Review: Daemon (Daemon #1)
User Review - Jim Crigler - GoodreadsDaemon 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 - GoodreadsWith 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 - GoodreadsIs '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 - GoodreadsAn 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 - GoodreadsThis 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 - GoodreadsIf 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 - GoodreadsI 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