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Terminal mind

Terminal mind

DystopianHard Sci-Fi
Pages
270
Published
2008
Language
English

Synopsis

In a future Philadelphia transformed into a sprawling city-state, a new kind of computer virus emerges, threatening not just systems but the very fabric of human consciousness. A brilliant but troubled programmer must race against time to understand this digital plague before it irrevocably alters humanity's future. The fate of the city, and perhaps the world, rests on deciphering the secrets of the "terminal mind.

Prose complexity
7/10

Vibe

TenseMysteriousThought-Provoking

Genres

Dystopian Hard Sci-Fi Science Fiction Thriller Cyberpunk

About the author

D
David Walton

David Walton is an American science fiction writer who lives in Philadelphia. His first novel, Terminal Mind (2008), shared the Philip K. Dick Award for the best original science-fiction paperback published in the United States. He followed it with Quintessence (2013) and Quintessence Sky (2013), Superposition (2015) and Supersymmetry (2015), and Three Laws Lethal (2019). The Genius Plague (2017) — a thriller in which two brothers are set against each other by a pandemic that exerts a subtle min...