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Daniel Suarez | |
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 Suarez in 2010 | |
| Born | December 21, 1964 |
| Pen name | Leinad Zeraus |
| Occupation | Novelist |
| Nationality | American |
| Genre | Science fiction |
| Literary movement | Techno-thriller, Postcyberpunk |
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Daniel Suarez (born December 21, 1964) [1] is an American novelist, writing principally in the science fiction and techno-thriller genres. He initially published under the pseudonym Leinad Zeraus [2] (his name spelled backwards).
Suarez career as an author began with a pair of techno-thriller novels. The first novel, Daemon , was self-published under his own company, Verdugo Press, in late 2006. It was later picked up by the major publishing house Dutton and re-released in January 2009. His follow-up book Freedom™ was released in January 2010. The Wall Street Journal reported that Walter F. Parkes, who produced the 1983 film WarGames , had optioned the film rights to Daemon with Paramount Pictures in 2009, [3] but the rights likely reverted to Suarez in December 2012. [4]
Suarez announced in November 2011 that he was writing his third novel, "which deals with autonomous drones and next-gen, anonymous warfare" (via his Google Plus account). [5] [ full citation needed ] That novel, Kill Decision , was released on July 19, 2012.[ citation needed ] His next book, Influx, was released on February 20, 2014. [6] Influx won the 2015 Prometheus Award. [7] His fifth book, Change Agent, was released on April 18, 2017 [8] and uses CRISPR as its theme. [9] His most recent novel, Critical Mass (2023), deals with the near future effects of asteroid mining and the privatization of space, and is the second part of a trilogy that started with Delta-v (2019). [10] [ full citation needed ]Critical Mass awarded Suarez his second Prometheus Award. [11]
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