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When Earth is threatened by a deadly plague, a young man enters a virtual world to find the key to humanity's survival. Will he find it in time? A man-made, nanotech plague has ravaged America's heartland and will soon spread to the rest of the world. Our only salvation might be found in an unlikely place: an advanced computer system housing a hundred virtual worlds, each one a replica of Earth and populated by billions of digital "people" who have no idea that they are only programs, living simulated lives, and secretly monitored for new technology that could save us all. This is Cyberdrome. When the son of the company's founder is called in after one of his programs is used to attack Cyberdrome, Alek Grey is shocked to learn that both his father and ex-fiancée have become trapped in neural interface with the system. What's even more concerning is that the reason for the lockdown might be the emergence of a smarter-than-human intelligence in one of those hundred worlds, an intelligence that seems to want out! Alek knows of only one way to rescue the people he loves, but will he jeopardize the rest of humanity to save them?… (more)
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In the not-so-distant future, a Nevada-based Think Tank of scientists has found a unique method of developing ground-breaking technology. They created a digital universe called Cyberdrome containing hundreds of simulated human worlds, each of which has the potential for discovering revolutionary technologies which don’t exist in the real world. The inhabitants of these worlds have no idea that they are only programs, living simulated lives and observed by scientists from the Nevada corporation biologically interfaced with their universe.
When a rogue virus gets past the security firewalls, wreaking havoc to the program and trapping about forty humans interfaced with Cyberdrome, the corporation leaders bring in Alek Grey, an cyber-security expert. Alek is not only the son of Matthew Grey, the resident genius of Cyberdrome who is currently trapped in the program, but he is also the creator of the Cyberphage, the program which inserted the attack virus after it was stolen from Alek himself.
Alek enters Cyberdrome with a nearly impossible mission: repair the damage done by his own digital creation, neutralize the threat posed by a super-intelligence that may have evolved artificially within the system, back up a security team whose initial mission has gone awry, rescue his father, his ex-fiancee and a few dozen other human minds trapped in the program—and oh, yeah, figure out who was behind the attack on Cyberdrome in the first place.
A riveting adventure which reminds me of a technologically updated version of the original Foundation Trilogy by Isaac Asimov, Cyberdrome is just perfect for science fiction fans of all types. And if you are a techie, you’ll probably like it even more than I did!