Daniel Suarez (writer)

Daniel Suarez after a tech talk at a Google subsidiary (April 2010)

Daniel Suarez (born December 21, 1964 ) is an American software developer , systems consultant and writer (he first published under the Ananym Leinad Zeraus). He is the author of several thrillers with a high technical content.

Life

In 2006 Daniel Suarez, who previously worked as a programmer and systems consultant, published the book Daemon , which was completed in 2004, first self-published, later by Dutton . The thriller describes many technologies that sound like science fiction , but most of them are available today. The title of the book refers to programs running in the background of Unixoid operating systems - daemons . Similarly, the story of the book revolves around a program left behind by a dead game developer - an artificial intelligence that operates in the background of the Internet and from there influences the real world. It communicates with people by means of a MMORPG -like virtual reality , the so-called D-Space, the darknet . This is conveyed by means of head-up displays as augmented reality in everyday life for followers of the Darknet . Components of social networks are linked to this mixed reality - including a form of digital social reputation that is intended to reflect the contribution of a member to the darknet community.

The producer Walter F. Parkes , screenwriter of WarGames , has secured an option to film Daemon together with Paramount Pictures . In 2013, Westdeutsche Rundfunk produced a three-part radio play version of the novel in 5.1 surround sound under the direction of Petra Feldhoff .

The second book Darknet (in the English original Freedom ™ ) continues the plot started in Daemon . If artificial intelligence still plays a negative, violent, manipulative role in Daemon , a social utopia is now being developed which, by means of decentralized production and sustainable energy generation , is supposed to represent an alternative to a dystopian world. The social structures developed in typical cyberpunk novels with a weak nation state and ruling private corporations are described here in their development.

On July 19, 2012, Daniel Suarez published his third novel Kill Decision (German: "Killungsentteilung"), which deals with autonomous drones and swarm intelligence and addresses anonymous warfare. In 2013, Suarez also gave a speech on this topic at the TEDGlobal conference .

The fourth book Control (in the original English Influx ) deals with a US agency that controls new technologies and keeps them under lock and key in order to avoid social unrest.

All four novels were translated into German by Cornelia Holfelder-von der Tann . Hollywood secured the film rights to Influx even before the book was published.

In 2017, BIOS (in the original English Change Agent ) appeared. In it, Suarez deals with gene editing , i.e. the modification of gene sequences and their personal and legal consequences.

The 2019 novel Delta-v deals with asteroid mining .

Works

• Daemon . Verdugo, Los Angeles 2006, ISBN 978-0-9786271-0-2 . New edition: Daemon . Signet, New York 2009, ISBN 978-0-451-22873-4 (German: Daemon: the world is just a game . From the American by Cornelia Holfelder-von der Tann (= rororo, 25245). Rowohlt, Reinbek 2010, ISBN 978-3-499-25245-7 ).
• Freedom ™ . Dutton, New York 2010, ISBN 978-0-525-95157-5 . New edition: Freedom ™ . Signet, New York 2011, ISBN 978-0-451-23189-5 (German: Darknet . From the American by Cornelia Holfelder-von der Tann (= rororo, 25244). Rowohlt, Reinbek 2011, ISBN 978-3-499- 25244-0 ).
• Kill decision . Dutton, New York 2012, ISBN 978-0-525-95261-9 (German: Kill Decision . From the American by Cornelia Holfelder-von der Tann (= rororo, 25918). Rowohlt, Reinbek 2013, ISBN 978-3-499 -25918-0 ).
• Influx . Dutton, New York 2012, ISBN 978-0-525-95318-0 (German: Control . From the American by Cornelia Holfelder-von der Tann (= rororo, 26863). Rowohlt, Reinbek 2014, ISBN 978-3-499- 26863-2 ).
• Change agent . Dutton, New York 2017, ISBN 978-1-101-98651-6 (German: Bios. From the American by Cornelia Holfelder-von der Tann (= rororo, 29133). Rowohlt, Reinbek 2017, ISBN 978-3-499- 29133-3 ).
• Delta v. Dutton, New York 2019, ISBN 978-1-5247-4241-6 (German: Delta-v. From the American by Cornelia Holfelder-von der Tann. Rowohlt Polaris, Reinbek 2019, ISBN 978-3-499-00151-2 ).

Audio books

• Daemon . Read by Matthias Lühn . Ronin Hörverlag , Erlangen 2013, ISBN 978-3-943864-41-0 (unabridged 16:34).
• Darknet . Read by Matthias Lühn. Ronin-Hörverlag, Erlangen 2013, ISBN 978-3-943864-42-7 (unabridged 12:43).
• Kill decision . Read by Tobias Kluckert . Argon Verlag , Berlin 2013, ISBN 978-3-8398-1245-7 (unabridged 12:43).
• Control . Read by Uve Teschner . Argon Verlag, Berlin 2014, ISBN 978-3-7324-5031-2 (unabridged 13:50).
• BIOS . Read by Uve Teschner. Argon Verlag, Berlin 2017, ISBN 978-3-7324-5170-8 (unabridged 13:21).
• Delta-V . Read by Uve Teschner. Argon Verlag, Berlin 2019, ISBN 978-3-7324-5292-7 (unabridged 15:31).

literature

• Uwe Kramm: The demon in the cyber forest. A conversation with computer specialist and science fiction author Daniel Suarez about data security, armed drones and why his books will soon have to be added to historical novels . In: Sascha Mamczak , Sebastian Pirling, Wolfgang Jeschke (eds.): The Science Fiction Year 2013 . Heyne, Munich 2013, ISBN 978-3-453-53444-5 , pp. 293-308.

Web links

Commons : Daniel Suarez  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Wikiquote: Daniel Suarez  - Quotes

• Literature by and about Daniel Suarez in the catalog of the German National Library
• Daniel Suarez in the Internet Speculative Fiction Database (English)
• Works by and about Daniel Suarez at Open Library
• Daniel Suarez in the Science Fiction Awards + Database (English)
• official homepage
• Lecture and discussion at the event re: claim autonomy on December 5, 2016 in Berlin: "How technology is changing the way we think"

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Josh McHugh: How the Self-Published Debut Daemon Earned Serious Geek Cred. Wired , April 21, 2008, accessed December 16, 2014 . 
2. ^ Daniel Suarez: Daemon . Signet, 2009, ISBN 978-0-451-22873-4 (inside of the back cover).
3. ^ Daniel Suarez: The technology depicted in Daemon and Freedom ™ may seem like science fiction, but it actually exists ... Retrieved April 15, 2010 (English). 
4. ↑ Florian Rötzer: The Internet as a death machine. In: Telepolis . heise online , March 23, 2010, accessed on April 15, 2010 . 
5. ↑ Jeffrey A. Trachtenberg: When Computers Rule the World. In: The Wall Street Journal . March 18, 2009, accessed April 15, 2010 . 
6. ↑ Frank Rieger : We are being conquered with a system. In: faz.net. Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung , May 1, 2011, accessed on May 1, 2011 . 
7. ↑ Dietmar Dath : How technology is turning the world for the worse. July 21, 2012, accessed June 9, 2016 . 
8. ↑ TED 2013 - The kill decision shouldn't belong to a robot. ted.com, June 2014, accessed May 14, 2015 . 
9. ↑ Stefan Holzhauer: Fox filmed the science fiction thriller INFLUX. phantanews.de, January 4, 2014, accessed January 9, 2015 .