Booklog 27/2024: Dennis E. Taylor: Singularity Trap – Audiobook

[jacey]

Ivan Pritchard, an impoverished computer programmer, buys into an asteroid mining expedition, a last throw of the dice to keep his wife and kids out of poverty on a troubled future Earth. It's all going well, a big strike is going to make them all billionaires until Ivan touched something unusual. It coats the arm of his space suit with a chrome-like substance and continues to work its way into his body, replacing flesh, bone and blood with alien nanites until Ivan is a silver effigy of himself, but with movement and mind intact. From then on things get complicated with the scientific community and military at odds. And,,, could it be that Ivan is not alone in his new body. Does whatever he has become intend to save or destroy humankind and what can Ivan do about it? Tense and exciting, this grabs your interest and holds on to it. Excellent narration by Ray Porter.