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A carregar... False Value (Rivers of London) (edição 2021)por Ben Aaronovitch (Autor)
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Adira ao LibraryThing para descobrir se irá gostar deste livro. Ainda não há conversas na Discussão sobre este livro. It's great how Aaronovitch has kept his character, Peter Grant, maturing throughout the series. Long gone is the diffident Cockney lad who hardly knew how to manufacture a were light without burning the place down. He still works hard at his magic spells but he's up to doing fourth order spells on the fly now. And he's about to become a father! As this book starts out we see Peter going for a job interview as a security person at a technology company having been dismissed from the London police force. Fortunately, it only takes a couple of chapters to learn that Peter is undercover. It all started with a theft of a piece of music for a fairground steam organ that Peter had investigated. The music was about Ada Lovelace, daughter of Lord Byron and perhaps one of the first computer programmers. The music was meant for an engine that might have been invented by Charles Babbage. It is now suspected that Terrence Skinner, owner of the Serious Cybernetics Company, has his hands on that machine and is holding it in his company's building in London. So, Peter is tasked to find out if it exists and what Skinner might be planning to do with it. As Peter gets deeper into the geek culture he finds that other parties may be after the same thing and he believes that Skinner may be planning to develop a genuine working artificial intelligence. If he succeeds then what would that mean for mankind and the planet? Peter and the rest of the crew don't really want to find out which means finding the mechanism and taking it out of Skinner's control. Now that Peter is living with Beverley, River Goddess, and soon to be mother of his child, he has other responsibilities. He seems to be able to handle them, along with his police responsibilities. sem críticas | adicionar uma crítica
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Peter Grant is facing fatherhood, and an uncertain future, with equal amounts of panic and enthusiasm. Rather than sit around, he takes a job with émigré Silicon Valley tech genius Terrence Skinner's brand new London start up - the Serious Cybernetics Company. Drawn into the orbit of Old Street's famous "silicon roundabout", Peter must learn how to blend in with people who are both civilians and geekier than he is. Compared to his last job, Peter thinks it should be a doddle. But magic is not finished with Mama Grant's favourite son. Because Terrence Skinner has a secret hidden in the bowels of the SCC. A technology that stretches back to Ada Lovelace and Charles Babbage, and forward to the future of artificial intelligence. A secret that is just as magical as it technological - and just as dangerous. Não foram encontradas descrições de bibliotecas. |
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The cover of my library copy does indeed glow in the dark, though. That's cool. ( )