![]() ![]() "After I finished Dark Matter, I really wanted to write a book that tackled gene-editing," he says. As the book opens, Logan is exposed to something in a lab he's raiding, wakes up in a hospital, and suspects that he's been exposed to some sort of a gene-editing package that is about to change his body and his mind spectacularly."Ĭrouch initially planned on writing Upgrade several years ago but was put off by the vast amount of research the book required. ![]() We come into this world where her son Logan is trying to make amends, and he works for the Gene Protection Agency, which was created as a reaction to what his mom did, to stamp out illegal gene editing. The Gene Protection Act came in in the wake of the Great Starvation and essentially ended all gene-editing research, because people said, we can't ever have this happen again. Instead of fixing this one thing, she ends up plunging us into what came to be known as the Great Starvation. "Twenty-some years prior to the events of the book, his mom, Miriam, who was a world-renowned geneticist, was in China with this wild gene-modifying tool she created, trying to edit this rice blight out of a crop. "The protagonist is a guy named Logan Ramsey," says Crouch, whose previous books include 2016's Dark Matter, and 2019's Recursion. ![]() Matthew Staver 'Upgrade' author Blake Crouch ![]()
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