| Author | Howard V. Hendrix |
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| Cover artist | Victor Stabin |
| Country | United States of America |
| Language | English |
| Series | Tetragrammaton Series |
| Genre | Science fiction novel |
| Publisher | Penguin Putnam Inc. |
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Publication date
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October 15, 1999 |
| Media type | Print (Hardcover, Paperback) |
| Pages | 373 pp (1st edition, hardback) |
| ISBN | (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.
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.
"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".