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Reviewed by Asher Syed for Readers' Favorite
In the science fiction thriller Who Nuked Silicon Valley? by Mike Donoghue, David Erdogan leads a tech firm under the control of his AI superior, Big Al, enduring blackmail and other attacks on his company. Meanwhile, Katie is a hacker who steals AI memories to sell on the black market. Her latest target is connected to a major terrorist attack in Silicon Valley years earlier. The stolen memory belongs to Livingstone1813, a researcher who studies human and AI interactions. This memory contains crucial information about an effort to amend the constitution to grant AIs formal legal recognition, and recovering it is essential to uncover the political and technological forces driving the movement, the ethical debates it raises, and the potential consequences for the status of artificial intelligence.
Mike Donoghue’s Who Nuked Silicon Valley? brilliantly imagines a future where technological elements fuel a believable societal evolution, using speculative elements to reflect on contemporary issues like surveillance, autonomous vehicles, and civil rights. In all this, Katie emerges as a standout character, especially in the games she plays with kids, but also because we see how her sharp examination of Livingstone’s claims demonstrates the difficulty of separating fact from manipulation in a world full of misinformation. Donoghue is incredibly adept at blending tech with wit, using informal speech, playful banter, and humorous analogies to make the technical material approachable and the characters authentic. Overall, this is an intelligent, highly entertaining read—although I have issues with pets not being allowed in space—but otherwise, I'm all in, and you will be too. Very highly recommended.
