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The Dark Net de Benjamin Percy

The Dark Net

Autor Benjamin Percy
en Limba Engleză Paperback – iun 2018

Simțim o neliniște profundă încă de la primele pagini ale acestui roman semnat de Benjamin Percy, o lucrare care transformă spațiul digital dintr-o unealtă cotidiană într-un vehicul pentru răul arhaic. Remarcăm cum autorul reușește să evoce o atmosferă sumbră, în care „Dark Net”-ul nu este doar un colț ascuns al internetului pentru tranzacții ilicite, ci o poartă de acces pentru entități demonice. Subliniem măiestria cu care Percy construiește tensiunea: nu este vorba doar despre coduri informatice, ci despre modul în care tehnologia ne vulnerabilizează psihicul și sufletul. Reținem perspectiva inedită a Hannei, fetița a cărei proteză vizuală de înaltă tehnologie îi permite să vadă umbrele supranaturale ce îi înconjoară pe cei din jur, oferind o lentilă de horror pur asupra modernității.

Cei care au parcurs The Hacker de Daniel Scanlan vor fi pregătiți pentru realismul tehnic și mizele înalte ale unei vânătoare cibernetice, însă The Dark Net adaugă o dimensiune metafizică terifiantă pe care Scanlan o lasă în zona proceduralului. Dacă în alte lucrări ale sale, precum The Wilding, Percy explora teroarea în mijlocul naturii sălbatice, aici el mută „horror-ul gotic” în circuitele de siliciu și în subsolurile întunecate ale orașelor moderne. Stilul său, descris de critici ca fiind un amestec între Stephen King și estetica Black Mirror, transformă acest roman polițist cu elemente supranaturale într-o experiență viscerală, unde virusul informatic devine o posesie demonică reală.

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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781328915375
ISBN-10: 1328915379
Pagini: 272
Dimensiuni: 133 x 203 x 16 mm
Greutate: 0.35 kg
Editura: Mariner Books
Locul publicării:United States

De ce să citești această carte

Recomandăm această carte cititorilor care caută un hibrid între un roman polițist alert și horror-ul clasic. Veți câștiga o perspectivă neliniștitoare asupra dependenței noastre de tehnologie, totul ambalat într-o narațiune propulsivă. Este lectura ideală pentru cei care vor să exploreze latura întunecată a digitalizării printr-o poveste unde miza nu este doar securitatea datelor, ci supraviețuirea umanității în fața unui rău străvechi.

Despre autor

Benjamin Percy este un scriitor premiat, distins cu Whiting Writers Award, Plimpton Prize și două premii Pushcart. Recunoscut pentru versatilitatea sa, Percy navighează cu succes între literatura de nișă și cultura populară, fiind autorul romanului The Wilding și al unor colecții de povestiri apreciate precum Refresh, Refresh. Expertiza sa în construirea personajelor aflate la granița dintre moralitate și supraviețuire este vizibilă și în scenariile sale pentru seriile de benzi desenate Marvel, în special în volumele din seria Ghost Rider, unde explorează teme similare ale răzbunării și supranaturalului. Locuiește în Minnesota, contextul geografic influențându-i adesea atmosfera densă și izolată a scrierilor sale.

Descriere scurtă

“Thrilling . . . one of the best Stephen King novels not written by the master himself. . . . The setup promises furious action, and Percy delivers, like [Richard] Matheson, like King. . . An awfully impressive literary performance.”—New York Times Book Review

“Masterful crafting . . . a horror story for our times.”—Minneapolis Star Tribune
 
The Dark Net is real. An anonymous and often criminal arena that exists in the secret far reaches of the Web, some use it to manage Bitcoins, pirate movies and music, or traffic in drugs and stolen goods. And now, an ancient darkness is gathering there as well. This force is threatening to spread virally into the real world unless it can be stopped by members of a ragtag crew, including a twelve-year-old who has been fitted with a high-tech visual prosthetic to combat her blindness; a technophobic journalist; a one-time child evangelist with an arsenal in his basement; and a hacker who believes himself a soldier of the Internet.
            Set in present-day Portland, The Dark Net is a cracked-mirror version of the digital nightmare we already live in, a timely and wildly imaginative techno-thriller about the evil that lurks in real and virtual spaces, and the power of a united few to fight back.
 
“This is horror literature’s bebop, bold, smart, confident in its capacity to redefine its genre from the ground up. Read this book, but take a firm grip on your hat before you start.”—Peter Straub

Recenzii

A New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice  Minnesota Book Award finalist An Indie Next Pick An iBooks Most Anticipated Mystery & Thriller Selection  A Powell's Books Staff Pick  An Amazon Best Book of the Month, Mysteries and Thrillers   "A rare cyber thriller that will keep your eyes focused as you turn pages breathlessly." — The Washington Book Review   “Percy’s greatest strength- and he has many- has always been his world building…those who only know of Percy’s work through his meteoric success in comic books will find THE DARK NET to be the perfect crossover work to his novels. Action packed, fast-paced, and incredibly imaginative, THE DARK NET is yet another feather in Benjamin Percy’s cap.” — Crimespree Magazine   "Of all the things that The Dark Net is, the greatest is that it’s a Blob-swallowing thing...if you’re into Benjamin Percy’s work, you’ll love this, and if you don’t even know who Benjamin Percy is, this book will make you want to devour his other books." —PANK Magazine   “Maybe you've read it before. But you haven't read it like Percy can write it.”—The Lewiston Tribune  "Fast-paced demonic cyber-thriller...Percy keeps it suspenseful and compelling from the first page. The authentic Portland, Oregon, setting with a pivotal scene in Powell’s Bookstore is also a draw. Think twice before accessing this on an e-reader, unless you think can handle the extra layer of terror." —Booklist  "Percy (The Dead Lands­) turns in a fast-paced thriller with crisp, honest dialogue and well-imagined characters. His premise is fanciful yet anchored in believability." — Library Journal    "Percy takes the darkest conspiracy theories you can imagine and makes them the stuff of nightmares....humankind is held responsible for its irresponsibility, paying the price for all the convenience we take for granted, for our obsession with the digital world...the message is effective and scary...there's something undeniably creepy about the thought that your smartphone can possess you. A gory cautionary tale." — Kirkus   "Percy’s blend of cyberpunk-style sf and occult horror is a perfect combo for summer chills." — Library Journal   "Benjamin Percy's distinctive brand of horror fiction...is on full display in The Dark Net. The novel blends aspects of techno-thrillers with supernatural horror for page-turning results. Percy is no stranger to unlikely genre fusions, but The Dark Net's idiosyncratic brew is particularly enticing."—Shelf Awareness   “Written in vivid, often lyrical prose, but with exhilarating comic-book energy, THE DARK NET is a megawatt defibrillator to the reader’s heart. Quirky but very human characters confront an explosive emergence of the supernatural into our world, in this imaginative, spooky, swiftly paced tale threaded through with dark humor.” — Dean Koontz   “THE DARK NET kicked my ass with its deft mash-up of both blackhat hacker culture and black magic. Percy reveals an upgraded, rebooted battle between good versus evil — a fast, fantastic, throat-punch of a read.” — Chuck Wendig, NYT bestselling author of Blackbirds and Zer0es   "Benjamin Percy's THE DARK NET channels the spirit of your favorite sprawling and epic, 1980's horror/thriller novels into a tightly paced, nasty, unrelenting 21st century nightmare. An addictive and frightening read." — Paul —

Notă biografică

BENJAMIN PERCY has won a Whiting Award, a Plimpton Prize, two Pushcart Prizes, an NEA fellowship, and the iHeartRadio Award for Best Scripted Podcast. He is the author of the novels The Ninth Metal, The Unfamiliar Garden, The Dark Net, The Dead Lands, Red Moon, and The Wilding; three story collections; and an essay collection, Thrill Me. He also writes Wolverine and X-Force for Marvel Comics. He lives in Minnesota with his family.

Descriere

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'One of the best Stephen King novels not written by the master himself' - New York Times

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The dark net is an online shadowland for criminals to operate anonymously, but when a demonic force begins to hack the minds of its users there is nowhere left to hide.

Twelve-year-old HANNAH has been fitted with a high-tech prosthetic that restores her sight, but can't understand why she can now see shadows surrounding certain people.

LELA, an emotionally shut-off, technophobic journalist stumbles onto a story nobody wants her to uncover. A story someone will kill to keep hidden.

A former evangelist, MIKE, suffers demons - figurative and literal - and keeps an arsenal of weapons stored in the basement of the homeless shelter he runs.

And DEREK is a hacker who believes himself a soldier, part of a cyber army dedicated to changing the world for the better.

With the virus spreading throughout the net and an ancient evil threatening to break lose on the real world, it falls to these strangers to stop the rising darkness.

THE DARK NET is a cracked-mirror version of the digital nightmare we already live in, a timely and wildly imaginative techno-thriller about the evil that lurks in real and virtual spaces, and the power of a united few to fight back.

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Praise for THE DARK NET

'THE DARK NET is a megawatt defibrillator to the reader's heart' - Dean Koontz

'An impressive, propulsive narrative velocity at work here' - Metro

'THE DARK NET kicked my ass with its deft mash-up of both blackhat hacker culture and black magic. A fast, fantastic, throat-punch of a read' - Chuck Wendig, New York Times bestselling author of Blackbirds and Zer0es