Enter the futuristic city of Cybernetica. A civilization where all thoughts are influenced by a widespread brain-to-computer interface system called sublimation. Short for 'subliminal animation', its technology has the power to regulate actions, and thereby events, through the surgically implanted brain matrix of every human being under its control. Here is a world of virtual reality and dangerous techno wars. A futuristic look into the next generation of computer hacking, where biology itself is the battleground.
Welcome to cyberspace...
Two conmen hired in a major investigation. A famous actress marked for corporate assassination. One biologically enhanced bodyguard wrangled by a moral dilemma. In a future where life is controlled by cybernetics, the convergence of these four paths will lead to a reckoning between factions vying for global power.
All of future decided by the matrix...
Thirty-five years after the devastating Encryption Wars, the rise of sublimation from the city of Cybernetica has left a criminal subculture brewing--those who fall outside its technological parameters of control. Now, following the first successful attack in its cyberspace, a group of insurgents called the drifters are aiming to destroy and recreate the very civilization it supports. In a world of covert wars, corporate dealings, and government corruptions, there are but few who not only hold the fate of the future... but the secrets of the past.
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Michael Cavallaro's debut a big success,
By Metacom Shays (Washington DC) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Cybernetica (Paperback)
I just finished Michael Cavallaro's first novel, Cybernetica. It is a fast-moving, thoroughly engaging novel. The story was enticing and interesting, creating both an "inner" and an "outer" landscape into which the reader is enveloped as the story progresses. In this way, it reminded me of a kind of mixture of a 21st century Blade Runner (an outer landscape with interesting appeals to all the senses) and the Matrix (an inner landscape involving cyber realities and machinations leading to moments of surprise and revelation).
It really was an enjoyable novel, the kind that takes you away for the time you are amongst the pages; and the kind which you find yourself re-visiting as daydreams in the time before re-opening the pages. I would recommend to anyone, not just sci-fi fans. I'm looking forward to his next work.
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Fans of The Matrix will adore this novel.,
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At the peak of the technological revolution there was a war between governments and large corporations over computer access codes, privatized data, and net security. Breaking down firewalls and stealing from competitors became routine. Corporations and governments world-wide stole from one another, hijacked enemy mainframes, spread viruses, and sabotaged networks. "Netrunners" were hired continuously to either create better cyber defenses or break into newly created cyber defenses. History calls it The Encryption War. Since that time the world has lived through three encryption wars. A fragile treaty is the only thing that stands between peace and a fourth war.
Needless-to-say, the public evolved during it all. Most people in the world now have chips in their heads. It began as a mental performance inhibitor (or at least that is how the government sold it to the public). It is now called Sublimation. A DNI transmitter can subliminally activate the functions of brain operation controlling abstract thought, sending commands into the unconscious mind without the host ever knowing it. The world does not realize that the classic fictional story "1984" by author George Orwell has finally come true. Galaxy Pictures holds their latest movie premier, starring Annalise DeSoto, at the Omega Theater. The audience plugs their chips into the stems and actually feel as though they are inside the movie. This will later be noted as the first successful cyber attack in history. There is only one survivor, Annalise. The Onyx/Enigma Group owns Galaxy Pictures. They hire a solo named Nisha to protect Annalise. (To put it simply, a solo is an altered person, super human.) But Annalise and Nisha are soon marked for death by their own corporations. A group of insurgents called "drifters" (immune to sublimation) are launching their long-planned for revolution to destroy their version of Big Brother. The question now is not whether Annalise or Nisha will survive, but will the world. **** Fans of the Matrix Trilogy films will adore this novel. There is much more going on within the book than I explain in the synopsis above, as well as other major characters. But to even touch upon them would triple the size of this review. The story begins with the cyber attack at the movie premier. But afterward the story slows down a lot. This is necessary to help the reader understand how society functions in this futuristic time line. Once the reader comprehends it all, the pace picks back up. From there on, it is non-stop action. In fact, should this novel ever be made into a film, it would probably rival "The Matrix". Excellent hard core science fiction! **** Reviewed by Detra Fitch of Huntress Reviews.
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Fabulous storytelling,
This review is from: Cybernetica (Paperback)
Thirty-five years have passed since the destruction caused by the Encryption Wars devastated much of society. In direct reaction, the computer based subliminal animation, known as sublimation was created to regulate actions. All humans living in Cybernetica were expected to undergo the surgical implant of a chip to control the behavior of the law abiding citizens.
However, there exist those outside the domination of the implants. These are lumped together as criminals and hunted down by the leaders of the corporatism that rule the city. That in turn has led to some banding together of the fringe element. One particular group, the Drifters, plans to tear down sublimation and return civilization to its roots of freedom, but this revolt will be fought mostly in cyberspace, which is owned and controlled by the Cybernetica corporatism. However, no one is prepared for the spark, an assassination attempt of an actress or the results of the hiring from shadows of two con artists to investigate the murder. CYBERNETICA is an intriguing science fiction cautionary thriller that brings 1984 into the cyber age by depicting a society in which computers do the thinking for people. The story line moves forward on several fronts including the who-done-it, but deftly comes together with a battle to determine the future of mankind; one side wants programmed cattle while the other prefers free will. Orwellian fans and anyone who appreciate a well written exhilarating warning tale about the government-industrial-media complex telling us when to go to the bathroom will want to read this dark futuristic thriller. Harriet Klausner
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