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System Seven
A secret file is stolen by a member of an elite corps of hackers seeking high resell material. The theft triggers the response of a system of authority like none he's conceived, a system that wants the file back. Desperate, the hacker copies the file to an unsuspecting netadmin half a world away, drawing him into danger and the free fall of pursuit. Dodging the hammer throws of an enemy with unconfined power, convention quickly becomes liability... and the extraordinary becomes reality in a world gone strange.
From tiny villages in the Netherlands to the sprawling streets of Tokyo and L.A. to the innerscape of their own minds, danger and opportunity blend in an irresistible challenge: to end a cycle of injustice and imbalance begun long, long ago. What starts as the ultimate hack sets into play a chain reaction with dire global consequences.
System Seven is a story of technology, thoughts, dreams, and that which mysteriously binds them. It's about those in control and those under control, about the culture of belief and what happens when we are forced to challenge it. It introduces people living and breathing in a world cast as shallow yet with depths that reveal the fantastic.
From tiny villages in the Netherlands to the sprawling streets of Tokyo and L.A. to the innerscape of their own minds, danger and opportunity blend in an irresistible challenge: to end a cycle of injustice and imbalance begun long, long ago. What starts as the ultimate hack sets into play a chain reaction with dire global consequences.
System Seven is a story of technology, thoughts, dreams, and that which mysteriously binds them. It's about those in control and those under control, about the culture of belief and what happens when we are forced to challenge it. It introduces people living and breathing in a world cast as shallow yet with depths that reveal the fantastic.
582 pages, Paperback
First published December 25, 2012
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November 29, 2015
This book was a most welcome companion on my overseas trip this past summer to Edinburgh. Through three flights and many hours of layovers and delays, I wasn't the least bit concerned about the situation. I was lost in a world set in my hometown (SacTown!) that has always existed, but in deep cover with powerful people and beings pulling strings behind the scenes. This story is one of other-wordly elements, government, your government hard at work deluding the people and a brave few human beings who are aware, intelligent and motivated to find the truth, save some lives and get back to the important things in life - life, love and the pursuit of happiness. I highly recommend System Seven and am looking forward to the next book!
January 10, 2016
Oh, wow. This was ... incomparable. You know what The Matrix did to the movie scene? This book does that. The words surrounded me like Ian McDonald, the technology like a crazy fork of David Louis Edelman and the mental, reality-warping metanature of everything like something Greg Iles started on but didn't finish. It's a sprawlingly pervasive story with huge, perhaps infinite scope for future works, and an electrifyingly stunning way to see out the first week of a new year.
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