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Reviewed by Jamie Michele for Readers' Favorite
MIR.EXE by D.K. Dillenback follows Echo Kinyata, who works at a Cryosaga-controlled port in a future Alaska where global power depends on a proprietary energy material. His role links his nervous system directly to corporate logistics infrastructure, binding his health to uninterrupted compliance. After a quiet request tied to his estranged wife Lyra, Echo intercepts a cargo container that places him outside corporate protection. The theft draws attention from Cryosaga security, local police units, private contractors, insurgent groups, and former allies who each believe control of the data will decide what comes next. As pressure mounts, Echo moves through surveillance systems, underground networks, and fractured communities while trying to understand what Lyra set in motion. The story tracks Echo as he becomes the sole point of access to information capable of reshaping political authority, economic dependence, and the future of the region.
D.K. Dillenback’s MIR.EXE is a supremely ambitious science fiction novel that's well written, putting corporate power, human agency, and machine logic inside a sharply imagined future. The title refers to an executable file with the Cyrillic word for peace or world, a loaded name applied to a quantum malware artifact. I love being in near future Alaska. Dillenback works in its well-known ports as part of the landscape, with container yards lit by automated cranes and security drones, which feel distinctly cinematic. Echo is a main character you want to root for, and some real twists in his arc are brilliant. Dillenback’s attention is equally applied to ancillary characters. Nixie starts as a mixed bag, but her commitment to what is right and the people of South Angst is heartening. Hierarchy is rigid and visible, from Cryosaga’s executive enclaves to informal resistance cells, and daily life reflects surveillance pressure and modified bodies. Overall, this is a book that ends with the probability of more to come, and I look forward to it.
