“With allusions to recent computer trials in the news, at least in the mind of this reviewer, this novel serves more as a dire warning of a future we may unwittingly be creating each day as we turn more and more control of our lives over to computer systems. While the read is enjoyable and fast, the issues this novel raises deserve serious consideration before the next power blackout or other disaster-man made or otherwise. ”
Kevin R. Tipple, Reviewer, Blue Iris Journal
Everything About Futuristic Thrillers and Hard Science Fiction
PeaceMaker and Unholy Domain expose a shocking future
only a decade or two away.
*****
Visionary Ideas with a dash of romance and humor!
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As a reader of my website, I have an special offer that I hope you will find interesting. Unholy Domain was published April 2 and I'm spending a great deal of time marketing. The most important thing for a relatively new author like me is to get lots of reader reviews on Amazon and other booksellers. Otherwise, readers will pass on Unholy Domain and buy a book by a famous author. So I would really appreciate it if you would post a review of Unholy Domain on Amazon or another online bookseller.
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Interview with Fascinating Authors
I was recently interviewed by Penny Sansevieri for the Fascinating Authors podcast site. In addition to Unholy Domain, we covered a range of topics including Second Life, religious violence, and emerging technology issues. Listen to the podcast --- it was fun to do and I believe you will enjoy it.
Science Fiction Enters a Golden Age
We live in a wonderful age. Heinlein, Asimov and Clarke would have given anything to experience the brave new world just coming into focus. Robotics, artificial intelligence, nanotechnology, genetics, and more — yes, it’s all coming true, the wonders science fiction writers have imagined for all these many decades... more
Immortality: Is it Possible?
I’m not sure I would want to live forever, even if I could. Immortality, it just doesn’t seem right, somehow. Would I want additional years? Absolutely, as long as the quality of life was there.
Start thinking about these issues, especially you folks under thirty. You will have decisions to face for yourself and your children.
Scientists are working hard to increase the human life span. And they are making progress in a number of fields. I’m not writing a research paper, but here are a few snippets of exciting advances....more
UNHOLY DOMAIN
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David Brown, a brilliant but troubled young man raised in the dark shadow of his long-dead father, a software genius who unleashed a computer virus that murdered millions.
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The Domain, a secret society of technologists developing Sentinel, an artificial intelligence with the ability to take humanity to the next stage of evolution.
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The Army of God, a cult of fanatics within a renegade church, murdering anyone they consider a technologist.
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When David receives a decade-old email that indicates his father may have been framed, he plunges into a gut-wrenching race with the real killers to discover the truth about his father … and himself.
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A deliberately staged IT catastrophe leaves the world sunk into depression and the US government ineffectual. The secretive and powerful Domain, using organized crime to spread its technology, seeks to take humankind to the next level of evolution through artificial intelligence. The fanatical Army of God battles to stop them. Dan Ronco’s fast-paced techno-thriller depicts a world of violent extremes, where religious terrorists and visionaries of technology fight for supreme power.
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"UNHOLY DOMAIN is an entertaining futuristic cautionary thriller."
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Bestselling author Piers Anthony
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endorses Unholy Domain
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"Another fast-action story of vicious extremes, as a powerful religious cult takes on a sophisticated tech outfit. Each means to destroy the other and rule the world, and neither is scrupulous about the means. The protagonist is caught precariously between the two. Top rate adventure sparkling with ideas."
Bestselling author Scott Nicholson
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puts Dan Ronco on a par with
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William Gibson and Robert Sawyer
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"A chilling technothriller. Dan Ronco not only
understands evolving technology, but the social forces
that see it as either good or evil. What's scary is
not that this might happen in the future...but that it
is already happening. Dan Ronco is a social visionary on a
par with William Gibson and Robert Sawyer."
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More praise from R. Douglas Weber
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author of Solomon's Key: The CODIS Project
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"Unholy Domain tackles the age-old battle of scientific enlightenment and reason vs. religious fanaticism. In a future world ravaged by technology two factions fight for supremacy. Dan Ronco tells a tale that is unique, provocative, and engrossing while maintaining enough slam-bang action to keep you turning the pages. It reads like a cross between Blade Runner and Angels and Demons."
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Simon Wood, the Anthony Award winning author
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of Paying the Piper compares Dan Ronco
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to Philip K. Dick
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"Dan Ronco fills the gap left by Philip K. Dick with Unholy Domain."
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Reviewed by Booklist Magazine
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"Thought-provoking --- a solid futuristic thriller."
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Reviewed by Publishers Weekly
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"Interesting --- second volume in a proposed trilogy"
"PeaceMaker is exciting, violent, thoughtful
and unfortunately, true to life
… a powerhouse of computer adventure "
--- Piers Anthony
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PeaceMaker, a devastating computer virus designed to crash global systems.
Dianne Morgan, a woman out to gain her revenge, no matter what the cost.
Ray Brown, a man willing to go the ultimate distance to stop her.
The Internet, the world and a man's soul all hang in the balance.
Hello, and welcome to my passion --- near-future thrillers. PeaceMaker, my first novel, was released by Winterwolf Publishing in August, 2004 and Unholy Domain will be released by Kunati Publishing in Spring 2008. Although still available at Amazon and many bookstores, PeaceMaker will appear on this website as a serial novel. You can now read the complete story. If you’d like to begin reading, just pull up PeaceMaker/Prologue and jump in. free of charge.
Also wanted to let you know that I recently began a new book giveaway. Reader recommendations are very important to a new author like me, so I will send a free copy of Unholy Domain to the first five readers who agree to post a review of Unholy Domain to Amazon or another online bookseller.
