I keep coming back to Daniel Suarez' breakout novel. It feels so topical with the rise of agentic AI and I often wonder if when and when something like it could arise.
Scenes from this book have been regularly coming to mind for almost 20 years now. No idea how it holds up for new readers today but it left quite an impact way back then.
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 crime procedural with an AI-flavored twist, and ended up being considered by many critics the best sci-fi show on broadcast TV.
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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[ 4.1 ms ] story [ 45.0 ms ] threadSomeone 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 crime procedural with an AI-flavored twist, and ended up being considered by many critics the best sci-fi show on broadcast TV.
[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freedom%E2%84%A2
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Person_of_Interest_(TV_series)
His recent work is great too. Also I've met Dan a few times at Defcon and he's a really great and interesting guy.
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!