Reconfigure by Ian Hughes, aka Epredator, is an interesting sci-fi cyber thriller that takes you on a fascinating ride. What if you can change or do impossible things in the real world with a few commands, as if you were in a computer program or a video game? What would you do? In Reconfigure, super programmer Roisin Kincade finds out the complications and consequences of having this ability when a mysterious Twitter user replies to a tweet she didn't mean to send out to the public. She discovers a type of interface that allows her to reconfigure things around her using programming language. Of course, as a true blue geek and hacker, she starts tinkering with it, building on it and experimenting with it in the real world. The "anomalies" she causes in the real world attract the attention of a powerful secret organization that is hell bent on bringing her in and getting access to the tech. Roisin finds herself running for her life and trying to find a way out of the dangerous situation she has somehow configured herself in.

Reconfigure has such an intriguing plot. What if there was a technology that allows you to alter or edit the world by typing in commands or instructions on some kind of interface? I'd say this is an idea that most, if not all, techy, geeky, gaming and/or sci-fi loving folks have probably thought about at one point in their lives, and Ian Hughes has given us an exciting story about that very concept. The book gets quite technical and uses a whole of lot of programming or scientific language that readers without that background or knowledge may find difficult to follow, but I find that it just adds to the overall flow and feel of the novel. I admit I had a hard time following the technical stuff myself, but it wasn't that hard to get sucked into the story once things start to get really exciting and dangerous for the protagonist Roisin who is a spunky and likeable character. Reconfigure has a lot of cool elements that fans of sci fi, cyber or techno thrillers will enjoy.

Reconfigure by Ian Hughes is an amazing science fiction novel where a young and talented techie, cleaning up a file system in her computer after a long coding session, makes a series of mistakes. She ends up sending a tweet to the world and unexpectedly receives an automated Direct Message. Roisin Kindcade subsequently finds herself using a game engine and talking to a new system that gives her the dangerous possibility to reconfigure and change anything by the swipe of her hand - not the virtual worlds or game codes, but the actual real world. When this anomaly is noticed, she becomes the target of unknown and powerful parties who want to control the world themselves. Can she find a way to outsmart them?

Nominated in the Independent Author Network, Reconfigure is a chilling futuristic novel that will send shivers down the reader’s spine. Imagine a world where everything in it can be reconfigured by a simple swipe of the hand on the computer. Author Ian Hughes, also known as Epredator in the so called Second Life Community, creates a scenario that draws conclusions from the prevailing global philosophy and the real risks that it presents. Obviously the author is highly knowledgeable about the technological world, and his story becomes a real possibility and it is mind blowing. Although reading the first few chapters can be quite a laborious effort, especially for non-techie readers, it is all worth it in the end. But for the techie savvy, this book should be an exceedingly interesting read!