Suarez, Daniel
Entry updated 15 July 2024. Tagged: Author.
(1964- ) US systems consultant and author who at least on one occasion has written as Leinad Zeraus (his own name backwards). The Daemon sequence, comprising Daemon (2006 as Zeraus; 2009) and Freedom™ (2010), presents in a Technothriller idiom a complex scenario in which a high-tech "demon" within a vast distributed Computer network begins to treat humans as disposable through acts of widespread violence. Its "motivation" for doing so is not explained in terms of computer technology, but as a long-meditated revenge on Homo sapiens consummated after the death of the programmer/Videogame-designer responsible. Kill Decision (2012), also a technothriller, is more conventional. In Influx (2014), a revolutionary development in Physics is threatened, again in the style of the technothriller; this book won a Prometheus Award.
The Libertarian SF philosophy is also strong in Delta-V (2019) and its sequel Critical Mass: A Novel (2023), in which commercially funded space exploration triumphs over Earth governments both naturally obstructive and hampered by climate change, to establish industry in orbit – including a solar power satellite (see Power Sources) – and a space-based currency (see Money) independent of terrestrial finance and taxation. Critical Mass won a further Prometheus Award. [JC]
Daniel Suarez
born Somerville, New Jersey: 21 December 1964
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series
Daemon
- Daemon (Los Angeles, California: Verdugo Press, 2006) as Leinad Zeraus [Daemon: pb/Anthony Ramondo]
- Daemon (New York: Dutton, 2009) [published under his own name: Daemon: hb/Anthony Ramondo]
- Freedom™ (New York: Dutton, 2010) [Daemon: hb/Anthony Ramondo]
Delta-V
- Delta-V (New York: Dutton, 2019) [Delta-V: hb/]
- Critical Mass: A Novel (New York: Dutton, 2023) [Delta-V: hb/]
individual titles
- Kill Decision (New York: Dutton, 2012) [hb/Richard Hasselberger]
- Influx (New York: Dutton, 2014) [hb/Tony Mauro]
- Change Agent (New York: Dutton, 2017) [hb/Jonathan Knowles, ESB Professional]
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