Deep State

Name: Deep State
Brand: Recorded Books
Availability: InStock
Author: Walter Jon Williams
ISBN: 9781470328221

Author: Walter Jon Williams

Series: Dagmar Shaw #2

Narrator: Jefferson Mays

Unabridged: 13 hr 9 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Recorded Books

Published: 12/07/2012

Categories: Fiction, Science Fiction, Action & Adventure, Suspense & Thriller

Synopsis

Walter Jon Williams has received nominations for the Hugo and Nebula Awards, as well as for almost every other major award in science fiction. The expansive tale Deep State follows Dagmar Shaw, who organizes vast, alternate-reality games with millions of players across the globe - all while revolution stirs in the city around her. When her friend offers her a gig of impossibly high stakes, she can't refuse, even if it means placing her own life on the line.

About Walter Jon Williams

Walter Jon Williams is the author of thirty volumes of fiction, in addition to works in film, television, comics, and the gaming field. Williams has appeared on the bestseller lists of the Times and the New York Times. He is a world traveler, scuba diver, and a black belt in Kenpo Karate. He has twice been awarded the Nebula Award.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Josh

This Is Not A Game was so good because it combined information technology and the internet 'hive mind' to form a high octane techno thriller that involved well defined characters and a plot which had some serious depth. Deep State, the second book to feature IT mogul Dagmar Shaw started off great th......more

Goodreads review by John Carter

Williams should be the most famous thriller writer in the world right now, with his novel about both popular uprisings in Islamic countries and gamification. Simple premise: what if the US government hired an alternate-reality games designer to astroturf a revolution? What could possibly go wrong? De......more

Goodreads review by Aylin

İlk kitabına hayran kalmıştım. Ama başarı, özgüvenini cahilce Körüklemiş. Bir yazarın ne olursa olsun çok iyi bilmeden bir ülkeyi iyi biliyormuscasina işlemesi bu sonucu doğuruyor. Konusu Türkiyede geçen Derin Devlet'te Türkleri arap gibi gösterip, saçma sapan, sanki kültüre çok hakimmiş gibi işlemi......more

Goodreads review by Lis

Dagmar Shaw is running an Augmented Reality Game, an ARG, in Turkey to promote the latest James Bond film, Stunrunner. She's not happy about being in Turkey, where a military junta has recently seized power, because she's had some seriously unpleasant experiences with military governments in the pas......more