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kleinbl00  ·  3366 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Let's create a list of essential scifi books

Before you devote 30 seconds to Daemon, know that it is the most cringe-worthy treatment of technology or plotting in the history of the English language. It is truly "make a gui in visual basic to track the killers" grade dreck. If Stephanie Meyer and Dan Brown set out to co-author a novelization of Threat Level Midnight, the results would be eerily similar to Daemon.

But only if both Stephanie Meyer and Dan Brown were repressed tech support nerds.

    “This had all the earmarks of an SQL-injection attack, and he had a favorite one. In the logon and password boxes he entered: ‘or 1=1--”