Human Software - a novel by Richard W. Bown

WELCOME TO SANDPORT

Meet Beth and Chrissie

Beth Walters keeps a failing logistics system running through night shifts while trying to hold her family life together.

Chrissie Hegarty arrives from America to make the company more efficient. Her AI overhaul will force both women to decide what progress is worth.

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Software runs our world. It doesn’t rule our lives

When a company’s AI overhaul threatens a town’s livelihoods, how far will its people go to protect one another?

In Sandport, software engineer Beth Walters keeps a failing logistics system running through punishing night shifts.

Chrissie Hegarty arrives from America with a sweeping AI overhaul that could make Beth and her colleagues redundant. Then a data leak and a murder investigation reveal a plan to use AI to sabotage the company’s own systems and frame its employees. Beth and Chrissie must decide what they owe the company — and the people caught in its plans.

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306 pages · ISBN 9789083469225

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Paperback copy of the earlier Human Software edition with its original cover

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