Freedom is the just released sequel to Daniel Suarez’s Daemon. Given how much I enjoyed the author’s debut novel the expectations were tremendously high. After an automated software task co-opts much of the world’s wealth and information infrastructure, how much more could there be to say?
Turns out there’s more. Much, much meme-creating more.
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Descriptions of Daniel Suarez’s Daemon might remind you of Charles Stross’s novel, Halting State. Both start with a misbehaving MMORPG. Both have autonomous software agents wielding influence in the physical world. Both have broken protagonists fighting not only to keep the virtual world at bay but their own shadowy pasts.
The difference is that Daemon does it terrifyingly, realistically, fabulously *better*.
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What happens to journalism when papers are no longer around? What happens to a culture that empowers those already swimming in abundance? How would an American squatter adhocracy function? Where does a preoccupation with superficial beauty end? Cory Doctorow knows.
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