Shift /
Howey, Hugh,
Shift / Hugh Howey. - First Houghton Mifflin Harcourt edition. - 570 pages ; 22 cm - Silo trilogy ; bk. 2 . - Howey, Hugh. Silo trilogy ; bk. 2. .
"A John Joseph Adams Book."
In 2007, the Center for Automation in Nanobiotech (CAN) outlined the hardware and software platforms that would one day allow robots smaller than human cells to make medical diagnoses, conduct repairs, and even self-propagate. In the same year, the CBS network re-aired a program about the effects of propranolol on sufferers of extreme trauma. A simple pill, it had been discovered, could wipe out the memory of any traumatic event. At almost the same moment in humanity's broad history, mankind discovered the means for bringing about its utter downfall. And the ability to forget it ever happened.
9780544839618 0544839617 9780544839649 0544839641
2016004633
Dystopias--Fiction.
Nanomedicine--Fiction.
Memory--Fiction.
Science fiction.
Dystopian fiction.
Shift / Hugh Howey. - First Houghton Mifflin Harcourt edition. - 570 pages ; 22 cm - Silo trilogy ; bk. 2 . - Howey, Hugh. Silo trilogy ; bk. 2. .
"A John Joseph Adams Book."
In 2007, the Center for Automation in Nanobiotech (CAN) outlined the hardware and software platforms that would one day allow robots smaller than human cells to make medical diagnoses, conduct repairs, and even self-propagate. In the same year, the CBS network re-aired a program about the effects of propranolol on sufferers of extreme trauma. A simple pill, it had been discovered, could wipe out the memory of any traumatic event. At almost the same moment in humanity's broad history, mankind discovered the means for bringing about its utter downfall. And the ability to forget it ever happened.
9780544839618 0544839617 9780544839649 0544839641
2016004633
Dystopias--Fiction.
Nanomedicine--Fiction.
Memory--Fiction.
Science fiction.
Dystopian fiction.