num_pages: 304
description: A Top 5 Amazon book#1 BESTSELLER SCIENCE FICTION AND FANTASY#1 BESTSELLER PHILOSOPHYWINNER Visionary Fiction - International Book AwardsLeading futurist philosopher and former National Geographic journalist Zoltan Istvan presents his award-winning bestselling visionary novel The Transhumanist Wager as a seminal statement of our times.His philosophical thriller has been called revolutionary life-changing and a masterpiece by readers scholars and critics. The novel debuts a challenging original philosophy which rebuffs modern civilization by inviting the end of the human speciesand declaring the onset of something greater.Set in the present day the novel tells the story of transhumanist Jethro Knights and his unwavering quest for immortality via science and technology. Fighting against him are fanatical religious groups economically depressed governments and mystic Zoe Bach: a dazzling trauma surgeon and the love of his life whose belief in spirituality and the afterlife is absolute. Exiled from America and reeling from personal tragedy Knights forges a new nation of willing scientists on the world's largest seastead Transhumania. When the world declares war against the floating libertarian city demanding an end to its renegade and godless transhuman experiments and ambitions Knights strikes back leaving the planet forever changed.
language: English
title: The Transhumanist Wager
publisher: Futurity Imagine Media LLC