Daniel Suarez

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Daniel Suarez is an American IT consultant turned author of science fiction thrillers. He initially published his critically acclaimed novel under the pen name Leinad Zeraus, which is a play on his name Daniel Suarez written backwards. His first novel was the 2006 published Daemon which he self-published. During his system consultant days, he consulted for Fortune 1000 companies, and developed and designed innovative technologies and software for entertainment, finance, and defense industries. Given his long held interest in creative writing and IT systems, most of his sci-fi and high-tech novels are about technology driven change. In addition to consulting for a range of companies, he has spoken about technology at the Long Now Foundation, …show more content…
His first novel Demon and its sequel are about the rise of a botnet that that takes control of computers, crashes the stock market, takes control of self-driving cars to kill humans with them, and clones a society in its own image. He would follow that with a novel about drones that would decide to use lethal force to control humans without needing any human input. While he keeps his technological focus, in Influx, he changes direction by telling the story of how a secret US government seizes the work of a scientist that invents a machine that could reverse gravity. Reading Suarez’s novels get the reader a feeling, that maybe it is high time someone controlled the rate of technological advancement and its adoption. However, he negates this in the later novels by asserting that government controls on technology could just be as detrimental to development and innovation, as much as technology itself could be on human life. Government control of technology means that they could just be as detrimental since a group of people can stockpile enough technology such that they can control all aspects of human life. They could eventually run out of control just as machines or