I can recommend 'Delta-V' by the same author too.
Daemon (2006)
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#13Such a great book. There should be a screen adaptation, keeping the story at the same time and technology level, I think it would be a hit.
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#14I can recommend 'Delta-V' by the same author too.
Delta-V was great, but I was disappointed by the bland characters and storytelling of it's sequel Critical Mass. It's easily Daniel Suarez's weakest novel.
The first of his books I read is "Kill Decision" which has more than held up in it's predictions of drone warfare and AI advancements. Based on the accuracy of his predictions from this book, and Daemon too, I'm bullish on space mining!
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#15There was a small thread about Daemon a few weeks ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46996474 Someone there mentioned never having heard of the sequel, so.. FYI, there's a sequel! It's called Freedom™[0]. It's very much one story split into two volumes, not "our heroes go on a new adventure". And as I said in that thread, for another great fictional portrayal of AI, see Person of Interest[1]; it starts as a cr…
Yes Person of Interest is great! It starts kinda slow as a fairly generic police procedural but gets really epic by the end.