This Hardcover Book item from Night Candy was reviewed on 12-Jun-2008.
Search ISBN:0970365225 offer from Abebooks or used books from Alibris. The Minerva Virus Reference Book. Classifications : Computer Science Artificial Intelligence Circuitry Human-Computer Interaction Information Theory Modeling & Simulation Research Software Engineering Systems Analysis & Design Computers & Internet Subj . Click the following link to view the cover of The Minerva Virus. Related topics: Computer Science. Circuitry. Information Theory. Research. Subjects. Books. Adventure. Science Fiction. Subjects. Books. requestid: 96685515-7821-46a6-af9b-e37db5b1f4e0
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1) Hardcover Book The Minerva Virus by Night Candy. Cool plot, clever ideas. It really makes you think.
Minor nits: the characters were a bit cliched, and the ending doesn´t really satisfy.¤ 2) Hardcover Book The Minerva Virus by Night Candy. A new form of life is unleashed in the depth of the Internet: its only evidence a form of computer virus which humans think simply annoying. It´s more than just a virus, however: it can evolve, and it races across the internet starting a plague across network which creates virus offshoots and a digital war during which Goddess Minerva is born... if it´s fast-paced technological thrillers which thrill you, MINERVA VIRUS is for you.
Diane C. Donovan, Editor
California Bookwatch
¤ 3) Hardcover Book The Minerva Virus by Night Candy. He announced last year to his hacking peers that he had an IDEA for a supervirus like none ever seen hit the Internet. Over the next 365 days, Jupiter works on Project Minerva and now feeling more like Zeus as he launches his Goddess on a suspecting world.
In San Jose First Bit Protection computer-virus security expert Quinton Grant and the President´s daughter biochemist Stephanie Daniels realize separately that the latest supervirus Minerva is more powerful than even MyDoom and doing something never seen before. It is changing into something else. If the evolution continues, Minerva will affirm Darwin´s survival of the fittest theory as an independent sentient Internet essence that could devastate the information age and send humanity back into CHAOS. Minerva lives simultaneously in every computer in the world. She controls anything that depends on computer technology. As leaders become frightened over their loss of power, Minerva vows to serve all of mankind. While Quinton and Stephanie team up to prevent Minerva from succeeding others try to kill the courageous pair.
THE MINERVA VIRUS is a great hi tech thriller that grips the audience from Jupiter´s first email and accelerates from there as Minerva evolves while opponents rally to stop her and others to protect her (as always the world is divided between the haves and have-nots). The lead human couple is a fascinating pairing of brilliant people as Quinton works anti-virus remedies and Stephanie conducts research into artificial intelligence; each admire the creation and have doubts about stopping Minerva, who may be just the thing for the better good of all humanity though they also fear Lord Action´s warning that "Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely"; Minerva is absolute power.
Harriet Klausner
¤ 4) Hardcover Book The Minerva Virus by Night Candy. I just picked up this book on a whim, as the synopsis reminded me of the other two books. Once I started, I wasn´t able to put it down until I finished it several hours later. An amazing read!¤ 5) Hardcover Book The Minerva Virus by Night Candy. Thinking that Brian Schuster´s debut novel was just another SciFi thriller, this reader could not have been more wrong in that dismissal. Picking up THE MINERVA VIRUS is hazardous to your time as once started, it is nearly impossible to put it down - it is just that well written!
For those whose computers are integral with both business and personal lives this story about the worst nightmare of computer virus/worm ideas will be fascinating reading. Brian Shuster is so well versed in computer technology that his unraveling of this tale of terror feels like the original Orson Welles radio broadcast of War of the Worlds, taking the public who had grown dependent on the radio news by shock as though the incident were really happening at that moment: panic throughout the country. That is just how tightly scripted is Shuster´s writing. He adds to this luster of fear the technique of composing parts of the novel as Instant Messaging, emails, blogs etc all of which will feel completely credible to the computer generation.
For those of us who use the computer but have limited knowledge about the potential threats and harm that viruses and worms can do, information passively absorbed when passed on to us by our Security devices, then this novel will not only succeed as a suspense thriller, but also will serve to educate us to a higher appreciation of the power of the Pandora´s Box that the computer discovery has become. Shuster writes so clearly that he leaves no one behind no matter how knowledgeable or how insecure the individual reader might be.
The other aspect of Shuster´s mutating Minerva Virus story that shows the writer has even more knowledge than technical information is the introduction of biochemistry and genetic manipulation, with all the permutations that ´bit´ suggests. And to be completely thorough in having a story really terrify us he includes the manner in which government can not only become involved in the mire of viral destruction or invasion of hard drives, but can also enter the manipulation and influence possible world outcomes.
The actual details of the plot are well explained on the product page. But what is not explained is that in addition to a unique and truly frightening idea for a story, Shuster writes so well that the characters involved are wholly credible and well integrated into the development of the novel - this coming from a reader who is not particularly keen on Science Fiction books. THE MINERVA VIRUS goes beyond SciFi and becomes simply a fine read, one that is truly a page turner in the best sense of the term. Brian Shuster has introduced a whole new genre of writing and with the evidence in this first novel, he has a lot more to say. Recommended reading for all types of fiction lovers. Grady Harp, February 06¤ 6) Hardcover Book The Minerva Virus by Night Candy. In the depths of the internet, a new form of life is unleashed. Silent and invisible, the only hint of its existence is an ordinary-seeming computer virus, which the human race regards as a mere nuisance. But this virus is unlike anything mankind has seen before . . . this virus can evolve! As it explodes across the internet, a new plague begins to take control of the global communications network. A secret battle rages within computers around the world, as different strains of the virus compete for resources. With most humans still blissfully unaware of the danger, the digital life undergoes a breakthrough. Just as biological evolution leapt forward when single-celled organisms evolved into multi-cellular ones, a beneficial mutation allows one strain of the virus to become “multi-computer.” At the speed of light, billions of computers snap together to form a massive digital brain, and the Goddess Minerva is born. And she is powerful. Living within their computers, she begins to know mankind intimately. She learns the human´s strengths and weaknesses - and she understands the serious threat that they pose to her very survival. Visit mankind´s struggle against the most powerful force it has ever encountered, as humans come face-to-face with the offspring of their own technology in The Minerva Virus.¤ Page Updated: Robert N. Goolsby, 10-Jul-2008, 09703652259780970365224, 250-SYB-8 
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