False Value - Outside of a Dog

hardcover, 304 pages

English language

Published Feb. 25, 2020 by DAW.

ISBN:: 978-0-7564-1646-1
OCLC Number:: 1005187602

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.

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.

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spaetz@bookwyrm.social reviewed False Value by Ben Aaronovitch (Rivers of London, #8)

nice but not spectacular

3 stars

Being a fan of Peter Grant, this book is ok. It contains some humour and wittiness, but the showdown and solution were ... mmmh .. ok.

Bev's role is quite reduced to a twin baby breading machine, and Nightingale seems to have emotionally already quit job.

Being a fan of Peter Grant, this book is ok. It contains some humour and wittiness, but the showdown and solution were ... mmmh .. ok.

Bev's role is quite reduced to a twin baby breading machine, and Nightingale seems to have emotionally already quit job.

Alien Sunset

rated it

August 19