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dsrtao_Daemon_, Daniel Suarez
Minor spoilers here. Go away if you are allergic to same.
It begins as a high-tech procedural, then becomes a high-tech espionage novel, then winds up as an action-movie novelization ending in an apocalyptic collapse of civilization. Each change of genre trashes some, but not all, of the assumptions the reader (or I, anyway) made in the preceding section.
A fairly enjoyable read, although almost no character has more than a few paragraphs of depth. Suarez has a better eye than most about what the laws of physics allow, and is pretty good about not extrapolating more than a few years down the road of likely technologies.
It's definitely SF, although it is not marketed as such. It would be interesting to run this against Stross's _Halting State_ on the one hand and Ryan's _The Adolescence of P-1_ on the other.
The ending... doesn't end, so much as note that there will be a sequel next year.
Minor spoilers here. Go away if you are allergic to same.
It begins as a high-tech procedural, then becomes a high-tech espionage novel, then winds up as an action-movie novelization ending in an apocalyptic collapse of civilization. Each change of genre trashes some, but not all, of the assumptions the reader (or I, anyway) made in the preceding section.
A fairly enjoyable read, although almost no character has more than a few paragraphs of depth. Suarez has a better eye than most about what the laws of physics allow, and is pretty good about not extrapolating more than a few years down the road of likely technologies.
It's definitely SF, although it is not marketed as such. It would be interesting to run this against Stross's _Halting State_ on the one hand and Ryan's _The Adolescence of P-1_ on the other.
The ending... doesn't end, so much as note that there will be a sequel next year.
