Picking up where Daemon left off, this continues the story of a daemon gone wild, this time trying to transform the world into something that many might say is a far sight more rational than the one we're currently living in.
So we have the adventure and suspense carried over from the prior novel, which is top-notch. The "tech" level implied here, though, is a lot more wishful thinking than plausible, so it no longer feels near-future, and more like 100 years out.
The world is next week, though. Which makes for a strange feeling.
Suarez clearly has done his future-world reading, though. (So have I, as it turns out.) He's got a bibliography at the end with a number of excellent future-thinking non-fiction books listed; all of the ones I had already read there are well-worth the read.
The reason that's important, though, is that Suarez has placed many of those concepts into the novel, portraying them as the intelligent response to the corporate overreach that we seem to be currently living through. I can't say I disagree, and it was nice to seem them there. It's also true that I imagine the only way to get there is by magical computer programs.
So the plausibility went down, but the thinkability went up. So: we're still at 5 of 5 stars. Recommended.
So we have the adventure and suspense carried over from the prior novel, which is top-notch. The "tech" level implied here, though, is a lot more wishful thinking than plausible, so it no longer feels near-future, and more like 100 years out.
The world is next week, though. Which makes for a strange feeling.
Suarez clearly has done his future-world reading, though. (So have I, as it turns out.) He's got a bibliography at the end with a number of excellent future-thinking non-fiction books listed; all of the ones I had already read there are well-worth the read.
The reason that's important, though, is that Suarez has placed many of those concepts into the novel, portraying them as the intelligent response to the corporate overreach that we seem to be currently living through. I can't say I disagree, and it was nice to seem them there. It's also true that I imagine the only way to get there is by magical computer programs.
So the plausibility went down, but the thinkability went up. So: we're still at 5 of 5 stars. Recommended.
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