Yesterday the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung published a long e-mail interview that I had the privilege to conduct with Daniel Suarez, author of the books Daemon and Freedom(TM) in english and Deutsch. English version of the interview Deutsche Version des Interviews As most people, I came to his books by recommendation of a friend. I was reading the first Book – Daemon – on a long plane trip and finished it just in time for a stopover landing. It ends in the mother of all cliffhangers, so I needed to get the sequel – Freedom(TM) (aka. Darknet in Germany) now. Ironically, thanks to functioning wireless data networks I was able to get it to my ebook reader by literally pressing it to the plane window for better coverage, just before the plane lifted off again, but barely so. After that I told everyone that they really need to read the books. They are Snowcrash-grade good, which is something I don´t say lightly as it only happens once or twice in a decade. The interview stretched as a on-off More
2011-05-02