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Freedom (TM) by Daniel Suarez
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Freedom (TM) (original 2010; edition 2010)

by Daniel Suarez

Series: Daemon (2)

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Fiction. Science Fiction. Thriller. HTML:The propulsive, shockingly plausible sequel to New York Times bestseller Daemon.
In one of the most buzzed-about debuts, Daniel Suarez introduced a terrifying vision of a new world order, controlled by the Daemon, an insidious computer program unleashed by a hi-tech wunderkind, Daemon captured the attention of the tech community, became a New York Times and Indie bestseller, and left readers hungry for more.
Well, more is here, and it's even more gripping than its predecessor. In the opening chapters of Freedom(tm), the Daemon is firmly in control, using an expanded network of real-world, dispossessed darknet operatives to tear apart civilization and rebuild it anew. Soon civil war breaks out in the American Midwest, in a brutal wave of violence that becomes known as the Corn Rebellion. Former detective Pete Sebeck, now the Daemon's most powerfulâ??though reluctantâ??operative, must lead a small band of enlightened humans toward a populist movement designed to protect the new world order. But the private armies of global business are preparing to crush the Daemon once and for all.
In a world of conflicted loyalties, rapidly diminishing human power, and the possibility that anyone can be a spy, what's at stake is nothing less than human freedom's last hope to survive the technology revol
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Title:Freedom (TM)
Authors:Daniel Suarez
Info:Dutton Adult (2010), Hardcover, 416 pages
Collections:Your library, Read but unowned
Rating:***
Tags:armageddon, computers, intelligence, software, sci-fi, distopian

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Geeky, high-energy fun. ( )
  jbaty | Dec 29, 2023 |
I think this one was better than the first book (The Daemon). First, it explores more deeply some societal problems we face globally. Second, there is some pretty cool tech which would be difficult to create but definitely possible.

Very entertaining and solid ending. ( )
  lieblbiz | Aug 30, 2023 |
Not a bad book, just had a hard act to follow after the very good [b:Daemon|4699575|Daemon (Daemon, #1)|Daniel Suarez|http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1255801429s/4699575.jpg|4763873]. It's very much a sequel. In fact, the most awkward parts of the whole novel are the few little filler bits that try and explain just what happened in the first novel. Don't read this one without reading Daemon first, or both will suffer.

There are some interesting new bits as the authour tries to explore just what inhabiting his new world would be like, but for some reason it didn't ring that true to me. Weird, since the whole series takes a healthy dose of suspension of belief to really enjoy, but that's the way it felt.

If you enjoyed the first novel, this one is a must read. If the first novel didn't really turn your crank, skip this one, you'll like it even less. ( )
  furicle | Aug 5, 2023 |
Daniel Suarez takes the egalitarian utopia fantasy of the Flower Power generation and repackages it as a sadistic revolutionary wet dream in this sequel to "Daemon" which pits slackers against plutocrats while a string of computer code calls the shots. How much you enjoy this story depends on how much you're willing to swallow, so here's a little quiz: do you believe that all things blue collar working class are GOOD and all things white collar corporate are BAD? Are you willing to accept ludicrous narrative gimmicks like scimitar-wielding ninja motorcycles and villains so cartoonish they should be twirling their (virtual) moustaches? Do you believe "the end justifies the means" no matter what? Was chairman Mao just a poor misunderstood visionary? If you answered "yes" to any of the above then give it a shot. Personally my head still hurts from all the eye-rolling. ( )
  NurseBob | Nov 15, 2022 |
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Behind the ostensible government sits enthroned an invisible government owing no allegiance and acknowledging no responsibility to the people. To destroy this invisible government, to befoul the unholy alliance between corrupt business and corrupt politics is the first task of the statesmanship of the day. -- Theodore Roosevelt in 1906
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For Generation Y
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An elderly man emerged from the crowd an aimed a revolver straight at Anthony Hollis's face.
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Wealth aggregates and becomes political power. Simple as that. ‘Corporation’ is just the most recent name for it. In the Middle Ages it was the Catholic Church. They had a great logo, too. You might have seen it, and they had more branches than Starbucks. Go back before that, and it was Imperial Rome. It’s a natural process as old as humanity.
Democracy requires active participation, and sooner or later someone ‘offers’ to take all the difficult decision-making away from you and your hectic life. But the darknet throws those decisions back onto you. It hard-codes democracy into the DNA of civilization. You upvote and downvote many times a day on things that directly affect your life and the lives of people around you—not just once every few years on things you haven’t got a chance in hell of affecting.
When people become more reliant on multinational corporations than on their own communities, they surrendered whatever say they had in their government. Corporations are growing stronger while democratic government becomes increasingly helpless.
Instead of adapting, their leaders clung to power and strove instead to be the last ones to starve to death. The Mayan civilization in South America did the same, and I expect our own civilization will do likewise.
They made a simple enough mistake. The same one we’re making. They founded their society on resource extraction, and in doing so, inflated their population beyond the carrying capacity of the land.
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Fiction. Science Fiction. Thriller. HTML:The propulsive, shockingly plausible sequel to New York Times bestseller Daemon.
In one of the most buzzed-about debuts, Daniel Suarez introduced a terrifying vision of a new world order, controlled by the Daemon, an insidious computer program unleashed by a hi-tech wunderkind, Daemon captured the attention of the tech community, became a New York Times and Indie bestseller, and left readers hungry for more.
Well, more is here, and it's even more gripping than its predecessor. In the opening chapters of Freedom(tm), the Daemon is firmly in control, using an expanded network of real-world, dispossessed darknet operatives to tear apart civilization and rebuild it anew. Soon civil war breaks out in the American Midwest, in a brutal wave of violence that becomes known as the Corn Rebellion. Former detective Pete Sebeck, now the Daemon's most powerfulâ??though reluctantâ??operative, must lead a small band of enlightened humans toward a populist movement designed to protect the new world order. But the private armies of global business are preparing to crush the Daemon once and for all.
In a world of conflicted loyalties, rapidly diminishing human power, and the possibility that anyone can be a spy, what's at stake is nothing less than human freedom's last hope to survive the technology revol

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