[bksvol-discuss] Next Meeting of the Science Fiction Club, Thursday, November 8, 2012
- From: "Evan Reese" <mentat1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <bookshare-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>, <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>, "Bob Acosta" <boacosta@xxxxxxxxxxx>, "SF list" <scifi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sat, 13 Oct 2012 15:24:48 -0400
Hello Folks,
We had another good meeting, with most of us enjoying our book, Daemon by
Daniel Suarez. We decided that enough of us wanted to find out how the story
ended to read the second half together, Freedom (TM).
Our next meeting will be on Thursday, November 8, 2012.
Place, Book Nook at:
http://conference321.com/masteradmin/room.asp?id=rs7867a2369e0e
Time, 9 PM Eastern, 8 PM Central, 7 PM Mountain, 6 PM Pacific, and 01:00 UTC.
Our book for this month is Freedom (TM), the sequel to Daemon, by Daniel
Suarez, available from both Bookshare and BARD.
The Bookshare version is at:
https://www.bookshare.org/browse/book/151022
and the BARD version is at:
http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.nls/db.71118
Here's the long synopsis from Bookshare:
2009 saw one of the most inventive techno-thriller debuts in decades as Daniel
Suarez introduced his terrifying and
tantalizing vision of a new world order. Daemon captured the attention of the
tech
community, became a national bestseller, garnered attention from futurists,
literary
critics, and the halls of government-leaving readers clamoring for the
conclusion
to Suarez's epic story. In the opening chapters of Freedom(tm), the Daemon is
well
on its way toward firm control of the modern world, using an expanded network of
real-world, dispossessed darknet operatives to tear apart civilization and
rebuild
it anew. Civil war breaks out in the American Midwest, with the mainstream media
stoking public fear in the face of this 'Corn Rebellion'. Former detective Pete
Sebeck,
now the Daemon's most famous and most reluctant operative, must lead a small
band
of enlightened humans in a populist movement designed to protect the new world
order.
But the private armies of global business are preparing to crush the Daemon once
and for all. In a world of conflicted loyalties, rapidly diminishing government
control,
and a new choice between free will and the continuing comforts of ignorance, the
stakes could not be higher: hanging in the balance is nothing less than
democracy's
last hope to survive the technology revolution.
and the NLS annotation from BARD:
Daemon--the computer virus created by now-deceased mad genius Matthew
Sobol--continues to assassinate people, control the Internet, and amass
millions of followers. Meanwhile, civil war breaks out and a movement against
corporations emerges in the Midwest.
Finally, here's a bit more about the book from Publishers Weekly taken from
Amazon's page for this book.
Starred Review. Bestseller Suarez's sequel to Daemon (2009), in which the late,
mad-genius game designer Matthew Sobol launched a cyber war on humanity,
surpasses its smart, exciting predecessor. This concluding volume crackles with
electrifying action scenes and bristles with intriguing ideas about a
frightening, near-future world. Sobol's bots continue to roam the Internet,
inciting
mayhem and siphoning money from worldwide, interconnected megacorporations out
to seize control of national governments and enslave the populace. FBI special
agent Roy Merritt is dead, but still manages to make a dramatic comeback, while
detective Pete Sebeck, thought to be executed in Daemon, rises from the
supposed grave to lead the fight against the corporations. What the trademark
letters affixed to the title signify is anyone's guess. Those who haven't read
Daemon should read it first. The two books combined form the cyberthriller
against which all others will be measured.
Hoping for another good crowd next month to discuss this exciting and thought
provoking duology.
Evan
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