Daemon

a novel

Hardcover, 448 pages

English language

Published Nov. 10, 2009 by Dutton.

ISBN:
978-0-525-95111-7
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OCLC Number:
441460298

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3 stars (3 reviews)

Already an underground sensation, a high-tech thriller for the wireless age that explores the unthinkable consequences of a computer program running without human control-a daemon-designed to dismantle society and bring about a new world order

Technology controls almost everything in our modern-day world, from remote entry on our cars to access to our homes, from the flight controls of our airplanes to the movements of the entire world economy. Thousands of autonomous computer programs, or daemons, make our networked world possible, running constantly in the background of our lives, trafficking e-mail, transferring money, and monitoring power grids. For the most part, daemons are benign, but the same can't always be said for the people who design them.

Matthew Sobol was a legendary computer game designer-the architect behind half-a-dozen popular online games. His premature death depressed both gamers and his company's stock price. But Sobol's fans aren't the only ones to …

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reviewed Daemon by Daniel Suarez (Deamon, Book 1)

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3 stars

First read shortly after it was released, while much of this was still fiction. Fortunately we aren't at the stage of world takeover bots and automated killer cars - yet. Dropping a star on reread due to too much villainy and the fact that it ends in a cliffhanger. Tomorrow I start the sequel.

This is sort of a set piece for technology and we follow various people who encounter it and mostly die. The ending may have polished off the rest of the good guys - only the sequel will tell. The bad guys (and one bad set of subroutines created by the eccentric billionaire before he died) are quite evil, and other reviews have commented on the depravity displayed mid-book.

But is it good? For me it was hard to put down, with each new puzzle leading to the next, the bad guys usually one step ahead. The …

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Subjects

  • Computer programmers -- Fiction
  • Human-computer interaction -- Fiction
  • International economic integration -- Fiction