[real-eyes] A few book ideas for your summer reading
- From: blindbites <blindbites@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: nutkc@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, real-eyes@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Wed, 27 Jun 2012 21:31:11 -0500
Hi,
Here's something to do on these hot days of summer. These are books that
are tech related and a thrill to read.
These 3 books are currently available for download via BARD.
1.
Zero Day
Russinovich, Mark. Read by Ray Childs. Reading time 12 hours 7 minutes.
Suspense
After an airplane's computer fails in mid-flight, a cascade of
catastrophic events occur around the world. Former government analyst
Jeff Aiken fears these cyberterrorism attacks are just the beginning.
Some strong language and some explicit descriptions of sex. 2011.
Zero Day, DB73939
2.
Daemon
Suarez, Daniel. Read by John Polk. Reading time 18 hours 6 minutes.
Suspense
Thousand Oaks, California. A computer-game designer's death launches a
powerful program that wreaks havoc on CyberStorm Entertainment. After a
few deadly mechanical accidents occur on the company's grounds, lead
detective Peter Sebeck races to prevent further destruction and save
lives. Violence, strong language, and some descriptions of sex. 2009.
Daemon, DB68916
3.
Freedom (TM)
Suarez, Daniel. Read by John Polk. Reading time 13 hours 43 minutes.
Suspense
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. Sequel to Daemon (RC
68916). Violence, some strong language, and some descriptions of sex. 2010.
Freedom (TM), DB71118
I've read all three of these books and they are excellent. Both authors
have books soon to be released. Mark Russinovich has a new book
scheduled to be released in September called "Trojan Horse: " here's a
brief description.
Publication Date: September 4, 2012
It’s two years post-Zero Day, and former government analyst Jeff Aiken
is reaping the rewards for crippling al-Qaida’s attack on the computer
infrastructure of the Western world. His cyber - security company is
flourishing, and his relationship with Daryl Haugen intensifies when she
becomes a part of his team.
But the West is under the East’s greatest threat yet. The Stuxnet virus
that successfully subverted Iran’s nuclear defense program for years is
being rapidly identified and defeated, and Stuxnet’s creators are
stressed to develop a successor. As Jeff and Daryl struggle to stay
together, they’re summoned to disarm the attack of a revolutionary,
invisible trojan that alters data without leaving a trace. As the
trojan penetrates Western intelligence, the terrifying truth about Iran
is revealed, and Jeff and Daryl find themselves running a desperate race
against time to reverse it - while the fate of both East and West hangs
in the balance.
Like Zero Day, Trojan Horse is a thrilling suspense story, a sober
warning from one of the world’s leading experts on cyber-security,
Microsoft’s Technology Fellow, Mark Russinovich. Trojan Horse
demystifies the dangerously realistic threat of a cyber-terrorism attack
on the Western world, while chronicling the lengths through which one
man and will go to stop it.
The new book from Daniel Suarez, "Kill Decision"
Publication Date: July 19, 2012
The shocking techno-thriller that cements Daniel Suarez’s status as the
heir to Michael Crichton and Tom Clancy—a terrifying, breathtaking, and
all-too-plausible vision of the world’s near future.
Unmanned weaponized drones already exist—they’re widely used by America
in our war efforts in the Middle East. In Kill Decision, bestselling
author Daniel Suarez takes that fact and the real science behind it one
step further, with frightening results.
Linda McKinney is a myrmecologist, a scientist who studies the social
structure of ants. Her academic career has left her entirely unprepared
for the day her sophisticated research is conscripted by unknown forces
to help run an unmanned—and thanks to her research, automated—drone
army. Odin is the secretive Special Ops soldier with a unique insight
into the faceless enemy who has begun to attack the American homeland
with drones programmed to seek, identify, and execute targets without
human intervention.
Together, McKinney and Odin must slow this advance long enough for the
world to recognize its destructive power, because for thousands of years
the “kill decision” during battle has remained in the hands of
humans—and off-loading that responsibility to machines will bring
unintended, possibly irreversible, consequences. But as forces even
McKinney and Odin don’t understand begin to gather, and death rains down
from above, it may already be too late to save humankind from
destruction at the hands of our own technology.
As of today, these two new books are only available in an electronic
format via kindle and text to speech is enabled for both books. It
should be just a matter of time before they are available from Bard and
other sources.
Happy reading,
Steve
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