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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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Human Software book cover

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

The Systems are Human

In Sandport, an ambitious AI overhaul puts livelihoods and a fragile logistics network under pressure. The people behind the systems have more at stake than the boardroom realises.

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The illustrated map is included in both editions.

Current cover of Human Software by Richard W. Bown
Illustrated map of Kent and the Isle of Thanet

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£10.99 / €11.99 / $12.99

306 pages · ISBN 9789083469225

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Earlier edition · limited stock
Paperback copy of the earlier Human Software edition with its original cover

A limited number of earlier paperbacks with the original cover are available directly from Richard. Get in touch through the social links in the footer if you’d prefer one.