Language English Publication date October 15, 1999 Publisher G. P. Putnam's Sons | Series Tetragrammaton Series Originally published 15 October 1999 ISBN 0-441-00652-3 Cover artist Victor Stabin | |
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Country United States of America Media type Print (Hardcover, Paperback) Pages 373 pp (1st edition, hardback) Genres Novel, Science Fiction, Speculative fiction Similar Lightpaths, Standing Wave, The ecstasy of catastrophe, The Labyrinth Key, Empty Cities of the Full M | ||
Better Angels is a science fiction novel by Howard V. Hendrix first published in 1999.
Contents
Plot introduction
Better Angels is a prequel to Hendrix's earlier novels Lightpath and Standing Wave, filling in history about how the characters in those novels came to be who they are.
Explanation of the novel's title
"Better angels" is a phrase used by agents of organization Tetragrammatron to describe what they hope to make humanity into. Tetragrammatron is concerned with ensuring humanity's survival by creating a machine/human transcendences, turning humans into "better angels".
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