Doom

Unlike "Cyberstorm", which required epic suspension of disbelief and deployed blunt force trauma style irony (real irony, not Alanis Morissette Canadian Irony), Matthew Mather's "Darknet" is a believable (mostly) and terrifying story.

He doesn't skip directly to the science guy AI singularity; he explores the far more plausible scenario of autonomous corporations programmed with Ferengi-ish profit uber alles bylaws. Now, the story gets a little occupy-ish (this is what happens when corporations are people and people are software) and a tad capitalism-is-scary-and-must-be-fettered-ish. We even read of the cocaine fueled musings of hedge fund manager Chase Rockwell (I know, right?). But ignore all of that and consider the most likely cause of robocalamity and, well...."Darknet".

We're now accepting applications for oat fieldhands and horse-grooms. Unfortunately for all y'all, the stall mucker and horse jester positions are full. 'course, if you're interested, there's a slot for assistant horse jester, but opportunities for advancement are limited, severely so.