Starfish
Following with my Books-To-Read-Queue, I just finished reading this book:
Most of the book deals with the life of 6 persons onboard a deep-sea power station, who had to be modded to be able to survive in this high pressure environment. The crew is composed by rapists, pedophiles, borderline psychotics,
and victims of same, so you might guess the interaction between them might be. Also they get infected by a virus-like entity called βehemoth which, if set loose upon the world, will destroy all of the human race (and the ecosystem), and i'm talking in a bad way. The thing is, everything goes south thanks to fact that the powerfull nations of the world (year 2050) couldn't trust themselves, so they trust the handling of βehemoth to Skynet "Smart gels" (which appear to be some kind of Neural Net). The problem is that the computer has a thing for simpler systems (βehemoth) over complex ones (us). The reason for that, being related to what the net had become in those days and the role of the Smart gels in controlling it.
I can hardly wait to read Maelstrom (by the way, this is the name that the Interweb is called on those days) and see where this leads to, this one ended in quite a bit of hell in a desperate attempt to destroy βehemoth and I heard it somehow gets to enter the Maelstrom and evolve there. :)
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"a virus-like entity called βehemoth which, if set loose upon the world, will destroy all of the human race"? Come on!
Care to elaborate further and prove me wrong?
I'm just trying to avoid entering into details about this one, trying not to bring too many spoilers, so it is possible that my summary sucks.
Will try to improve it somewhat.