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Acts of the Apostles. By John F.X.Sundman.

Software developer Nick Aubrey turns down a job with
megalomaniacal computing billionaire Monty Meekman.
And then a Gulf War Syndrome conspiracy theorist sitting
next to him on the plane commits suicide, leaving him with
an encrypted floppy. Nick finds himself on the run, not just
from the Salt Lake City Airport Police and the True
Patriots of the Natural Law militia but from nanotechnology
that will change his DNA and reprogram his brain.

Meanwhile his estranged wife Bartlett is part of a biotech
research group mapping the human brain, his friend Casey
is still grieving for a chip designer shot five years ago
and in a coma ever since, and a biologist at a
pharmaceutical company in Basel is beginning to have
ethical doubts about his work...

What sets this book apart is the sophistication with
which it deals with ideas and technology and the depth
and interest of its characters.

Acts of the Apostles involves chip design and fabrication, the
human genome project, nanotechnology, Maslow, Vannevar
Bush, the convergence of the digital and the biological, and
much more. Sundman really knows his stuff, whether it\'s
encrypted files, restoring a cracked Unix machine, or an
attempt to reverse engineer a chip. The same is true of his
characters:
Sundman convincingly portrays smart, complex people.
He knows how geeks and techies and academics actually
think and talk, and is obviously familiar with the social life
of academia and high-powered IT corporations.

Acts of the Apostles works as a novel, not one that will appeal
to everyone, but an entertaining read for anyone after an
infotech-thriller with real information technology.

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