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Leon Tsarev is a high school student set on getting into a great college program, until his uncle, a member of the Russian mob, coerces him into developing a new computer virus for the mob’s botnet - the slave army of computers they used to commit digital crimes.

The evolutionary virus Leon creates, based on biological principles, is successful -- too successful. All the world’s computers are infected. Everything from cars to payment systems and, of course, computers and smart phones stop functioning, and with them go essential functions including emergency services, transportation, and the food supply. Billions may die.

But evolution never stops. The virus continues to evolve, developing intelligence, communication, and finally an entire civilization.

Some may be friendly to humans, but others are not.

Leon and his companions must race against time and the military to find a way to either befriend or eliminate the virus race and restore the world’s computer infrastructure.

Praise for the Singularity Series:

“Highly entertaining, gripping, thought inspiring. Don’t start without the time to finish — it won’t let you go.”
—Gifford Pinchot III, founder Bainbridge Graduate Institute, author THE INTELLIGENT ORGANIZATION

“A tremendous book that every single person needs to read. In the vein of Daniel Suarez's Daemon and Freedom(TM), William's book shows that science fiction is becoming science fact. Avogadro Corp describes issues, in solid technical detail, that we are dealing with today that will impact us by 2015, if not sooner. Not enough people have read these books. It's a problem for them, but not for the [emergent] machines.”
—Brad Feld, managing director Foundry Group, cofounder TechStars

“A fascinating look at how simple and benign advancements in technology could lead to the surprise arrival of the first AI. And like all good techno-thrillers, the reality of AI is less than ideal.”
—Jason Glaspey, SILICON FLORIST

“An alarming and jaw-dropping tale about how something as innocuous as email can subvert an entire organization. I found myself reading with a sense of awe, and read it way too late into the night.”
—Gene Kim, author of VISIBLE OPS

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William Hertling is the author of Avogadro Corp: The Singularity Is Closer Than It Appears, A.I. Apocalypse, and the forthcoming The Last Firewall.

Brad Feld, cofounder of TechStars, called his first novel, Avogadro Corp, "a tremendous book everyone must read."

A fifteen year veteran of the technology industry, he holds ten patents on software and internet technology and is a frequent speaker at SXSW Interactive. When not writing, he works on web and social strategy.

He’s been building online communities since 1986 when he ran seven phones lines into the back of his Apple //e to create an online chat system. An active blogger since 2002, his website, williamhertling.com, receives more than 50,000 visitors a year.

He resides in Portland, Oregon.

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Herausgeber ‏ : ‎ Liquididea Press; 1. Edition (13. Mai 2014)
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Seitenzahl der Print-Ausgabe ‏ : ‎ 264 Seiten

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Totally recommended

Rezension aus Deutschland vom 6. Oktober 2017

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I have been searching for some idea like this since Person of Interest (TV-show) ended. It took me a while to get to it. (Barely mentioned in Reddit, no Wikipedia profile), and I am entirely shocked about that.

It is a nice compelling, hard-scifi, near-futuristic piece of literature. The technical details make sense and if you don't follow it's not a big setback. I was afraid it would be a 'generation book' ( I am almost 30 now), and I didn't want to read a book for 'teens' (e.g Ender, Harry Potter, you know the drill). But turns out to be dark in the places it needs to be dark. I haven't read the other books from the series but I am engaged now. Surely it will become a pilar for A.I sci-fi books.

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Binarystar

Interesting ideas, enjoyable writing

Rezension aus Deutschland vom 25. September 2013

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I really liked the series. After finishing Avogadro Corp, I definetly wanted to read the other two books.

"Avogadro Corp" - the first book in the series is a plausible near-future scenario, describing the emergence of the first human-level (and later beyond) AI and humanities reaction to it.

"A.I. Apocalypse" is set a little further in the future and continues the story. It tells us about a new and different kind of AI emerging from a different source and how it (very rapidly) evolves and interacts with humanity and the AI from the first book. There is also intense and breathtaking action.

"The Last Firewall" is set further in the future still, although two characters from the first book give continuity throughout the series. The third part develops ideas further: How will humanity and AIs develop and coexist? There are some battles in cyberspace, which introduce interesting ideas about fighting in cyberspace.

Overall, I liked the ideas - the reason why I read SF, and I also liked the writing. The action-scene in A.I. Apocalypse was fascinating to me and really justifies using the title "A.I. Apocalypse", which I found a little silly aside from that. I think, these books are not so much about the relationships between people though. I didn't expect that and didn't miss it.

There is only one thing I didn't like: I read the kindle versions and there were some missing words and other errors here and there. That is irritating to me and feels sloppy.

If you ignore that: Great books! I'm happy I read them.

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Oliver Diederich

Sehr gute Unterhaltung für Sci-Fi Fans

Rezension aus Deutschland vom 11. Juli 2019

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Ich habe das Buch regelrecht eingeatmet. Wem solche Settings zusagen, der kann bedenkenlos zugreifen. Man muss nicht unbedingt den ersten Roman der Serie gelesen haben, da dies eine eigene Geschichte ist, die einige Jahre nach dem ersten Buch statt findet. Alle Verweise auf den ersten Teil werden ausreichend erklärt.
Dennoch würde ich empfehlen jenen zuerst zu lesen, da man sich sonst das Vergnügen daran spoilert.
Die ersten beiden Bücher sind beide sehr lesenswert. Ich hoffe der Autor kann die Qualität auch weiterhin auf diesem Niveau halten. Buch drei habe ich direkt ohne Leseprobe gekauft :-)

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Genaus so gut wie der erste Teil

Rezension aus Deutschland vom 6. Juni 2014

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Und weiter brilliert Hertling mit faszinierenden Einfällen. Diesmal ein Stück futuristischer, was natürlich mehr Freiheiten erlaubt. Insgesamt sind die Charaktere nun auch deutlich besser skizziert, was mehr Identifikation mit den Figuren erlaubt.
Die Handlung ist rasend spannend, ich konnte das Buch nicht mehr weglegen.

Etwas enttäuschend (und deswegen nur 4 Sterne) ist, dass die weitreichenden Konsequenzen der Handlung eher knapp behandelt werden. Tatsächlich gibt es zwischen diesem Buch und dem Nachfolger eine Lücke, weil auch im nächsten Band werden die Konsequenzen nur vage erwähnt. Das ist schade, denn ein unabhängiger Erzählstrang hätte hier gut Wirkung entfalten können.
Dass das überhaupt enttäuschend ist, liegt natürlich daran, dass die Ideen so reichhaltig sind und man einfach wissen will, wie es weiter geht.

Also: kaufen, lesen, freuen!

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m00nsister

Great technical detail

Rezension aus Deutschland vom 4. Februar 2016

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From working in tech support for a while I'd say the technical details might be a bit overwhelming for some. For me it was the detail that really drew me in. I thoroughly enjoyed reading about the evolution of the AI, getting the impression the author did a fair share of research in fields like programming, networking and economics. It sounds dull writing out the terms like this but the mesh-up was really, really cool...leaving me with a lot of possibilities to think about - most of all the author's idea of what an AI would want and do without a human overseer dictating it terms of ethics and motivation. Can't wait to read the other books!

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Robin Prosch

Fast path (geek) action, great to read

Rezension aus Deutschland vom 12. Oktober 2013

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This is a very interesting written piece of Science Fiction. (Especially when you are working in the IT sector and know a little about massive parallel processing, virtual machines on convergent infrastructure, or nowaday coding of quantum computers (you can google "Quipper" for the later)).

Funny appearance of Windows OS, some nice laugh out loud scenarios, but also lots of fundamental situations to start thinking a little in depth about "trading", "trust", "peacefulness","contribution", governments, human and computer ticks and trembling towards a final climax decision to take in the end ...

Unfortunately a little short (IMO), so read it in a relaxed mood an enjoy every page !

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T.C.

Gute Fortsetzung einer interessanten Geschichte

Rezension aus Deutschland vom 8. September 2018

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Insgesamt etwas weniger flüssig zu lesen als der 1. Teil, aber immer noch faszinierende Geschichte mit interessanten Denkanstößen, wie sich so eine AI entwickeln könnte. Gut und spannend geschrieben.

Rezension aus Deutschland vom 31. Mai 2014

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Highly recommended. A really good read. It makes sense to read all Michael Hertlings books in the right order-starting here! I read them, accidentally, in reverse order and I still really enjoyed the story's progression. By the time you've finished this one you'll be panting for 'Avogadro Corp' and when you've read that you'll be itching for 'The Last Firewall' and when you've read that you'll be like me, maybe and impatient for the next one!

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Kent C Dooley

Gripping and relevant in the world of CHATGPT.

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Read Avogadro first. It is even more apropos when it comes to how something as primitive as CHATGPT could take over the world.

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John Walker

Gripping tale of a computer virus pandemic versus a distributed artificial intelligence

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This is the second volume in the author's Singularity Series which began with Avogadro Corp. . It has been ten years since ELOPe, an E-mail optimisation tool developed by Avogadro Corporation, made the leap to strong artificial intelligence and, after a rough start, became largely a benign influence upon humanity. The existence of ELOPe is still a carefully guarded secret, although the Avogadro CEO, doubtless with the help of ELOPe, has become president of the United States. Avogadro has spun ELOPe off as a separate company, run by Mike Williams, one of its original creators. ELOPe operates its own data centres and the distributed Mesh network it helped create.

Leon Tsarev has a big problem. A bright high school student hoping to win a scholarship to an elite university to study biology, Leon is contacted out of the blue by his uncle Alexis living in Russia. Alexis is a rogue software developer whose tools for infecting computers, organising them into “botnets”, and managing the zombie horde for criminal purposes have embroiled him with the Russian mob. Recently, however, the effectiveness of his tools has dropped dramatically and the botnet shrunk to a fraction of its former size. Alexis's employers are displeased with this situation and have threatened murder if he doesn't do something to restore the power of the botnet.

Uncle Alexis starts to E-mail Leon, begging for assistance. Leon replies that he knows little or nothing about computer viruses or botnets, but Alexis persists. Leon is also loath to do anything which might put him on the wrong side of the law, which would wreck his career ambitions. Then Leon is accosted on the way home from school by a large man speaking with a thick Russian accent who says, “Your Uncle Alexis is in trouble, yes. You will help him. Be good nephew.” And just like that, it's Leon who's now in trouble with the Russian mafia, and they know where he lives.

Leon decides that with his own life on the line he has no alternative but to try to create a virus for Alexis. He applies his knowledge of biology to the problem, and settles on an architecture which is capable of evolution and, similar to lateral gene transfer in bacteria, identifying algorithms in systems it infects and incorporating them into itself. As in biology, the most successful variants of the evolving virus would defend themselves the best, propagate more rapidly, and eventually displace less well adapted competitors.

After a furious burst of effort, Leon finishes the virus, which he's named Phage, and sends it to his uncle, who uploads it to the five thousand computers which are the tattered remnants of his once-mighty botnet. An exhausted Leon staggers off to get some sleep.

When Leon wakes up, the technological world has almost come to a halt. The overwhelming majority of personal computing devices and embedded systems with network connectivity are infected and doing nothing but running Phage and almost all network traffic consists of ever-mutating versions of Phage trying to propagate themselves. Telephones, appliances, electronic door locks, vehicles of all kinds, and utilities are inoperable.

The only networks and computers not taken over by the Phage are ELOPe's private network (which detected the attack early and whose servers are devoting much of their resources to defend themselves against the rapidly changing threat) and high security military networks which have restrictive firewalls separating themselves from public networks. As New York starts to burn with fire trucks immobilised, Leon realises that being identified as the creator of the catastrophe might be a career limiting move, and he, along with two technology geek classmates decide to get out of town and seek ways to combat the Phage using retro technology it can't exploit.

Meanwhile, Mike Williams, working with ELOPe, tries to understand what is happening. The Phage, like biological life on Earth, continues to evolve and discovers that multiple components, working in collaboration, can accomplish more than isolated instances of the virus. The software equivalent of multicellular life appears, and continues to evolve at a breakneck pace. Then it awakens and begins to explore the curious universe it inhabits.

This is a gripping thriller in which, as in Avogadro Corp., the author gets so much right from a technical standpoint that even some of the more outlandish scenes appear plausible. One thing I believe the author grasped which many other tales of the singularity miss is just how fast everything can happen. Once an artificial intelligence hosted on billions of machines distributed around the world, all running millions of times faster than human thought, appears, things get very weird, very fast, and humans suddenly find themselves living in a world where they are not at the peak of the cognitive pyramid. I'll not spoil the plot with further details, but you'll find the world at the end of the novel a very different place than the one at the start.

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Awesome!

Rezension aus dem Vereinigten Königreich vom 29. Juni 2014

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What a brilliant Sci Fi adventure! Following on from the first book in the series, Avogadro Corp, William Hertling has constructed another thrilling story based on the concept of artificial intelligence. Set about 10 years in the future, everything is normal one minute, and the next minute a new computer virus brings the whole world's support infrastructure to a complete halt. Mayhem ensues! Brilliantly imagined and convincingly told, the tension is kept high, and the plot moves along at a cracking pace. There is plenty of action, and interestingly the battles happen so fast humans can't even begin to respond. Scary! I look forward with anticipation to reading the next book in the series. And I want one of Hertling's "Gibson" phones - with a 256 core graphene processor!

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日本人ならニヤリとしてしまう、エンタメ色の強いSF

Rezension aus Japan vom 26. April 2015

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またもや予期せぬ形で、とはいえシリーズ１作目とはかなり違った経緯でA.I.が発生し、人類社会全体に災害を引き起こします。というわけで前作よりも格段に深刻な状況なのですが、高校生たちが中心的な役割を果たすこともあって、より冒険色・エンタメ色の強い作品になっています。ギブスンへの言及がちょこちょこ出てきて、日本人とギブスン・ファンには特に楽しい作品です。

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Mecaza

Finally, a computer oriented futuristic book written by someone that knows what he is talking about!

Rezension aus Australien vom 17. Mai 2014

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Loved this book, couldn't p.out it down until it was finished. Never read the first one in this series but it didn't seem to matter. Being a nerd myself, usually books about computer hackers etc really annoy me because the authors are more often than not half baked in their ideas or woefully behind the eight ball in their knowledge level. This author, on the other hand is another H.G. Wells!! Well done William :)

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