{"id":12883,"date":"2018-10-07T11:31:24","date_gmt":"2018-10-07T06:01:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/manuscrypts.com\/test\/?p=12883"},"modified":"2020-11-15T13:49:39","modified_gmt":"2020-11-15T08:19:39","slug":"daemon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/manuscrypts.com\/test\/2018\/10\/07\/daemon\/","title":{"rendered":"Daemon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Daniel Suarez<\/em><\/p>\n<p>OMFG! That was one fantastic ride!<\/p>\n<p>An obituary of a genius gaming tycoon gets published, a program, or rather a complex logic tree system, is activated, and it begins its not-so-slow journey of taking over the world! The concept of a person infiltrating and controlling (and even micromanaging) people, events and corporations, after his death, doesn&#8217;t seem as far fetched once you get on this roller-coaster of a book.<\/p>\n<p>The immense tech knowledge that the author clearly possesses, meshes with a worldview that I definitely could relate to, and is nuanced with some very humane moments. It is as much a commentary of technology&#8217;s impact on society and individuals as it is an absolutely racy thriller that paces itself superbly. Pretty much an MMORPG set in the real world! What&#8217;s interesting is that at a certain point, it becomes very difficult to decide what the villain is &#8211; the Daemon or the government-military-industrial-corporation nexus that it seeks to destroy. The characters that fight for and against the Daemon are also an interesting bunch, with their own complex backstories, and sense of loyalty.<br \/>\nI thought this would be classified as cyberpunk, but apparently there is a thing called post-cyberpunk. Whatever it is, I can&#8217;t wait to read the second part of this amazing story!<\/p>\n<p>P.S. Somewhere in between, the author also manages to explain the reason for evolution deciding on sex as a means of reproduction! Fantastic stuff there too!<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-13148 lazyload\" data-src=\"https:\/\/manuscrypts.com\/test\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/Daemon.jpg\" alt=\"Daemon\" width=\"481\" height=\"582\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/manuscrypts.com\/test\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/Daemon.jpg 481w, https:\/\/manuscrypts.com\/test\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/Daemon-248x300.jpg 248w\" data-sizes=\"(max-width: 481px) 100vw, 481px\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 481px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 481\/582;\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This book is an exhilarating ride. Can a person, after his death, infiltrate, control and micromanage the lives of people, events and corporations? Quite so, if you go by this excellent post-cyberpunk thriller. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[370,6007,6009],"tags":[5605,5606],"class_list":["post-12883","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-fiction","category-science-speculative-fiction","tag-daemon","tag-daniel-suarez"],"aioseo_notices":[],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/manuscrypts.com\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12883","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/manuscrypts.com\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/manuscrypts.com\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/manuscrypts.com\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/manuscrypts.com\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12883"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/manuscrypts.com\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12883\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13294,"href":"https:\/\/manuscrypts.com\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12883\/revisions\/13294"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/manuscrypts.com\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12883"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/manuscrypts.com\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12883"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/manuscrypts.com\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12883"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}