TY - BOOK AU - Howey,Hugh TI - Shift SN - 9780544839618 PY - 2016/// CY - Boston, New York PB - Houghton Mifflin Harcourt KW - Dystopias KW - Fiction KW - Nanomedicine KW - Memory KW - Dystopies KW - Romans, nouvelles, etc KW - FICTION / Science Fiction / General KW - bisacsh KW - fast KW - sears KW - Dystopian fiction KW - Science fiction KW - gsafd KW - lcgft N1 - "A John Joseph Adams Book."; "New York Times best-selling author of Wool (silo trilogy, volume I)"--Dust jacket N2 - "In 2007, the Center for Automation in Nanobiotech (CAN) outlined the hardware and software platforms that would one day allow robots smaller than human cells to make medical diagnoses, conduct repairs, and even self-propagate. In the same year, the CBS network re-aired a program about the effects of propranolol on sufferers of extreme trauma. A simple pill, it had been discovered, could wipe out the memory of any traumatic event. At almost the same moment in humanity's broad history, mankind discovered the means for bringing about its utter downfall. And the ability to forget it ever happened. This is the second volume in theNew York Timesbest-selling Wool series"-- ER -