![]() ![]() ![]() And if you do dismiss the book as just fiction, listen to Suarez’s speech on the true extent of today’s bot-mediated reality. Only gets 4 stars because the ending was a. If you play or have played WoW, I would recommend this book to you. Highly recommended and there is even a sequel due next year. Great tech/gaming murder/mystery/suspense book. If Lenin and Marx had just shared an apartment, perhaps a hundred million lives might have been spared and put to productive use making sneakers and office furniture.” “Anyone who has ever tried to share pizza with roommates knows that Communism cannot ever work. It is a good thriller and even gets into some deeper political and philosophical issues without being trite the way most techno-thrillers are. ![]() No doubt the book will inspire a whole new generation of bot-net creators. Daemon is a book that seeks to illustrate the mastery of technology over humanity. Prepare to open your eyes to a whole new vector of malevolent computing. But unlike those two, it is set in essentially the present day and can be realized with today’s technology or close to it. Daniel Suarez’s Daemon is a kick in the head akin to Neuromancer or Snow Crash. In one of the most buzzed-about debuts of 2009, Daniel Suarez introduced a terrifying vision of a new world order, controlled by the Daemon, an insidious computer program unleashed by a hi-tech wunderkind, Daemon captured the attention of the tech community, became a New York Times and Indie bestseller, and left readers hungry for. ![]()
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