Daemon

· Daemon Series Book 1 · Sold by Penguin
4.7
435 reviews
Ebook
640
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About this ebook

Daniel Suarez’s New York Times bestselling debut high-tech thriller is “so frightening even the government has taken note” (Entertainment Weekly).

Daemons: computer programs that silently run in the background, waiting for a specific event or time to execute. They power almost every service. They make our networked world possible. But they also make it vulnerable...
 
When the obituary of legendary computer game architect Matthew Sobol appears online, a previously dormant daemon activates, initiating a chain of events that begins to unravel our interconnected world. This daemon reads news headlines, recruits human followers, and orders assassinations. With Sobol’s secrets buried with him, and as new layers of his daemon are unleashed, it’s up to Detective Peter Sebeck to stop a self-replicating virtual killer before it achieves its ultimate purpose—one that goes far beyond anything Sebeck could have imagined...

Ratings and reviews

4.7
435 reviews
chuck kleinheksel
September 19, 2023
extremely convenient implausible plot advances. we're almost 20 years post publication and none of this has manifested. literally nothing in this abortion of a book was ever likely, nor manifested. forget the basic plot gaps and shortcomings. this may be the most implausible thing you ever read. partially constituted command statements unleash killer self guided robot motorcycles? gtfo
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A Google user
August 26, 2012
I read this book in just a couple of days because I couldn't put it down and when I did I couldn't wait to get back to it. I found myself thinking about the book while I was at work. The technology isn't far fetch and could potentially happen today. I’ll be purchasing "Freedom" after I post this review to continue the excitement. The bad: My son would really like this but the adult content prevented me from letting him read it. The book has some minor grammatical errors like using "then" instead of "than". I just find those types of errors annoying after the writer has paid an editor to review the book. I certainly recommend this book to anyone interested in information security and/or computer gaming.
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Tushar Chandra
May 26, 2014
Based on reviews, if I wanted to read one Sci-Fi novel this year it would be this one. It wasn't *that* good, but still worth the read. Daemon is set in a future not very far off from today (perhaps 10-20 years) and is about the birth of a malicious AI Daemon. There are several interesting ideas such as the specific details of how a computer program could control people and harm them. However the narrative is shallower than it could have been, and the use of tech is not terribly surprising. This isn't a "Neuromancer" or "Ender's Game".
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About the author

Daniel Suarez is the New York Times bestselling author of Daemon, Freedom™, Kill Decision, Influx, and Change Agent. A former systems consultant to Fortune 1000 companies, his high-tech and sci-fi thrillers focus on technology-driven change. He lives in Los Angeles, California.

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