Man vs. machine, cryonics, mind uploading...a science fiction book that's Amazon's #1 book under the category Philosophy is The Transhumanist Wager. Istvan says religious people are challenged by transhumanists.\"-Fox News Channel<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
An unwieldy novel of ideas about a freelance philosopher named Jethro Knights who sails around the world to promote the need for life-extension research and winds up establishing a floating libertarian city-state called Transhumania--a regulation-free utopia of tech billionaires and rationalists--from which he wages an atheist holy war on a theocratic United States.-The New York Times<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
\"The novel has been described as a modern version ofAtlas Shrugged.\"-Yahoo News<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
\"The biggest novel on the transhumanist scene is Istvan's. 'The Transhumanist Wager' reads like Dan Brown's undergradudate thesis -- a rollicking plot setting out futurist thought, manifesto style.\" -The Spectator<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
\"Protagonist Jethro Knights may become one of the grand characters of modern fiction.\" -Psychology Today<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
\"Transhumanism is snowballing into an international movement. The current wave of debate surrounding the concept began withThe Transhumanist Wager.\"-Breitbart<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
\"This book is an edgy riveting masterpiece that will long linger with anyone who reads it.\"-Serious Wonder<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
\"An Ayn Rand-esque manifesto.\" -The New Yorker<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
\"Best-selling and award-winning novel.\" -Reason<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
\"The Transhumanist Wager tells the story of Jethro Knights, a philosopher who rails against democratic politics and becomes a revolutionary that seizes control of the world in order to enforce a global authoritarian transhuman regime.\"-BBC<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
\"Istvan, a prominent transhumanist writer...enlightens me. In The Transhumanist Wager, transhumanists manage to launch the third world war.\"-The Telegraph<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
\"The Transhumanist Wager envisions a radical future.\" -CBS News<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
\"It's a dystopian story that imagines a Christian nation outlawing transhumanism prompting all the billionaires to retreat to an offshore sea-stead where they can work on their advances undisturbed.\"-The Times Magazine<\/p>\n
\"Many sayThe Transhumanist Wageris the newAtlas Shrugged.\"-Marin Magazine<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
\"It's a page turner. Istvan knows how to tell a compelling story.\" -io9 \/ Gizmodo<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
\"IenjoyedThe Transhumanist Wager...an adventurous suspense-filled semi-sci-fi about sailing, love, and life extension.\" -The Huffington Post<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
\"About a man's quest to live forever using science, medicine, and technology.\"Popular Science<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
Thrilling...an important literary work that everyone should read.\"-Guardian Liberty Voice<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
\"Bestselling The Transhumanist Wager& famous transhumanist Zoltan Istvan...a new philosophy, a new psychology, a new metaphysics...the concept of people taking a Transhumanist Wager is making a strong impact.\" -RT Television<\/p>\n
\"It's set in a dystopian near-future America in which transhumanists are on the verge of huge technological breakthroughs but are under attack from conservative politicians and radical Christian fundamentalist terrorists.\"-Vox<\/p>\n
\"A gripping story...it's my new favorite novel.\"-Brighter Brains<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
\"Istvan demonstrates great adeptness at crafting complex characters.\"-San Francisco Book Review<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
\"The story is brilliant. It will challenge your thinking.\" -33voices<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
\"Fascinating. It'smaking waves.\"-Good Day Sacramento, CBS TV<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
\"Istvan's novel has the potential to become a cult book. I hope it will be widely read and discussed.\" -Kurzweil AI<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
\"A philosophical manifesto...the world becomes ruled by scientists.\" -Vice (Italy)<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
\"Strongly libertarian...a radical version of transhumanism.\"-Patheos<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
\"The action sequences in the book are top notch.\"-New York Journal of Books<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
\"The book asks a simple question: how far would you go to fight an anti-science world in order to live indefinitely through transhumanism? Protagonist Jethro Knights would start a world war - and does so in the book\"-Wired UK<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
\"The Transhumanist Wagerpromises to become a cult classic among futurists.\"-SASM Institute<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
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