Better Angels

For other uses, see Better Angels (disambiguation).
Not to be confused with The Better Angels of Our Nature.
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.
Publication date
October 15, 1999
Media type Print (Hardcover, Paperback)
Pages 373 pp (1st edition, hardback)
ISBN 0-441-00652-3 (1st edition, hardback)
OCLC 41419615
813/.54 21
LC Class PS3558.E49526 B4 1999
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 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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