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[kjudgemental]

Daemon - Thriller Novel Review

New review for a thriller novel, just in case you wanted to check it out. You know, as you do.

Author: Daniel Suarez Publisher: Quercus Country: UK (my copy) Year: 2010 (orig 2006) Normally, high-tech cyber thrillers are set in the future, in order to fully take advantage of the strange, sci-fi stuff they’re discussing. The most obvious case for this would be the original run of cyberpunk stories from William Gibson, Bruce Sterling, and that original pack of cyberpunks, which had their…

[sierrazzz]

INTRODUCTION ദ്ദി(ᵔᗜᵔ)

My name is Sierra!

I'm 16 (4/21/09)

I am Transfemme, and I use She/Her Pronouns I LOVE SCOTT PILGRIM IT'S MY FAVORITE THING EVER Fav Character: Lisa Miller ❤ (I love all of them really (Except Gideon)) Main Interests: Scott Pilgrim Daemon (Book series by Daniel Suarez) Night In The Woods Cyberpunk 2077 The Last Of Us Cars (one of my dream jobs is to be a mechanic) Current game i'm playing: None atm I'll probably post some of my art here DMs aren't open unless we are moots Go follow my cousin @cosmic0ak they're so cool ❤ credit to @gelarshiesprofruitboarder for the pfp

pretty much it rn

[valkyrjuk]

more like mpreg video file

[protography0]

"Who's The Giant?" (The Oldest View/Who's Lila Crossover Mockup)

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Digital Collage made in GIMP with screenshots from The Oldest View by Kane Pixels and a photo of the Julien Reverchon Giant made by Kevin Obregon, in the dithering color palette and style (and using some dialogue from) the videogame "Who's Lila?" by Garage Heathen. A crossover fanart of both pieces of media, if you will. The font is Dogica Pixel.

Additional thoughts below the cut:

This happens when I make fanart for multiple pieces of media and a) I start thinking about using the artstyle of one for the other and b) there are actually some similarities that are fun to explore. Hence, this piece.

I like how both pieces of media include themes of remembering/forgetting, and about attention, though in different ways.

Fun fact I learned - first crop the image, then use the dither filter on the final piece, not the other way around. I actually have a version of this piece in a larger size, but the crop made it look pretty bad, so I uploaded a specifically-made smaller one to avoid that issue.

(Also because I am not sure how well it shows up, the little rectangle in the lower right corner is Wyatt's phone.)

(Additionally. Fun fact - I originally planned to have Wyatt be the right-side portrait but I sadly haven't been able to make that happen with the footage from the webseries.)

(3rd addition: Who’s Lila features a Daemon and apparently, Arby from the tv-series 'Utopia' as a model for an FBI agent. Stuff that Kane Pixels has also expressed interest in (Daemon by Daniel Suarez, the tv show Utopia).)

[mostcreativetitle]

Week 1 / Day 5 - Couch to 80k

To be a good writer, you first need to read plenty! Here is a list of books I would like to read, as research for my novel which includes space travel, artificial intelligence and the meaning of being human.

Fiction

Klara and the Sun by Kazuo Ishiguro

The Verifiersby Jane Pek

Neuromancer by William Gibson

Machines Like Me by Ian McEwan

Daemon by Daniel Suarez

The Mother Code by Carole Stivers

Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? by Philip K. Dick

Hyperion by Dan Simmons

Robopocalypse by Daniel H. Wilson

Speak by Louisa Hall

House of Suns by Alastair Reynolds

Non-fiction

Human Enhancement by Julian Savulescu (Editor), Nick Bostrom

Making Sense: Conversations on Consciousness, Morality and the Future of Humanity by Sam Harris

A World Without Work By Daniel Susskind

Genius Makers By Cade Metz

The Alignment Problem By Brian Christian

Four Futures By Peter Frase

[queer-as-used-by-tolkien]

Had an epiphany while reading Daemon by Daniel Suarez.

As a writer, I strongly admire the characterization of a character introduced as "Agent Roy "Tripwire" Merritt." He's given a squad and a nickname that both get annihilated in his first scene were he almost dies. There's maybe four lines of dialogue - short lines - between Merritt and (one of) his teammates with a nigh-unpronounceable name (Wauchuer or smth) that Merritt shortens/nicknames to Wack. Wack has a sense of humor (except for one moment when it's serious) and no other characterization. None of the other squad-members are referred to, by name or anything else, but IIRC there are six of them. They are to enter a highly booby-trapped house that has stumped local police as well as FBI. Merritt and his team have done incredibly complex missions overseas and Merritt feels that there must have been some oversight to get his squad assigned here.

They are ordered to retreat suddenly, but before they can, he loses his team on the front lawn and comes near to death himself. When he realizes that he has survived, he also realizes that he'll get to see his daughters grow up. Then he realizes his team is gone and he goes berserk, entering the house in a rage. In pursuit of his task, he remains levelheaded under pressure and gets further into the house than anyone had before - alone - and showing great resourcefulness, meanwhile screaming at the AI that killed his men. When the house begins to self-destruct he high-tails it out of there.

Merritt does survive by the skin of his teeth. (His courage and determination make him a hero, even to the enemy side.)

After he has recovered from his injuries, months later, the narrative introduces him as Agent Roy Merritt, dressed up in a fancy suit for a trial hearing and moving slow and dignified. It feels like a stark contrast to his earlier reckless, emotionally-charged demeanor and behavior. He has been changed by his experiences and his injuries. A few sentences later, now inside Merritt's head, the narrative repeats "Agent Roy Merritt... Nobody called him Tripwire anymore. The men who had were all dead."

Sucker punch to the gut. I did not know these men or their names but I FEEL Merritt's pain.

He is honest in his trail hearing: he went into the house despite orders. They give him an out (trying to escape the horror on the lawn) but he doesn't take it. He is released from service and he goes outside to contemplate his life. He only wanted to serve his country.

Fast-forward to later. Merritt is still all business, but he does have his drive, resourcefulness, motivation, etc. He defies orders (again) because there is a mass murderer lose on the streets. The enemy is in awe and respects his grit and levelheadedness, and when Merritt takes his helmet off the enemy rejoices - he's facing off against the legendary Roy Merritt. He delightedly promises not to kill Merritt if he can have Merritt's autograph.

Just then, Merritt is shot in the back by a two-faced DOD agent, the highest-ranking allied character, so high-ranking that his name isn't available to any character in the book at any time.

Merritt is still alive, but he's crawling across the pavement to get to his jacket (which had fallen off at some point), leaving a thick trail of blood. The DOD agent, who had expected the enemy to finish Merritt off, sits in bewilderment for a moment while Merritt retrieves his jacket and is holding two pieces of paper.

The enemy meanwhile is howling in rage at the DOD agent (who is sniping from a helicopter), pounding the nearest available surface in rage. (The enemy knows this is not someone on his team, meaning he must be on Merritt's team, meaning he KNOWS Merritt just got shot in the back BY AN ALLY.)

The DOD agent gets tired of waiting on the enemy to finish Merritt off and shoots him in the head, then flies away.

Merritt goes limp and the pieces of paper he was holding are revealed to be two photographs.

SUCKER PUNCH TO THE GUT AGAIN.

Merritt has three scenes, maybe four, in this whole book. I don't know the names of his team, his family, or much about his personal background (and let me tell you, this book LOVES names and infodumping backstory). But his losses hit me harder than anyone else's.

In this last scene it is clearly able to be inferred that these are photographs of his family; wife and daughters, presumably; that he knew he was about to die and wanted to spend his last moments looking at them.

Of his squad, we can infer how much Merritt cared about them from his brief interactions with his buddy Wack, the way nicknames are used, the way Merritt reacts to their deaths.

It's all up to inference. It's all up to what we weren't told directly. It's left up to us to fill in the gaps and imagine.

This reminds me of an earlier post about GW2's Trahearne - how his character is so incredibly powerful because we are told 'he was lonely for 25 years' but there is little to no further explanation of what his life was like before, while the storyline is about him finally finding a place in the world and finding people who care about him. We don't need to know the details of his 25 years of loneliness because we fill in the blanks ourselves. And this makes his character many times more powerful than it would've been if we knew the details.

Give me a minute while I process this into some useful writing advice. (you really do need to read a lot to write)

[sneaky-tank]

Mmmmmmm yesssssssss I gotta work on LIPC tech! Wanna smite things with but a gesture!

(This is an obscure Daemon/Freedom TM reference, read them, you'll absolutely love them tumblr I promise)

[mobpublib]

Out of This World Book Club

This scifi/fantasy book club meets over Skype--so you don’t even have to change out of your pajamas.

Our schedule for the first half of 2018 is (times are CST):

January 20, 2018 @ 10:00am The Explorer's Guild: volume one; A passage to Shambhala by Jon Baird February 17, 2018 @ 10:00am Waypoint Kangaroo by Curtis C. Chen March 31, 2018 @ 10:00am An Alchemy of Masques and Mirrors by Curtis Craddock April 28, 2018 @ 10:00am Daemon by Daniel Suarez May 26, 2018 @ 10:00am Ink and Bone by Rachel Caine June 23, 2018 @ 10:00am Planetfall by Emma Newman

If you’d like to participate email jstewart@mplonline.org or call (251)470-7770 and ask for Jill.

[writingquestionsanswered]

do you have any reccs for dystopian-rebellion type books? id like to make one of my own but i want to see how others have done it first

Dystopian Rebellion Books

I'm happy to give book recommendations, but as much as I love to read, I haven't read all the books. Like everyone else, I have my go-to categories and genres, so it's not always easy for me to recommend a long list of books in any particular genre.

I haven't read a lot of dystopian books with actual rebellions. The Hunger Games and Divergent series are the ones that come to mind. (There are loads of other YA examples... Just Google YA dystopian rebellion for lists.) I guess Animal Farm would qualify. The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood has an underground resistance. 1984 has a failed resistance. All three of those are really good, though it's been decades since I read Orwell. Some adult options I haven't read so can't personally recommend, but may be worth checking out: The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress by Robert Heinlein, The Shockwave Rider by John Brunner, Daemon by Daniel Suarez, The Secondborn Series by Amy Bartol, Vox by Christina Dalcher, Gather The Daughters by Jennie Melamed, The Children of Men by P.D. James, Machinehood by S.B. Divya, Crosshairs by Catherine Hernandez, The Resisters by Gish Jen, Red Rising by Pierce Brown.

Watch the comments, too, as there may be recommendations from other members of the WQA community. :)

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[kenpxchi]

* 𝙿𝙴𝙾𝙿𝙻𝙴  𝙸'𝙳  𝙻𝙸𝙺𝙴  𝚃𝙾  𝙶𝙴𝚃  𝚃𝙾  𝙺𝙽𝙾𝚆  𝙱𝙴𝚃𝚃𝙴𝚁.

𝟎𝟏 .    𝐀𝐋𝐈𝐀𝐒  /  𝐍𝐀𝐌𝐄  •   todd.

𝟎𝟐 .    𝐁𝐈𝐑𝐓𝐇𝐃𝐀𝐘  •     9/13.

𝟎𝟑 .    𝐙𝐎𝐃𝐈𝐀𝐂  𝐒𝐈𝐆𝐍  •     virgo.

𝟎𝟒 .    𝐇𝐄𝐈𝐆𝐇𝐓  •     6′2″/188 cm.

𝟎𝟓 .    𝐇𝐎𝐁𝐁𝐈𝐄𝐒  •     shitposting, video games, pretending to be fictional characters.

𝟎𝟔 .    𝐅𝐀𝐕𝐎𝐔𝐑𝐈𝐓𝐄  𝐂𝐎𝐋𝐎𝐔𝐑  •   green.

𝟎𝟕 .    𝐅𝐀𝐕𝐎𝐔𝐑𝐈𝐓𝐄  𝐁𝐎𝐎𝐊  •     the daemon - daniel suarez.

𝟎𝟖 .    𝐋𝐀𝐒𝐓  𝐒𝐎𝐍𝐆  •    bury the light - casey edwards & victor borba.

𝟎𝟗 .    𝐋𝐀𝐒𝐓  𝐅𝐈𝐋𝐌  /  𝐒𝐇𝐎𝐖  •    psych.

𝟏𝟎 .    𝐈𝐍𝐒𝐏𝐈𝐑𝐀𝐓𝐈𝐎𝐍  •    whatever my latest hyperfixation is.

𝟏𝟏 .    𝐒𝐓𝐎𝐑𝐘  𝐁𝐄𝐇𝐈𝐍𝐃  𝐔𝐑𝐋  •   its his fuckin name.

tagged by: @senboago​

tagging: you take it, i’m lazy.

[sierrazzz]

Guys pleaze has anyone else here read Daemon and Freedom by Daniel Suarez? I want more people who talk about it, theres like 20 people on the entire internet who talk about it

[mironart]

‘Third Eye’ “Gragg felt the tingling of the Third Eye on his stomach and back. The Third Eye was another of the miracles that Sobol had bestowed upon him. It was a form-fitting conductive shirt worn next to the skin—but it wasn’t a Gragg felt the tingling of the Third Eye on his stomach and back. The Third Eye was another of the miracles that Sobol had bestowed upon him. It was a form-fitting conductive shirt worn next to the skin—but it wasn’t a garment. It was a haptic device that helped him use his body’s largest organ—his skin—as another, all-seeing eye. An eye that never blinked, and an eye that could see around him in 360 degrees or halfway around the world, if he wished. It worked by sending tiny electrical impulses to excite the nerve endings in his skin, much like a computer monitor projected pixels onto a screen. The microscopic electrical impulses represented data—from blips on a radar screen to full-blown visual displays. But what amazed Gragg was how the brain learned to accept input from this new source as if it were just another organ. Just another eye.” From ‘Daemon,’ by Daniel Suarez. Published by Dutton in 2009. 

Software: Artbreeder, DeepStyle, Ebsynth, Premiere, Photoshop.

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Music by Aphex Tein - 7 ∂ƒ∆ [rough mix]

[2outherngemiinii]

8 people id like to know better

@wetclouds tagged me!

ONE / name / alias - no lie i go by a TON of names, my family call me either charlie or harry, which i don’t mind since i really don’t like my given name i personally prefer going by josie when being addressed by people outside my family, i also go by my urls from time to time

TWO / birthday - may 24th, i’m a spring child little ol may flower

THREE / zodiac sign - gemiinii !!

FOUR / height - 5 ft 8 i’m like average height

FIVE / hobbies - i used to shiny hunt back when i had more time, nowadays i love working on gundam model kits and i’ve even gotten back into yugioh but like duel links ygo cause i don’t want to go broke collecting cards

SIX / favorite colors - purple!

SEVEN / favorite books - Daemon by Daniel Suarez is a great one, and EPIC by Connor Kostick is like ready player one but actually good

EIGHT / last song i listened to - REDLINE DAY feat. Rob Laufer by James Shimoji from the REDLINE ost, it’s soooo feel good yoooo

NINE / last film i watched - REDLINE haha

TEN / inspiration for muse - cityscapes and interesting architecture get me feeling some type of way

ELEVEN / dream job - i would loove to own my own like board game and card shop

TWELVE / meaning behind your url - it refers to where i live my zodiac sign and sollux’s typing quirk, i came up with it like waaay back when i first got into homestuck

i tag @twig---verginix @chalulupa @chaoticharbinger @silversongmonster @neighborlyarson @ichorandpride @pklevelofviolence and @archbishop-oates

[sneaky-tank]

Trying to teach Tumblr to show me stuff related to Daemon, Freedom TM and other cool stuff.

Wish me luck

Bios

neu im #Blog: Bios - ein Tech-Thriller von Daniel Suarez 🧬🔬

von Daniel Suarez. Das Wild, das du jagst: Du bist es selbstIm Jahr 2045 ist das Zeitalter der biologischen Moderne angebrochen. Algen und Pilze bauen Autogehäuse, die Städte werden nachts von Leuchtbäumen erhellt. Auch vor dem menschlichen Körper macht diese Revolution nicht halt. Jeder will Designer-Babies, ob legal oder nicht. Die Zeche zahlen andere.Kenneth Durand leitet bei Interpol den…

[charliemcarthy]

What are your favorite books about ai? I think we have similar tastes lol

Well, The Municipalistsby Seth Fried absolutely blasted itself to first place on my shelves. It’s the type of book that makes you want a sequel even if you know you won’t get one ever. If you only have time to read one book on this list, please pick this one. It’s a short read, bc of style and actual length.

When HARLIE was One by David Gerrold ties with my top fav, I kinda prefer the revised version from 88. (Actually this book is one of the few who had to get replaced after the pages fell apart from travel/life/me being a kid who loved books more than people.)

Neuromancer by William Gibson is a a fav from high school me’s bookshelf. I’ve read it a bunch but haven’t picked it up since the 11th grade, but it’s on the shelf and on this list because of nostalgia points.

The entire I, Robot series by Asimov! This is more common, also I think Gold is my favorite collection, it even went to college with me lol.

Daemon (and its follow up Freedom) by Daniel Suarez gets honorable mention, even if I can’t find my copies…that’s a sign they got borrowed, weh.

[ersatzpersonae]

They had already worked together closely in the War on Terror and the War on Drugs, and they stood ready to combat any other noun that caused trouble.

Daniel Suarez, "Daemon"