Remember that time your Dad told you the implant in your brain didn’t just control your seizures, but that it had “something extra”? Me neither. But it’s a day Owen Gray will never forget.
You see, Owen is a medical Amp. Amps have Neural Autofocus Brain Implants; Reggies have none. Doctors have been implanting people young and old for eight years to cure things like ADD, Downs Syndrome, and traumatic brain injury. These implants irreversibly change neural circuits, and some Reggies now claim Amps are less-than-human. Discrimination and targeted hate-crimes ensue. Add in a zealous Senator, and Owen’s life soon depends on finding out what that “something extra” is, and what it does.
Readers who appreciate Robert Neville’s struggle to avoid, and then eventually accept, human evolution in I Am Legend will find Amped equally thought-provoking. Although Richard Matheson’s classic tale moves at a much slower pace.