Influx

The Daniel Suarez book Daemon is one of my all time favorite reads. All his books are good read them in order of release is my advice.

Initially, the premise seemed a little odd. The beginning also seemed to lock the book in a specific direction.However, rest assured, Daniel Suarez is a knowledgeable author who is good at building and carrying a story.If you are interest in sci-fi informed by current possibilities coupled with a good story, Daniel Suarez is a great choice.He actually knows things. What other authors understand vi vs. Emacs?

Influx is a book for teenagers, that is ... for everyone. Everyone will find something for themselves. Comic outline characters clearly defines who is on the side of good, and who is on the side of evil. There are not many adults dilemmas, and if they are, it's exaggerated. However, this does not diminish the value of the book. Influx is a cool page-turner, with a surprising plot twist and a little too banal ending. The book reminds me of the technological Count of Monte Cristo.

This was the last of Daniel Suarez' current books and I just finished reading them all. Influx was a wonderfully innovative, compelling, and plausible page turner. It's also scary as hell in a sociopolitical and technological sense. The characters are real, and Suarez makes you care/admire/loathe them. This is a wonderful read, my only complaint is that I've run out of his Influx  books until the next one is published. Hmmm, think I'll start them over in chronological order...

Daniel Suarez has again penned a thought-provoking novel about how society will use or abuse new, game-changing technologies. A Prometheus Award winner, Mr. Suarez is one of the brightest tech minds writing today. In INFLUX, a secretive governmental agency harnesses disruptive new technologies by kidnapping the inventors and hiding their work. But, of course, the agency head has become demented, and the scientists are abused and need to escape. Like all of his other novels, the action is fast-paced and grounded in newly breaking technology. I highly recommend them all.

Great read. Love the premise that many of the revolutionary technologies we are looking forward to have in fact already been invented and are being surpressed.

Very interesting, fast paced.

I love Daniel Suarez books and this one has a good mix of tech and character interaction bnut I do agree with some of the reviewers that the last few chapters were a bit forced. But still entertaining.

Not a bad story, but I prefer Suarez's other titles a such as the Daemon series and Kill Decision.Even though his books are all near-future fictions, the main premise in this one seemed less plausible for some reason, so I had a harder time 'suspending disbelief" compared to his others which could easily be present-day given the right circumstances.Having said that, I own all his books and will buy future ones without hesitation.Great author, recommended.

Leider sein bisher schwächster Titel.Für Terminator-Fans eine Leseempfehlung, für Kenner von Daemon, oder Kill Decision eine klare Absage: Hier betritt der Autor sichtlich Neuland, die Geschichte erscheint eher für den Film-Markt konzipiert zu sein, die schwarz/weiß Gestaltung der Charaktere und die oberflächliche Behandlung der zugrundeliegenden Technologien mutet zumindest so an.

Die Bücher von Suarez lese ich gefühlt immer an 1-3 Nachmittagen durch. Gegen Ende wird es mit meist zu "hollywood-lastig", aber das kann ich dank der inspririerenden Stories gern verschmerzen. Bin gespannt auf das nächste Buch.

Kurzweilig zu lesen, aber die Geschichte ist schon etwas an den Haaren herbeigezogen.

ITコンサルタント出身の作者、ダニエル・スアレス。ジャンルは テクノ・スリラー。まだ見ぬテクノロジーを扱いながら、なぞかけや事件要素があるスリラーをかけ合わせたジャンル。本作『 flux 』のテーマは 【 反重力 / gravity mirror 】。主人公は、任意の範囲で重力を逆さにできる装置の大発明をします。そしてこれを巡る事件簿。なにせ重力が逆さになる理屈を追うだけでも難しいのですが、それ以外にも反重力にまつわる色々なテクノロジーがわんさかと登場。そして、それらテクノロジーを使いこなす、超人的な登場人物たち...浮世離れした話のどこに取り付く島があるのか、ムズカシイかったです。天才たちの世界...でした。ただ、満足に読み終えたのには理由があります。それは作者ダニエル・スアレス自身が世に出している作品に通底するテーマに共感をしているから。共通するテーマはなにかというと、"人間らしさ(humanity)" についての問いかけです（と私は思います）。主人公による反重力の発明は、とある団体によって世に出されることを抑制され、さらに主人公は囚われの身になってしまいす。人間の自由とは、人類にとって技術発展は望ましいものなのか、経済という枠組みは技術発展とともにあるものなのか等が含まれています。まさしく著者の通底するテーマ "人間らしさ(humanity)" がここにはあり、そのテーマで読者を引っ張ってくれます。ただ、繰り返しになります今回は登場するテクノロジーが多すぎました。重力という基本的な概念をテーマにしたからでしょうか。登場人物が超人的だったのは広大なテーマの整合性を合わせるためにしたかなかったのかな、なんてことも感じています。