The Path
About this book
A system error is not the end of the world. Or maybe it is…
It’s called The System—the all-knowing, all-seeing, all-doing computer program that runs America. From when you wake, to the work you do, to the weather you want, The System is, quite simply, everything.
Simon Bank knows this better than most. His job is to work with the System's artificial intelligence, making it fit more perfectly into human society so that it can keep the country running smoothly. But when The System suddenly becomes a threat to this blissful existence, Simon is forced to reassess everything he thought he knew. His only hope is to rely on intellect and instincts he didn't know he had, and on new friends—not all of them human—to save himself and everyone else. And he doesn't have much time.
Because The System might not be malfunctioning. It might just be getting ready for something else that is to come.
Something much worse…
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Contents
- Chapter 1. An Upside-down Way of Looking at the System
- Chapter 2. I Get Skewered by My Own Program
- Chapter 3. What I Thought Had Gone Wrong, Hadn’t
- Chapter 4. The Scene of the Crime—Mine and His
- Chapter 5. I Was Sure the Baby Was Going to Get Older
- Chapter 6. A Long Way Down—Or Was That Up?
- Chapter 7. What I Was Expecting … Or, What Was I Expecting?
- Chapter 8. And Away We Go …
- Chapter 9. Promise It Anything But Give It Hope
- Chapter 10. Spankin’ the Babe
- Chapter 11. Am I a Hero? Cramer’s Eyes Don’t Lie
- Chapter 12. Escape
- Chapter 13. My Fault Becomes His Fault
- Chapter 14. A Secret Shared Is a Secret Halved
- Chapter 15. The Rats
- Chapter 16. A Day At the Races
- Chapter 17. Waiting For Godot, Cuba Style
- Chapter 18. Romulus Becomes Romula
- Chapter 19. Too Many Life Forms
- Chapter 20. Damn the Torpedoes …
- Chapter 21. Finding Purpose and Home
- Chapter 22. Tag, We’re It
- Glossary
