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Review: Daemon (Daemon #1)

User Review  - Jim Crigler - Goodreads

Daemon One sentence summary: Daemon is what Tom Clancy might write if he read Slashdot.org every day. Phenomenally rich freakin' genius Matthew Sobol dies, but before he does, he infects the world's ... Read full review

Review: Daemon (Daemon #1)

User Review  - Rena McGee - Goodreads

With first novels, there is often a feeling of awkwardness. The writer hasn't quite found his or her voice yet, or hasn't fully realized the world in which the novel is set. (“Incompletely realized ... Read full review

Review: Daemon (Daemon #1)

User Review  - ba - Goodreads

Is 'Neal Stephenson' a genre? This book would probably fall into that classification, if so. The death of a high-tech mogul puts into effect his plan to infect the world's networks with a distributed ... Read full review

Review: Daemon (Daemon #1)

User Review  - Gwern - Goodreads

An unfriendly AI designed by a dead billionaire (who for some reason reminded me a little of an evil John Carmack) takes over the world. The overall combination is good but nothing to write home about ... Read full review

Review: Daemon (Daemon #1)

User Review  - Alper Çugun - Goodreads

This came highly recommended from some friends which makes it all the more unfortunate that it didn't live up to expectations. Daemon's merit is that the ideas in it serve a plot from the realm of sci ... Read full review

Review: Daemon (Daemon #1)

User Review  - Kemper - Goodreads

If you were someone with more computer knowledge and money than Bill Gates, and you found out you were dying, would you: A) Give all your money to charity just in case you can buy your way into heaven ... Read full review

Review: Daemon (Daemon #1)

User Review  - Mike - Goodreads

I learned that we used to fear supercomputers (cf. The Corbin Project) but now should fear superprogrammers and/or obsessive gamers. There's all kinds of pleasure one could take in chewing over the ... Read full review


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