FOOLS' EXPERIMENTS
Edward M. Lerner
ISBN 0765319012
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To be released November 11,
2008
Early raves:
"Viruses and worms have come to be an important 'feature' of our network landscape. And yet this is just the beginning. In FOOLS' EXPERIMENTS, Edward M. Lerner gives us a fascinating view on how awesome these threats could soon become."
— Vernor Vinge, Hugo award-winning author of RAINBOW’S END
"FOOLS' EXPERIMENTS is science fiction at its dazzling best, and one hell of a technothriller."
— Stephen Coonts, New York Times best-selling author
"Must reading for anyone worried about computer viruses. They're primitive; in FOOLS' EXPERIMENTS, an expert imagines how deadly a thing might evolve from them—and how fast!"
— Stanley Schmidt, Editor, Analog Science Fiction and Fact
"The age of spiritual machines is almost upon us, and Edward M. Lerner is our advance scout. He's already been where the rest of us will soon be heading and gives us fascinating, compelling, exciting glimpses of what lies ahead. A terrific book by a terrific author."
— Robert J. Sawyer, Hugo Award-winning author of HOMINIDS on FOOLS' EXPERIMENTS.
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 ....