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kleinbl00  ·  3371 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Let's create a list of essential scifi books

Audible has it at 42 hours. I gave it ten.

I so want you to read Daemon by Daniel Suarez but I freely admit it's the same sadistic instinct that makes me want to see Yo Yo Ma's take on Insane Clown Posse.





user-inactivated  ·  3371 days ago  ·  link  ·  

I just read the wikipedia page. I'd give it a shot on your recommendation, but it sounds like one of those cyberpunk things that really suffer from William Gibson's example, because William Gibson is awesome enough that he can get away with cowboys jacking in to their decks, and not everyone is William Gibson.

kleinbl00  ·  3371 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Before you devote 30 seconds to Daemon, know that it is the most cringe-worthy treatment of technology or plotting in the history of the English language. It is truly "make a gui in visual basic to track the killers" grade dreck. If Stephanie Meyer and Dan Brown set out to co-author a novelization of Threat Level Midnight, the results would be eerily similar to Daemon.

But only if both Stephanie Meyer and Dan Brown were repressed tech support nerds.

    “This had all the earmarks of an SQL-injection attack, and he had a favorite one. In the logon and password boxes he entered: ‘or 1=1--”