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DAEMON (Daemon Series) par Daniel Suarez
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DAEMON (Daemon Series) (original 2009; édition 2009)

par Daniel Suarez (Auteur)

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Fiction. Science Fiction. Suspense. Thriller. HTML: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 coul
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Titre:DAEMON (Daemon Series)
Auteurs:Daniel Suarez (Auteur)
Info:Signet Books (2009), Edition: 1st, 632 pages
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Daemon par Daniel Suarez (2009)

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To summarize the story without giving anything away… this is a book about our reliance on technology and how it factors in with human (and societal) evolution. It is a high-energy action-packed adventure with elements of espionage, game theory, and our innate ability to not see what is right in front of our face.

This is a really good book. It is well written and perfectly paced. It is equally unbelievable and plausible in parallel which really makes you think.

The major characters are believable and developed while the minor characters suffer slightly from stereotyping and trope fatigue but it doesn’t detract from the story.

The audiobook version is expertly narrated and I look forward to reading the next book in the series. ( )
  philibin | Mar 25, 2024 |
(2009)Thriller of a poweful man who dies but unleashes a malevolent computer virus that turns out to threaten the world. Believable at first but quickly turns into comic book style violence and hard to believe climax. Doesn't really end as this is the first in a series. Won't bother with the sequel. Robin Cook:Daemon is an ambitious novel, which sets out not only to entertain, which it surely does, but also to challenge the reader to consider social issues as broad as the implications of living in a technologically advanced world and whether democracy can survive in such a world.The storyline portrays one possible world consequent to the development of the technological innovations that we currently live with and the reality that the author, Suarez, imagines will evolve, and it is chilling and tense (on www.thedaemon.com the reader can find evidence that the seemingly incredible advances Suarez proposes could in fact become real). Daemon is filled with multiple scenes involving power displays by the Daemon's allies resulting in complete loss of control by its enemies, violence with new and innovative weaponry, explosions, car crashes, blood, guts, and limbs-cut-off galore.As far as computer complexity, Daemon will satisfy any computer geek's thirst. I was thankful for Pete Sebeck, the detective in the book whose average-person understanding of computers necessitates an occasional explanation about what is going on. I came away from the novel with a new understanding, respect, and fear of computer capability.In the end, Suarez invites the reader to enter the "second age of reason," to think about where recent and imminent advances in computer technology are taking us and whether we want to go there. For me, it is this "thinking" aspect of the novel which makes it a particularly fun, satisfying, and significant read.
  derailer | Jan 25, 2024 |
Nonostante Daemon sia un thriller pieno di azione e tecnologia sofisticatissima, mi ha annoiato a morte. Il suo problema principale mi è sembrata la sua inverosimiglianza, alla quale si è aggiunta la sensazione che la storia non stesse andando da nessuna parte e che non fosse nient’altro che azione e suspense fine a se stesse.

Quest’ultima sensazione è stata spazzata via dal finale, dove viene finalmente data una parvenza di senso a quello che si è letto fino a quel momento, sebbene la spiegazione sia stata tutt’altro che soddisfacente, visto che la vera questione morale che giustifica l’esistenza di questa storia sembrerebbe essere stata in toto rimandata al secondo volume della duologia, rendendo di fatto le quasi cinquecento pagine di Daemon soltanto un prologo di quella che dovrebbe essere la parte più interessante.

Ora, il condizionale è d’obbligo perché rimane comunque il problema della verosimiglianza. Tutto l’ambaradan viene messo su da un certo Sobol, il classico genio pazzo della Silicon Valley che ha messo su un impero creando videogiochi online, convinto di essere sostanzialmente l’unico in grado di salvare il mondo. È possibile che il mio scetticismo sia alimentato dal fatto che i geni pazzi della Silicon Valley ultimamente non se la passano benissimo, tra licenziamenti di massa e colpi di testa assortiti, ma trovo strano che un uomo, morto per un tumore a soli 34 anni, abbia trovato il tempo di mettere su questo piano così sofisticato.

Per carità, ci viene detto che alcune parti di questo piano sono state programmate da persone inconsapevoli di quello che stavano facendo, ma a questo punto mi sembra strano che nessunə si sia accortə che Sobol aveva in testa delle idee strane. Poi magari sta parlando la mia ignoranza in informatica e tutto questo è perfettamente plausibile – d’altro canto Suarez è un consulente informatico, non è che per scrivere questo romanzo si è limitato a leggere Wikipedia – ma sento che è stato chiesto un po’ troppo alla mia sospensione dell’incredulità. ( )
  lasiepedimore | Jan 25, 2024 |
Damn you, Daniel Suarez! Or more appropriately: Damn you, Daniel Suarez' publisher! This book ends with almost nothing resolved. It just points to the next book, [b:Freedom (TM)|7132363|Freedom (TM) (Daemon, #2)|Daniel Suarez|http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1276198151s/7132363.jpg|7394861], where (I understand from an author interview) the story really does end. Nonetheless, this is a fun thriller, comparable to a Michael Chrichton work. But like most thrillers, I would characterize it as "frothy": almost immediately upon finishing it, it seems insubstantial. It's like walking out of an action movie I enjoyed seeing, but knowing I won't spend a lot of time thinking about afterward. Except in Daemon's case, there are hints of an underlying sociological/philosophical viewpoint that I want to read more of. So I guess I will definitely be reading the sequel. Just not immediately. ( )
  Treebeard_404 | Jan 23, 2024 |
Story: 7 / 10
Characters: 6
Setting: 6
Prose: 6 ( )
  MXMLLN | Jan 12, 2024 |
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Apparently, people thought nothing of hanging their personal fortunes on technology they didn't understand. This would be their undoing.
Every day was filled with surprises. What a change from the network affiliate. Her new boss was an undead automaton from hell, true, but no job was perfect.
Anyone who has ever tried to share pizza with roommates knows that Communism cannot ever work. If Lenin and Marx had just shared an apartment, perhaps a hundred million lives might have been spared and put to productive use making sneakers and office furniture.
In all, his outfit required nearly two thousand man-years of research and development, eight barrels of oil, and sixteen patent and trademark infringement lawsuits. All so he could possess casual style. A style that, in logistical requirements, was comparable to fielding a nineteenth-century military brigade.
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Mammals of every species indulge in play. Games are Nature's way of preparing us to face difficult realities.
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Fiction. Science Fiction. Suspense. Thriller. HTML: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 coul

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