Book: Daemon -Daniel Suarez
Title: Daemon
Author: Daniel Suarez
Media: Audiobook
Date: February 2010
Rating: 10/10
A famous videogame designer dies, unleashing an automated computer program that begins infiltrating corporate networks and setting up a new post-government world order. Sure it’s silly, over-reaching, and features a Mad Max degree of car-as-weapon fetishism… but this is a fun read (OK, listen). Contrasted with The Caryatids, this is freakin’ brilliant as entertainment.
Of course, as a nerd I was not always sure which side to cheer for. Sure, the Daemon is a heartless machine that kills whatever gets in it’s way. But it rewards followers well, provides operatives with awesome technology, reins in the Asian and Russian pr0n rings to extort a massive profit, and assassinates spammers. And the government is no better.
I look forward to reading the sequel. I just hope that the Sergeant’s faction wins out against Loki’s. (Read the book to understand that).
