Nexus trilogy (Nexus, Crux, Apex)
Overview
- Work_type:: near-future SF about neural enhancement
- Setting:: 21st-century Earth, but concepts generalize to confined or space habitats
- Scale:: Planetary, with implications for future interplanetary missions
- Transhuman_type:: hybrid
- Mechanism:: Nano-drug and software enabling direct brain-to-brain links and software-extended cognition
- Degree_of_change:: Moderate to high; humans gain new senses and group-mind capabilities while remaining embodied
Survival logic
- Survival_strategy:: Use shared cognition and enhanced intellect to coordinate, adapt, and solve complex crises
- Key_technologies:: High-bandwidth neural links, AI assistance, ubiquitous computation
- Main_constraints_addressed:: Individual cognitive limits, coordination problems, psychological isolation
View on baseline humanity
- View_on_baseline:: continuity
- Attitude:: Baselines coexist with enhanced humans; conflict arises but enhancement is framed as an evolution of humanity, not its end
- Identity_question:: Explores whether networked persons are still individuals and what “self” means under high connectivity
Notes
- Themes:: Ethics of enhancement, governance of powerful technologies, emergent collective minds
- Open_questions:: How a Nexus-style species would cope with long-duration, isolated space travel
- Links:: Trans-human Space Survival Schema