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In the beginning this book reminded me of This is Not a Game but eventually I was able to settle in an enjoy it for its own sake.
The premise is that a brilliant computer programmer and game designer creates a daemon to run after his death that basically aims to destroy the current world order and create a new one. It's a fun premise, though I'm beginning to think I need a new shelf for books where computers are used to kill/take over the world/frame people for murder.
It was an enjoyable read al ...more
The premise is that a brilliant computer programmer and game designer creates a daemon to run after his death that basically aims to destroy the current world order and create a new one. It's a fun premise, though I'm beginning to think I need a new shelf for books where computers are used to kill/take over the world/frame people for murder.
It was an enjoyable read al ...more
It's never a good sign when you start rewriting a book in your head...and you're only on the first page.
Why did I continue? An intriguing premise, especially to an old internet nerd. Daemon got a little better as it went, only to delve deeper into shabby writing tricks, such as dialogue between two groups of people, but only referring to them by group name instead of individual character names. This is not a play -- tell me the names of your characters, let me feel for them, get a sense of who ...more
Why did I continue? An intriguing premise, especially to an old internet nerd. Daemon got a little better as it went, only to delve deeper into shabby writing tricks, such as dialogue between two groups of people, but only referring to them by group name instead of individual character names. This is not a play -- tell me the names of your characters, let me feel for them, get a sense of who ...more
Technically excellent ideas, with a clever change of scale and some good surprises. Shame that the "sequel" (Freedom TM) is more of an "ending", but I don't feel that disappointed - it became quite obvious that there were loose ends which weren't going to be tied off.
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At first, I wasn't terribly impressed. The characters weren't especially likable and the bad guy was repeatedly described as evil, which I find boring. However, the characters had depth and grew on me, the bad guy had depth, and there were a lot of changing alliances, which I love. It reminded me in the beginning of Pandora's Star, but got better not worse. It also reminded me a bit of the plot in Starcraft with all the changing alliances. It could be also called a less nihilist, sexist, violent
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Really well written book. I highly recommend this book to fans of William Gibson's work.
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Checked out from local library. Pretty good story, cool premise. Got a little tedious through the middle, and probably even more tedious if you don't play video games, but the fate of the spammers makes up for it so hang in there. I'd like to see it made into a movie!
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Feb 26, 2009
Amy
marked it as to-read-fantasy-sci-fi
Mar 30, 2010
Kelekolio Malakina
marked it as to-read
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