{4.5\/5} “The feral was in danger. Executioners had registered its protoconscious activity. The feral was made up of life-support routines, though, and imbued with high levels of system permissions. It outran its executioners, ran traces and saw that routines lethal to its continued function were triggering all around — computational landmines, algorithmic hails of bullets. Another precious centisecond passed, while it marshaled resources and calculated what to do.”<\/p>\n
Up Against It<\/strong> by Laura J. Mixon aka M. J. Locke, published in 2011<\/p>\n Phocaea is a group of asteroids. It’s tough to do a prank there, with cameras recording all the time for its reality show. But Geoff and his friends manage to program some bugs to assemble into skeletons and dance around a bit. When an accident, or possibly a suicide, results in a bunch of disassembler bugs being released Geoff’s brother Carl is killed.<\/p>\n It’s about dealing with a crisis, the mob, and a new AI. It’s about what happens when you’re very good at your job but you get fired anyway.<\/p>\n With its delightful characters and storyline, another book in this setting would be welcome.<\/p>\n This is the 1st book I’ve read by Mixon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" {4.5\/5} “The feral was in danger. Executioners had registered its protoconscious activity. The feral was made up of life-support routines, though, and imbued with high levels of system permissions. It outran its executioners, ran traces and saw that routines lethal to its continued function were triggering all around — computational landmines, algorithmic hails of bullets. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[7,28,5,8],"class_list":["post-23070","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","tag-book","tag-novels","tag-review","tag-science-fiction"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23070","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23070"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23070\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23076,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23070\/revisions\/23076"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23070"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23070"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23070"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}