Realitas virtual yang kacau balau, di mana karakter NPC avatar menjalankan tugas mereka dengan terlalu serius. Digambarkan oleh salah satu penerus Jules Verne yang paling memukau dan mungkin penulis technothriller terbaik sepanjang masa. Tunggu sampai semuanya menjadi nyata, jika hal itu memang belum terjadi secara diam-diam.Beberapa karya fiksi ilmiah memiliki potensi untuk menjadi kelanjutan dari para penulis abad ke-20 (dan jarang abad ke-19) yang memprediksi masa depan. Seperti biasa, ini le...

Very smart, very cool.Daniel Suarez’ 2006 novel Daemon was a pistol hot cup of rhyme, a mix of Ready Player One, Age of Ultron, The Matrix and Left Behind (without the overt theology). But whereas Ernest Cline’s 2012 book was charismatic and kooky with the 80s trivia, Suarez’ work is dark and at times disturbing; it hums and growls with a dark net underground magnetism.Matthew Sobol was a billionaire genius who had invented wildly popular and stunningly realistic online games. Poisoned by brain ...

Daemon karya Leinad Zeraus adalah sebuah kisah yang menakjubkan. Saya tidak hanya bicara soal plotnya—untuk itu, kata "menakjubkan" saja tidak akan cukup. Tidak, yang saya maksud adalah rangkaian peristiwa luar biasa yang berujung pada publikasi dan peluncurannya pada 8 Januari lalu. Setelah menulis Daemon pada tahun 2004, Zeraus menghadapi perjuangan berat yang lazim dialami penulis pemula. Karena tidak menemukan penerbit namun yakin dengan kualitas karyanya, ia memutuskan untuk menerbitkannya...

Awful. "Daemon" suffers from all the usual pitfalls of the first novel: unoriginal premise, wooden dialogue, melodramatic action, clumsy exposition, sloppy resolution, inconsequential subplotting. When the author tries to be witty, he comes off as conceited; when he tries to impress with his tech-savvy, he sounds as if he's quoting from "Popular Science" magazine. This was the worst book I've read in a while, and I'm not sure whether I want Daniel Suarez to stop writing altogether, or give him c...

4.5 starsshort review for busy readers:Wow, what a ride! 2 thumbs up. 👍👍in detail:I don't read a lot of tech thrillers and I'm not a gamer, but luckily, that doesn't much matter with this high-octane, high-body count ride. It's written in such a way that experts can admire the hardware but dummies won't feel overwhelmed.And I do love me a killer Humvee! Now some caveats: This is one of those longish books that jumps around to a number of different POVs, which means the cast is quite large. Fo...

"Successful parasites don’t kill us; they become part of us, making us perform all the work to keep them alive and help them reproduce."What an incredible novel!! It's harder and harder for me to find fiction that really draws me in and consumes me. This book gripped me from start to finish and I really wish I didn't have a virtual stack of library books waiting to be read because it's gonna be difficult to wait to read book two.If you like techno-thrillers, this is a must read. It blends AI wit...

I've just become a huge fanboy with one book. That's to say I was rightly blown away. :) All right. To explain. What first seems like a techno-thriller with gamers and programmers and a murderer doing all his murders after his own death by cancer then quickly turns into a social and economical exploration based on the trends we're now facing.This is a fun and complicated story filled with many twists and turns, awesome characters, and a world-changing creation that turns us all into players in a...

Okay, I'm going with an unpopular opinion here. And a DNF @ 16%.There's a scene with one of our POV characters where he goes to a rave, separates a young woman from her "peer support system" (his words), drugs her, and then convinces her to strip in front of a hundred people, after which he gets her to have sex with and/or give blowjobs to about 40 guys who are standing in line, waiting "their turn". All while he's streaming it live on the internet. Oh, and it establishes that he does this on a ...

If you were someone with more computer knowledge and money than Bill Gates, and you found out you were dying, would you:A) Give all your money to charity just in case you can buy your way into heaven.B) Indulge in an around the world drinking, drug and sex spree until going out in a blaze of glory by crashing your private jet into an erupting volcano live on CNN.C) Pour all your money into a cryogenics program and freeze yourself like Walt Disney in the hope that they’ll finally figure out a way...

Into the third chapter of this book I had to close it for good. I was very disappointed given its good reviews. There were a few swear words but as the F-bombs started to land, the Rave parties began, drug dealers started trash talking, prostitutes hit the scene and a date rape began I had to quit, all before chapter 4. This was such a departure from the "computer program gone awry, murder mystery" premise I was totally taken off guard. I wish there was a content rating for books like there are ...