Kill Decision Mass Market Paperback Author: Visit Amazon's Daniel Suarez Page | Language: English | ISBN:
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"Perfectly blending nail-biting suspense with accessible science, bestseller Suarez establishes himself as a legitimate heir to Michael Crichton with this gripping present-day thriller."
--Publisher's Weekly (starred review) "A confident thriller that leaves us wondering not
whether its fictional premise will one day become reality, but
when."
--Kirkus Reviews on Kill Decision"
"A plausible account of how, and more importantly, why, the real 'skynet' might be created."
--Tim O'Reilly, founder and CEO of O'Reilly Media, Inc."
Kill Decision is a fantastic techno-thriller. As someone who has designed combat robots myself, I found the technology depicted both accurate and chilling."
--Alexander Rose, Roboticist & Executive Director of The Long Now Foundation"Suarez's fiction is closer to reality than most people think."
--Chris Anderson, Author & Editor-in-Chief, Wired Magazine
"For me, Suarez is the Jules Verne of the digital age." --Frank Schirrmacher, Author & Publisher of the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung (FAZ)
“A legitimate heir to Michael Crichton.”—Publishers Weekly (starred review)
“A terrifyingly real scenario.”—The Washington Post
“A confident thriller that leaves us wondering not whether its fictional premise will one day become reality, but when.”—Kirkus Reviews
“Kill Decision is an eyes-wide-open, eyebrows raised, head-shaking warning.”—Wired
From the Author
"In addition to being gripping thrillers that you can't put down, [Daniel Suarez's] books are all based on existing or near future technologies that make the stories amazingly scary and plausible." --A review on
Kill Decision --Joi Ito, Entrepreneur, VC & Director of MIT Media Lab See all Editorial Reviews
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- Mass Market Paperback: 512 pages
- Publisher: Signet; Reprint edition (August 6, 2013)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0451417704
- ISBN-13: 978-0451417701
- Product Dimensions: 7.3 x 4.2 x 1.1 inches
- Shipping Weight: 10.6 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
Daniel Suarez has done it again (Daemon, Freedom). He's written the tech thriller of the year.
He's managed to get his mind around the most complex and terrifying military technology of our time, DRONES, and turn it into a thriller that will keep on the edge of your seat.
What is a drone and why is it terrifying? It's a flying robot that can kill with precision. Drones are currently being used across the world from Pakistan to Yemen to the Philippines, to continuously watch and kill people. Already, thousands of people are being killed by drones each year, and that number will rapidly grow beyond everyone's expectations. Why? Moore's law. Drones are going to get very cheap and very smart much faster than anyone anticipates (in the same way cell phones and personal computers got cheap and powerful). That means they will be many, many more of them, used very often, in a plethora of places.
This is where Dan Suarez steps in. He takes this lethal technology and projects it forward in a way that feels right. Why? He (rightly) uses myrmecology (the study of ants, think E.O. Wilson's Sociobiology: The New Synthesis, Twenty-Fifth Anniversary Edition) as his pattern for the evolution of drone technology.
Daniel Suarez's first two novels, Daemon and Freedom (tm), turned me into a fan. Therefore, I was excited to learn of the publication of a new stand-alone thriller. I did not find Kill Decision to be as strong as Suarez's prior novels, but I'm still a fan. I can't help it; I'm a sucker for smart fiction.
This time around, Suarez is writing about the threat of autonomous drones being used by the military. After several opening scenes which illustrate the dangers of these devices, the story builds around a military man on a secret mission to investigate a series of drone attacks on U.S. soil and a scientist who gets caught up in the action. She researches ant behavior--but it seems that her pure research has other, darker applications. Now these two are teamed up with, well, a team. They need to stay alive, stop the drone attacks, and hopefully get the military to see that machines can't be trusted to make life or death decisions.
Now, that's a fairly sparse synopsis coming from me, and you may have noticed that I used no names. I didn't really see the point. The characters were so superficially drawn that I could barely remember who the supporting characters were, and the male and female protagonists were awfully generic as well. I have to admit that I had a very hard time caring about them or getting invested in their story. Plus, they all had ridiculous monikers like Odin, Mooch, and Foxy. (Or you'd have a character nicknamed Ripper interacting with a character named Ritter. Do you really need to make things that difficult, Mr. Suarez?)
And it wasn't merely the characters that had a generic feel about them; some of the dialogue was downright cringe-worthy. An example: at one point the lady scientist asks the military man why he's drawn to war.
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