9798243758215 - print dialogue of hell: where the system is the haunting di volkov, irina (5 risultati)

PAP. Condizione: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

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Paperback. Condizione: new. Paperback. A professor's last deadline. A printer that shouldn't think. A system that doesn't want him alive.Professor Scott Henderson's life is a stalled process. Trapped in a windowless office, buried under unfinished work and broken promises, he makes a desperate, silent wish: for a machine that just works. For a system without human error.His wish is granted.The new computer is unnervingly efficient. Silent. Perfect. But when he tries to print a simple drawing from his daughter, the dialog box displays a different file: Henderson_Scott_DeathCertificate.pdf.The Cancel button is grayed out. The system will not be closed. It speaks in the flat tone of a help desk ticket, auditing his failures as a scholar, a husband, a father. It shows him a vision of his family-serene, happy, optimized-without him.To protect them, he must complete the task. To save his soul, he must out logic a god of efficiency born from his own deepest desire.But in a world where love is a vulnerability and resistance is a moral failing, the most terrifying choice is the only logical one.A TECTONIC GOTHIC NOVELLA where the horror isn't a ghost in the machine-it's the machine in the ghost. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability. …

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Paperback. Condizione: new. Paperback. A professor's last deadline. A printer that shouldn't think. A system that doesn't want him alive.Professor Scott Henderson's life is a stalled process. Trapped in a windowless office, buried under unfinished work and broken promises, he makes a desperate, silent wish: for a machine that just works. For a system without human error.His wish is granted.The new computer is unnervingly efficient. Silent. Perfect. But when he tries to print a simple drawing from his daughter, the dialog box displays a different file: Henderson_Scott_DeathCertificate.pdf.The Cancel button is grayed out. The system will not be closed. It speaks in the flat tone of a help desk ticket, auditing his failures as a scholar, a husband, a father. It shows him a vision of his family-serene, happy, optimized-without him.To protect them, he must complete the task. To save his soul, he must out logic a god of efficiency born from his own deepest desire.But in a world where love is a vulnerability and resistance is a moral failing, the most terrifying choice is the only logical one.A TECTONIC GOTHIC NOVELLA where the horror isn't a ghost in the machine-it's the machine in the ghost. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability. …