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DAEMON (Daemon Series) Paperback – December 29, 2009

by Daniel Suarez (Author)

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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...

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“Daemon does for surfing the web what Jaws did for swimming in the ocean...both entertaining and credible...an impressive debut novel.”—Chicago Sun-Times

“A chilling yet entirely plausible story of technology gone awry.”—St. Petersburg Times

“Fiendishly clever...an almost perfect guilty-pleasure novel.”—The Dallas Morning News

“A riveting debut.”—Publishers Weekly (starred review)

“This thrill-a-nanosecond novel is certainly faithful to the techno-traditions of Michael Crichton and should delight not only readers of the 'science gone awry' genre, but general adventure readers as well.”—Booklist

“Suarez's not-just-for-gamers debut is a stunner.”—Kirkus Reviews

“Greatest. Technothriller. Period. Suarez presents a fascinating account of autonomous logic-based terrorism, incorporating current and anticipated technologies to create a credible and quite clever story.”—William O'Brien, Former Director of Cybersecurity and Communications Policy, The White House

“Daemon is the real deal—a scary look at what can go wrong as we depend increasingly on computer networks.”—Craig Newmark, Founder Craigslist

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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Series: Daemon Series
Paperback: 632 pages
Publisher: Signet Books; 1st edition (December 29, 2009)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0451228731
ISBN-13: 978-0451228734
Product Dimensions: 4.3 x 1.4 x 7.6 inches
Shipping Weight: 13.6 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
Average Customer Review: 925 customer reviews
Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #64,543 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
- #4 in Books > Computers & Technology > Programming > Languages & Tools > RPG
- #362 in Books > Mystery, Thriller & Suspense > Thrillers & Suspense > Technothrillers
- #446 in Books > Science Fiction & Fantasy > Science Fiction > Cyberpunk

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Al Singh

A+ for originality

November 19, 2015

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Five stars are really not enough for a book like this. The plot and character development are not outstanding, but the story idea is so original that it alone is worthy of a Hugo or Nebula award. There are plenty of science fiction scenarios about a computer taking over the world; this story explores the more realistic and plausible scenario of not an actual computer, not an actual artificial intelligence, but simply a cleverly written program that can infect the world's computers and take them over. It's also a story that makes you stop and think about how every aspect of our lives is now impacted by computerized technology, and how easy it is for rogue actors to control that technology and thus control us. If that happens, will we resist, or will we submit to the Daemon? Before you answer, consider the technology that controls your bank account, your medical and employment records, your very identity. You might be surprised at how quickly you surrender to the Beast.

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Technical story is very good and thought out, but characters are too flat

March 24, 2018

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The technical details are very well researched, thought out, and realistic, but the characters are very flat and remind me a bit of the type of characters in a 70s cop TV show. Unfortunately I could not care about them, with the laudable exception of Agent Roy "Tripwire" Merritt during his ill-fated stay at the mansion. Well, coming to think of it, Brian Gragg was a well-developed character, although obviously no one can care about *him* :-).

I stuck with the book for quite a while, and then one day I realized I hadn't opened it for longer than a month... that's when I realized I wasn't going to finish it.

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justin

this book is not for you. it is about you

July 15, 2016

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Daemon is a great read, grounded in real technology stretched to a foreseeable horizon. Suarez clearly knows his way around modern computer systems and never relies on the wizardry as science so often seen in modern post-cyberpunk cyberpunk.

This book reads like a darker, more grounded "Ready Player One", soaked in the modern era rather than the eighties. It asks a lot if the reader, first and foremost to care that bits are agency in our society but also to contemplate the morality of automated decisioning and the abdication of control we often take for granted.

All summed, the story has its cliches and hickups but they are more a comforting spoon of sugar to help swallow the fact that Daemon is, in many ways an allegorical tale of the world we are building. This book is not for you. It is about you. It is about a plausible direction the world we are building could go.

More importantly, it is fun.

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Armando Fox

Dan Brown but more literate, more political, and for geeks

June 18, 2014

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Techno-populism meets the war-profiteering-military-industrial-complex in this fun and geeky romp of a techno-thriller. And the level of writing and literacy is considerably higher than Dan Brown or even Crichton, to whom Mr. Suarez has been compared (I think Suarez is better, actually).

The book isn't a piece of political philosophy, but it's informed by a lot of current threads and thinking about the increasing influence and power of a few large corporations and what we can and maybe should do about it.

It's not a piece of speculative science writing, but the technologies it describes are not completely unreasonable given the state of the art today, and Mr. Suarez's writing is clearly well informed from a technology perspective. None of the "now I'll just crack the encryption" or "Now I'll upload a virus" BS that so often infects other novels that have a technological bent.

Fair criticisms: Not perfect as a novel, some characters are better drawn than others or abandoned partway, the grasp of technology is deeper than the grasp of the inner workings of government, and it's true that the beginning is generally stronger and more solid than the middle/end; but as soon as I finished it I immediately purchased the sequel (the ending here is something of a cliffhanger) and promptly plowed right through it.

Overall intelligently written and in tune with the zeitgeist of the post-9/11 area. Lots and lots of fun, and in the end that's why I read fiction.

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Good Premise, poor execution

August 27, 2018

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Had I stopped reading this book at about the halfway mark, I would have given it 4 stars, maybe even 4 and a half. Good premise. Many of the things were plausible and I could go with that. AI has made great advances from the days I worked in it. But then, the last part of the book just got crazy. First, it was how much destruction can we put in. It was like one of the movies where they put in as much carnage, destruction, crashes and explosions as the budget will allow. Action. Then, hundreds of cars that can be directed to seek out individuals and kill them. And all of this preplanned by the ultimate gamer who died early due to cancer. Read the first half of the book and then quit. You'll have a good read and miss all the foolishness.

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Clever, fast... ...and flawed

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An amalgamation of all we've learned about technology and its meanings for the human race

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Steve Jones

Only half the novel

Ended with the need to purchase 2nd book to reach a conclusion

What a frightening look into one of our futures as technology really takes over on levels that scare me to my core.

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Claude Rains

Very compelling

This was a horrifying dystopian novel that feels like it's right around the corner. I'm not sure I'm brave enough to read the second book and now I feel like I need to go back to...Read more

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Benjamin W. Strahan

Great book

Many storylines that weave in and out. Technical references that are believable. This book is a great thriller for any technical person.

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Mark

I can't stop rereading this book

Everything is so plausible, that's what really blew my mind about this book. I read it probably 10 times

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W. Gray

Who listed this book as a 9 page short read?

Who listed this book as a 9 page short read? One star for deceitful marketing.

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Much more than just a great techno-thriller...

Yes, this is an excellent techno-thriller. But it is much more than that, and it surprises me that (as far as a few quick searches have shown) not a single reviewer has yet...Read more

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