Transcendence Author:Christopher McKitterick "Riveting." --Jack McDevitt, Nebula Award winning author of ECHO. Summary: Humankind rushes toward self-destruction and must evolve or die. Our perspective: a scientist exploring an alien artifact on Triton, a teen-aged hacker in a city gone mad, three actors manipulated into igniting interplanetary war, the de-facto ruler of half the solar syst... more »em, a soldier fighting in Africa to entertain his audience, an artificial intelligence facing personal crisis, and a cast of billions.« less