Daemon Hardback - 2009
by Suarez, Daniel
Already an underground sensation, a high-tech thriller for the wireless age thatexplores the unthinkable consequences of a computer program running without humancontrol a daemon designed to dismantle society and bring about a new world order
Technology controls almost everything in our modern-day world, fromremote entry on our cars to access to our homes, from the flight controlsof our airplanes to the movements of the entire world economy.Thousands of autonomous computer programs, or daemons, make ournetworked world possible, running constantly in the background ofour lives, trafficking e-mail, transferring money, and monitoring powergrids. For the most part, daemons are benign, but the same can't alwaysbe said for the people who design them.
Matthew Sobol was a legendary computer game designer the architectbehind half-a-dozen popular online games. His premature deathdepressed both gamers and his company's stock price. But Sobol'sfans aren't the only ones to note his passing. When his obituary isposted online, a previously dormant daemon activates, initiating achain of events intended to unravel the fabric of our hyper-efficient,interconnected world. With Sobol's secrets buried along with him, andas new layers of his daemon are unleashed at every turn, it's up to anunlikely alliance to decipher his intricate plans and wrest the worldfrom the grasp of a nameless, faceless enemy or learn to live in asociety in which we are no longer in control. . . .
Computer technology expert Daniel Suarez blends haunting high-techrealism with gripping suspense in an authentic, complex thriller in thetradition of Michael Crichton, Neal Stephenson, and William Gibson.
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- Title Daemon
- Author Suarez, Daniel
- Binding Hardback
- Edition 1st/1st
- Pages 448
- Language EN
- Publisher Dutton Adult, New York
- Date 2009-01-08
- ISBN 9780525951117
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