Thursday, 24 July 2014

BOOK OF THE DAY: CyberStorm by Matthew Mather




BOOK DESCRIPTION

Now in development for a major motion picture by 20th Century Fox.


Mike Mitchell, an average New Yorker already struggling to keep his family together, suddenly finds himself fighting just to keep them alive when a bizarre string of disasters starts tearing apart the world around them. The Internet goes down. A bird-flu epidemic starts raging. Rumors spread that it's all part of a coordinated foreign attack. And then the power goes out as a monster snowstorm plunges New York into frozen darkness, becoming a wintry tomb where nothing is what it seems...and no one can be trusted...

"As a member of the Military that does 'cyber' for his job, finally we see a novel that shows how dangerous our transition to an interconnected infrastructure will become without proper safeguards...I couldn't put down!" - Karic Allegra, Joint Interoperability Command, US NAVY

What caused it? Who caused it? How can it be stopped? These questions become unimportant as Mike's family struggles to survive amid millions of people in the doomed metropolis.

"A chilling prophecy...well written, a must read for any fan of good fiction." - Ian Peterson, Official Book Review, Sci-Fi Readers


CyberStorm is a modern-day, edge-of-your-seat thriller, all the more frightening because it could happen tomorrow...

AUTHOR BIO
 




Matthew is the best-selling author of CyberStorm and the six-part hit series Atopia Chronicles. He is also a leading member of the world's cybersecurity community who started out his career working at the McGill Center for Intelligent Machines. He went on to found one of the first tactile interface companies, which became the world leader in its field, as well as creating a major award-winning brain training video game. In between he's worked in a variety of start-ups,everything from computational nanotechnology to electronic health records, weather prediction systems to genomics, and even social intelligence research. His writing credits include #1 best-selling Atopia Chronicles and CyberStorm novels. He spends his time between Charlotte, NC, and Montreal, QC, hanging out with his bright and beautiful girlfriend Julie and their three dogs and a cat.


REVIEWS
5.0 out of 5 stars Best "collapse of society" book I have read in a long time March 13, 2013
By Amazon Customer

Format:Kindle Edition|Verified Purchase

I have recently been on an "End of the World" binge (zombies, EMP, nuclear, disease, etc) and was getting a bit fed up with the genre. This book has re-kindled (pun intended) my interest and left me wanting more. It just seems a lot more realistic then other books in this category because I find the pace/speed of events and descriptions of the societal breakdown to be a lot more plausible. Without adding too many spoilers, I find that there is just a good mix of cyberwar, confusion, collapse and hope. All of this with a bit of violence and desperation thrown in for good measure. I started caring (and sometimes hating) many of the mian characters in this book. It is a very good, quick read for anybody interested in the genre in addition to being a way above average read for anybody else.
 
5.0 out of 5 stars Couldn't put the book down! March 13, 2013

By Adi Sagi 

Format:Kindle Edition|Verified Purchase

After reading Matthew Mather's Atopia, I was anxiously waiting for his new book, and I wasn't disappointed!
This book is about cyber warfare. It illustrates in a very realistic way, what an "all out" cyber warfare can cause, and what can happen when it crosses from cyber into the real world.
How would your life look, if suddenly you didn't have Facebook?
...
How would your life look if the Internet would stop working?
...
Or... If electricity would stop altogether?
I can tell you that when I did put the book down, it really made me think of how MY world would look like if half the things that could happen would happen. It's a real eye-opener.
Anyone who likes Mather's writing would probably like this one.
Anyone who is interested in cyber would definitely like this one.
Again, a hard book to put down, and this one really makes you think of your world, and how fragile it could become in the right (or wrong...) circumstances.



OTHER WORKS

The Atopia Chronicles (Atopia series)

The Dystopia Chronicles (Atopia series)

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