Best conspiracy thriller books according to redditors

• Ready Player One
  
• All Systems Down
  
• Cryptonomicon
  
• Freedom (TM)
  
• Snow Crash
  
• The Forever War

Daemon and its sequel Freedom, by Daniel Suarez

Suarez is one of us.

incidentally, That's a REALLY GOOD BOOK.

Ha! Thanks for creating a subreddit dedicated to my very own series, PF. That's gotta count as a life achievement, right? (Nevermind that the subreddit is empty.) Seriously, though, thanks for the kind words.

I'm a Dresden fan myself but brand new to this subreddit, so looking forward to discussions. (Although, BLASPHEMY, I have yet to read the last 2 books of that series. I'm scared to go too far here for fear of spoilers.) On the flip side, I have a Dresden cooperative card game kickstarter reward coming my way soon, so I can pretend I still belong.

Oh, I'll actually be in an anthology with Jim Butcher releasing later this year too, so that's cool.

About my Black Magic Outlaw series, if anyone's interested: Cisco's a shadow charmer fighting on the streets of Miami. I like to keep things dark and kick my protagonist when he's down. Each novel stands alone as far as having a satisfying story, but the opening story arc was conceived to span 5 books. 4 of those books are out now and the last will be available in about a month, so there's a lot of good story for readers to plow through.

Also, for the first time ever, Book 1 (DEAD MAN) is available for free! (on Amazon and other sites)
http://www.amazon.com/dp/B019ROIX8U

I'll keep an eye out for discussion on /r/BlackMagicOutlaw and respond if readers want to interact, but I'm just happy someone thought to create the sub. If anyone wants more info on me, the best first stop is DominoFinn.com. Cheers!

I can't resist the shameless plug opportunity so here you go.

Sally Parnell from my novel, The Parnell Affair, is a bad ass, strong female character. Inspired by (but, in fact, quite different from) real-world bad ass Valerie Plame, Sally is a spy whose President betrayed her in his attempt to start a war for profit. Sally is not the sort to take that kind of thing lying down and sets out to clear her name and stop the criminal war before it begins.

I'm out of "free days" on Amazon right now but will set it to free again around March 20, if you want to wait. It's only $2.99, though, and if you're a fast reader, you could read it and return it within two weeks for a full refund.

Want a fix of female bad-ass-ness right this second? Check out this short story, The Mole, the Double-cross, and the Bath. It's about a tough as nails lady bounty hunter.

Happy reading!

http://www.amazon.com/Freedom-TM-Daemon-Book-2-ebook/dp/B002VUFKDY

as well as the original Daemon (http://www.amazon.com/Daemon-Daniel-Suarez-ebook/dp/B003QP4NPE/) Both are great reads.

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So then we can have what's in the book Freedom: http://www.amazon.com/Freedom-TM-Daniel-Suarez-ebook/dp/B002VUFKDY/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&qid=1417827999&sr=8-3&keywords=freedom

Wha?

• Daemon
  
• Freedom
  
  That's how I read them both...

I wrote The Old Soldier and the Monsters of Mount Snyder not long ago. Hope it's okay to mention here, due to relevance. It's Lovecraftian in that there's unusual monsters, stemming from prehistoric lost civilizations, which have been dug up or recreated by US intelligence/defense agencies as possible secret weapons. However, a rich jerk who recently retired from a high post in those same agencies 'borrows' the things to rid himself of his one and only nearby neighbor: a Vietnam vet who also worked for those same agencies, only decades prior.

The vet was the only property hold out when the rich guy decided to buy the whole mountain for his estate, and didn't respond to subsequent harassment, either. So the rich guy decides to let the monsters have him.

Naturally, the rich jerk underestimated the monsters, and now they've seized his estate, and no one can escape, or call in help (the monsters are smart, too). And death seems imminent for everyone still breathing.

So the jerk calls the vet next door for help (via a short range mesh phone he knows the vet possesses (the jerk has studied the guy for ways to be rid of him)) (all the standard longer distance communications gizmos are out).

And then the battle begins. The monsters though have an unusual Lovecraftian style advantage (not going to spoil it), plus a different agenda from what anyone realizes at first.

But the Vietnam vet's not your average retiree, either, with his special operations experience, cutting edge soldier gear (he still works with DARPA on some things), and his stubborn habit of staying fit and ready for action, despite his age.

Plus, he just loves hopeless situations. :-)

i liked the idea of the haptic suit in Freedom. I use my phone for everything but having different tones for various events isn't the best way to be alerted. Imagine, your left butt check twitches, there's a thai restaurant near by with a 5 star rating, your right forearm throbs, your cousin has posted another asinine political facebook rant that you can safely ignore, middle of your back itches, there's an open wifi sport nearby...

The Final Reckoning by Sam Bourne?

More details here, here and here.

It made me think of the sustainability of the global food industry, especially here in the USA. I recently re-read the book Freedom™ by Daniel Suarez, and it raised some interesting concepts about so-called thousand mile supply chains. Excellent read.

EDIT: You're right - she does look PISSED. Plus the German stack of food seems to be way more orderly than anyone else's.

Gunpowder Moon - Here is part of the blurb: "A realistic and chilling vision of life on the Moon, where dust kills as easily as the vacuum of space…but murder is even quicker—a fast-paced, cinematic science fiction thriller, this debut novel combines the inventiveness of The Martian, the intrigue of The Expanse, and the thrills of Red Rising."

I read it a month or so ago. I liked some parts of it a lot. It is a fairly quick read. It also challenges the reader to think about war in a new light.

Is there an Amazon or Wikipedia link? I can only find a self help book.

Edit: found it: New Earth: Project O.N.E.

like these non-speakers
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Englishman-Who-Went-Hill-DVD/dp/B00AT14ZRE/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1475115724&sr=8-2&keywords=an+englishman
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Englishman-War-Wartime-Christopherson-1939-1945/dp/0593075501/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1475115724&sr=8-1&keywords=an+englishman
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Englishman-In-New-York/dp/B001KU8BNM/ref=sr_1_7?ie=UTF8&qid=1475115724&sr=8-7&keywords=an+englishman
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Englishmans-Guide-Infidelity-betrayal-genteel-ebook/dp/B00R63GXW8/ref=sr_1_19?ie=UTF8&qid=1475115773&sr=8-19&keywords=an+englishman

Now I be from Norwich, guess that sound to you but it perfect English for me

The function of money itself is a variable.

What is money? I've heard it as "An agreement within a community to establish a system for the distribution of resources."

Everything about how it works: inflation, interest, scale, who issues it. . . is all arbitrary.

Markets, as they currently function, are set up to drive unsustainable recurring growth. . . and they've shaped global human behavior toward a kind of destructiveness, greed and unchecked ambition that is SINGLE HANDEDLY the source of, I will go so far as to say "most" of the human suffering in the world. But those that benefit from them the most are almost Pavlovianly conditioned to have a hard time seeing this. This is a big problem.

If YOU would like to open your eyes, here's some resources:

Barnard Lietaer was a world class economist (who was one of the architects of the Euro. . .which he warned was going to cause and run into a lot of the same problems as it has, but it had POLITICAL requirements that HAD to be met that had those problems baked in) who focused his work on helping communities reimagine the idea of what currency even is. When you realize it doesn't have to work the way it does, the whole way that markets even work starts to look. . . well downright evil and unnecessary. . . sorry Libertarians.

This book and it's sequel are interesting techno-thriller sci-fi. But the second book imagines a system by which a market economy could be managed by democratized opensource AI to produce MUCH better social outcomes. This kind of a system is MUCH more in reach than people reflexively think. It also takes a look at how one MIGHT use gamification to help people rethink their preconceived notions of how economies MUST work.

And also. . .this is dope!

I wrote a spooky book, if anybody's into horror with lots of tentacles and explosions.

https://www.amazon.com/Sister-Verse-Talons-Ruin-ebook/dp/B07GVT6YDB/

Summary: John, an unstable detective living in an alternate future, is plagued by hallucinations of a malevolent, shapeshifting entity that haunted his childhood. While he struggles to maintain his grip on reality, he soon discovers that his world is a terrifying illusion designed to make him suffer.

The Sister Verse and the Talons of Ruin is the first book in a series of four that explores the realms of Lovecraftian horror, epic fantasy, and science fiction through an action-packed narrative of unrestrained psychedelic violence.

I also have a bunch of free short stories. Here's one about a pilot on a suicide mission to prevent the Earth from being eaten by a giant space monster: https://amelieclanglois.com/tv.html

The Maltings, my debut dystopian fiction novella:

In an idyllic town of endless summers and opulent lifestyles, Michal lives a faultless existence. He has no need to question the overbearing authority of his wife, the uniform houses in palatial estates or his mandatory bi-annual doctor appointments. But when a neighbour suddenly vanishes, he starts to become suspicious of this flawless life. Alongside Kittymara, a lively new presence in the stoic community, he begins to investigate what lies beneath the unvarying activities of life in the Maltings and discovers the chilling reason behind his perfect existence.

Indents are not necessary and I've read a lot of novels with no indenting whatsoever. For example Harry Potter: No indents and good enough to sell millions.

http://www2.sdfi.edu.cn/netclass/jiaoan/englit/download/Harry%20Potter%20and%20the%20Sorcerer's%20Stone.pdf

In other writing every paragraph is indented, regardless of dialogue or not, including the first paragraph. For example see the 'look inside' of Tom Sawyer

https://www.amazon.com/Adventures-Tom-Sawyer-Biographical-Introduction-ebook/dp/B000FC1C46/ref=sr_1_4?ie=UTF8&qid=1542811211&sr=8-4&keywords=where+the+red+fern+grows+kindle

Final example/final edit: Dresden files indents every paragraph except the first paragraph of each chapter. Again you can refer to the 'look inside'.

https://www.amazon.com/Dead-Black-Magic-Outlaw-Book-ebook/dp/B019ROIX8U/ref=sr_1_1_sspa?ie=UTF8&qid=1542811463&sr=8-1-spons&keywords=dresden+files&psc=1

Just pick a convention and be consistent.

Link to pre-order the Kindle version for 99 cents (It'll release on Dec. 5, and the price goes up a few days later).

If you enjoy this story, the first full length novel in its accompanying series launched today on Kindle Unlimited!


https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07RT7P87Z

This one’s pretty much on point.

Have you read Freedom (TM)?

It's a sequel to Daemon, but paints a vision of the world close to yours.

Robert Gregory Browne - Trial Junkies!

Also on kindle
http://www.amazon.com/Chasing-Justice-Anderson-Series-ebook/dp/B00CC19MS6/ref=sr_1_1?s=digital-text&ie=UTF8&qid=1376613384&sr=1-1&keywords=Chasing+justice

Daemon and it's sequel Freedom by Daniel Suarez would probably be a good recommendation if you like those two books you mentioned in the title.

This sounds very similar to the plot on Daniel Suarez's book Kill Decision: Link
Which I HIGHLY recommend.

Along with his other books Daemon and Freedom.

They are AMAZING on audible...