Daemon

extremely convenient implausible plot advances. we're almost 20 years post publication and none of this has manifested. literally nothing in this abortion of a book was ever likely, nor manifested. forget the basic plot gaps and shortcomings. this may be the most implausible thing you ever read. partially constituted command statements unleash killer self guided robot motorcycles? gtfo

I read this book in just a couple of days because I couldn't put it down and when I did I couldn't wait to get back to it. I found myself thinking about the book while I was at work. The technology isn't far fetch and could potentially happen today. I’ll be purchasing "Freedom" after I post this review to continue the excitement. The bad: My son would really like this but the adult content prevented me from letting him read it. The book has some minor grammatical errors like using "then" instead of "than". I just find those types of errors annoying after the writer has paid an editor to review the book. I certainly recommend this book to anyone interested in information security and/or computer gaming.

Based on reviews, if I wanted to read one Sci-Fi novel this year it would be this one. It wasn't *that* good, but still worth the read. Daemon is set in a future not very far off from today (perhaps 10-20 years) and is about the birth of a malicious AI Daemon. There are several interesting ideas such as the specific details of how a computer program could control people and harm them. However the narrative is shallower than it could have been, and the use of tech is not terribly surprising. This isn't a "Neuromancer" or "Ender's Game".