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Fiction.
Science Fiction.
Suspense.
Thriller.
HTML:Daniel Suarezā??s New York Times bestselling debut high-tech thriller is ā??so frightening even the government has taken noteā? (Entertainment Weekly).
Daemons: computer programs that silently run in the background, waiting for a specific event or time to execute. They power almost every service. They make our networked world possible. But they also make it vulnerable...
When the obituary of legendary computer game architect Matthew Sobol appears online, a previously dormant daemon activates, initiating a chain of events that begins to unravel our interconnected world. This daemon reads news headlines, recruits human followers, and orders assassinations. With Sobolā??s secrets buried with him, and as new layers of his daemon are unleashed, itā??s up to Detective Peter Sebeck to stop a self-replicating virtual killer before it achieves its ultimate purposeā??one that goes far beyond anything Sebeck coul… (meer)
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daemon (dÄĀ“mÉn) n. ā A computer program that runs continuously in the background and performs specified operations at predefined times or in response to certain events. Condensed from āDisk And Execution MONitor.ā
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For Michelle. No more bedtime storiesā¦
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What the hell just happened?
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Apparently, people thought nothing of hanging their personal fortunes on technology they didn't understand. This would be their undoing.
Every day was filled with surprises. What a change from the network affiliate. Her new boss was an undead automaton from hell, true, but no job was perfect.
Anyone who has ever tried to share pizza with roommates knows that Communism cannot ever work. If Lenin and Marx had just shared an apartment, perhaps a hundred million lives might have been spared and put to productive use making sneakers and office furniture.
In all, his outfit required nearly two thousand man-years of research and development, eight barrels of oil, and sixteen patent and trademark infringement lawsuits. All so he could possess casual style. A style that, in logistical requirements, was comparable to fielding a nineteenth-century military brigade. But he looked good. Casual.
Mammals of every species indulge in play. Games are Nature's way of preparing us to face difficult realities.
But if they're so successful, why haven't parasites taken over the world? The answer is simple: they have. We just haven't noticed. That's because successful parasites don't kill us; they become part of us, making us perform all the work to keep them alive and help them reproduce.
You never understood games. Maybe that's why the world was such a mystery to you.
How can you expect to handle the future if you canāt even handle the present?
He was just an idea - a collection of responsibilities with a mailing address.
Look, letās not turn this into a blamestorming session. Thereāll be plenty of time for that if we fail.
Humanity had always trafficked in oppression. Before the corporate marketing department got ahold of it, it was called conquest. Now it was regional development. Vikings and Mongols were big on revenue targets, tooābut Leland had dispensed with all the tedious invading, and had taken a page out of the Roman playbook by hiring the locals to enslave each other as franchisees.
Great. So if a dragon and a fairy show up at the castle, what the hell am I supposed to do with that information? Put out a warrant for their arrest?
If not in San Francisco, then where? Not Madison, Wisconsin, again, please, dear God.
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Informatie afkomstig uit de Engelse Algemene Kennis.Bewerk om naar jouw taal over te brengen.
Fiction.
Science Fiction.
Suspense.
Thriller.
HTML:Daniel Suarezā??s New York Times bestselling debut high-tech thriller is ā??so frightening even the government has taken noteā? (Entertainment Weekly).
Daemons: computer programs that silently run in the background, waiting for a specific event or time to execute. They power almost every service. They make our networked world possible. But they also make it vulnerable...
When the obituary of legendary computer game architect Matthew Sobol appears online, a previously dormant daemon activates, initiating a chain of events that begins to unravel our interconnected world. This daemon reads news headlines, recruits human followers, and orders assassinations. With Sobolā??s secrets buried with him, and as new layers of his daemon are unleashed, itā??s up to Detective Peter Sebeck to stop a self-replicating virtual killer before it achieves its ultimate purposeā??one that goes far beyond anything Sebeck coul
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