Better Angels (novel)
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''Better Angels'' is a
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novel by Howard V. Hendrix first published in 1999. Better Angels is a prequel to Hendrix's earlier novels ''Lightpath'' and ''
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'', filling in history about how the characters in those novels came to be who they are.


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In the novel, "Better angels" is a phrase used by agents of the 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". The phrase itself comes from the closing of
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's first inaugural address, in which he said that, despite the rising conflict in the
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, the shared history of Americans would "yet swell the chorus of the Union, when again touched, as surely they will be, by the better angels of our nature."


Release details

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


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* 1999 American novels 1999 science fiction novels Transhumanist books {{1990s-sf-novel-stub