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Cyber Rogues: The Two Faces of Tomorrow / Realtime Interrupt
Cyber Rogues The Two Faces of Tomorrow / Realtime Interrupt Author:James P Hogan Skynet meets The Matrix in two novels from New York Times bestselling author and legendary science fiction storyteller, James Hogan, a science fiction writer in the grand tradition, combining informed and accurate speculation from the cutting edge of science and technology with suspenseful story-telling and living, breathing characters. Re... more »aders who like their science hard will find these two novels exciting and excellent reading.
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The Two Faces of Tomorrow (1979) / novel by James P. Hogan (464pages): Midway through the 21st century, an integrated global computer network manages much of the world's affairs. A proposed major software upgrade - an artificial intelligence - will give the system an unprecedented degree of independent decision-making, but serious questions are raised in regard to how much control can safely be given to a non-human intelligence. In order to more fully assess the system, a new space-station habitat - a world in miniature - is developed for deployment of the fully operational system, named Spartacus. This mini-world can then be "attacked" in a series of escalating tests to assess the system's responses and capabilities. If Spartacus gets out of hand, the system can be shut down and the station destroyed... unless Spartacus decides to take matters into its own hands and take the fight to Earth.
Realtime Interrupt (1995) / novel by James P. Hogan: Awakening in a hospital with no memory of his past, Joe Corrigan learns that he is the creator and test subject for the failed Oz computer project, which has trapped Joe in an irreversible and terrifying life simulation program.