Friday, November 14, 2008

Pg. 69: Edward M. Lerner's "Fools’ Experiments"

Currently featured at the Page 69 Test: Fools’ Experiments by Edward M. Lerner.

About the book, from the publisher:
We are not alone, and it’s our own damn fault ...

Something demonic is stalking the brightest men and women in the computer industry. It attacks without warning or mercy, leaving its prey insane, comatose--or dead.

Something far nastier than any virus, worm, or Trojan horse program is being evolved in laboratory confinement by well-intentioned but misguided researchers. When their artificial life-form escapes onto the Internet, no conventional defense against malicious software can begin to compete. As disasters multiply, computer scientist Doug Carey knows that unconventional measures may be civilization’s last hope.

And that any artificial life-form learns very fast ….
Edward M. Lerner is a writer of SF and technothrillers. Learn more about the author and his work (including his collaborations with SF master Larry Niven) at the Edward M. Lerner, Perpetrator of Science Fiction and Technothrillers website and at his blog, SF and Nonsense.

The Page 69 Test: Fools’ Experiments.

--Marshal Zeringue