Better Angels

Better Angels

Infobox Book |
name = Better Angels


author = Howard V. Hendrix
cover_artist = Victor Stabin
country = United States of America
language = English
series = Tetragrammaton Series
genre = Science fiction novel
publisher = Penguin Putnam Inc.
release_date = October 15, 1999
media_type = Print (Hardcover, Paperback)
pages = 373 pp (1st edition, hardback)
isbn = ISBN 0441006523 (1st edition, hardback)
followed_by = Lightpath

"Better Angels" is a science fiction novel by Howard V. Hendrix first published in 1999.

Plot introduction

Better Angels is a prequel to Hendrix's earlier novesl 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 described 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". Fact|date=March 2007

Release details

*1999, United States of America, Penguin Putnam Inc. ISBN 0441006523, Pub date 15 October 1999, Hardback
*2000, United States of America, Penguin Putnam Inc. ISBN 0441007678, Pub date 7 November 2000, Paperback

ources, references, external links, quotations


* [http://www.howardvhendrix.com/02_books/07_betterangels.htm Official page]
* [http://www.space.com/sciencefiction/better_angels_991020.html Space.com review] by Chris Aylott


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