes of the colonized Spiral Arm and settled by individualists, free-thinkers, humanists—opposes this biomechanization of the spirit, to the death. Their struggle to preserve their own identity, their faiths, to prevent the hivemind from overcoming their culture as well, has given rise to a terrific resistance which, unfortunately for the free rangers, is ending badly.
One young free ranger, Enguerrand Duprey, has been abducted and compelled to act as bounty hunter for one of the most powerful men among hundreds of billions. The impossible realm into which Enguerrand is sent and the unfathomable quarry he is forced to seek sets off a series of events that strains the very fabric of the cosmos itself, daring to put effect before cause and setting into motion the most frightening event imaginable, one that will change not one universe, but two, and exposing something age-changing about the very nature of nature itself.
Captivating! An intricately designed and superbly entertaining tale of intrigue, politics and well-written science. If a few tears don’t well up in your eyes as you read it, check your pulse.
—Dr. Paul C. Burton, Publisher, Burton Digital Books
A page-turner that kept me on the edge of my seat from the first page to the last. What an ending!
—David Pierre, Author, Double Standard
270 pages, Paperback
Published November 14, 2023
About the author
David Nabhan
8 books4 followersDavid Nabhan--"Earthquake Prediction: Dawn of the New Seismology," (Skyhorse Publishing, June 2017)-- is a science writer who has been featured on the air or in print on a remarkable number of news fonts in the US and elsewhere--television, radio, and newspapers. The airtime and/or column space was garnered on some of the most recognized media venues in existence many, many hundreds of times: CBS News, Popular Science, Inside Edition, RT Television, London Daily Mail, Thom Hartmann Show, UK's Naked Scientists, Howard Stern Show, Drudge Report, MSNBC/Sirius Joe Madison , Los Angeles Daily News, San Francisco Examiner, etc. He is the author of four books concerning earthquakes, peer-reviewed papers on the subject, and many, many scores of newspaper and magazine op-eds regarding earthquakes, hydraulic fracking, dams and mining, climate issues and other important topics published on three continents and in two languages. Mr. Nabhan also is a science fiction writer, with two additional books in that genre ("Pilots of Borealis," Skyhorse Publishing/Talos Press, August, 2015). Many dozens of his interviews, articles, and op-eds can be accessed at www.earthquakepredictors.com
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