Human Software

<p><strong style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1); background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)>What happens when the system decides you're no longer needed?</strong></p><p></p><p>BETH WALTERS has kept Gerbach's logistics systems running through sheer stubbornness and too many sleepless nights. She knows where the bodies are buried - technically speaking.</p><p></p><p>CHRISSIE HEGARTY has flown in from New York with a mandate a deadline and very little patience for sentiment. She's done this before. She knows how it ends.</p><p></p><p>They are not enemies. Not yet.</p><p></p><p><strong>Think you know how the tech world works?</strong></p><p></p><p>Set in a decaying English port town Human Software is a sharp funny and quietly unsettling novel about ambition loyalty and what it costs to be human in a world increasingly run by machines.</p><p></p><p>Take a look behind the closed doors of corporate IT - the 3am callouts the pointless standups the executives who've never written a line of code making decisions that affect thousands of lives - Human Software is a rare novel that actually knows what it's talking about.</p><p></p><p>But you don't need to. The world of Sandport Kent is vividly real whether you've worked in tech or never touched a keyboard. This is ultimately a story about people - and the systems corporate and human that grind them down.</p><p></p><p>Gene Kim's The Phoenix Project meets Mike Judge's Office Space in Bill Forsyth's Local Hero.</p><p></p><p><strong style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1); background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)>Vivid world-building and well-rounded characters. I found myself completely hooked.</strong><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1); background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)> - RUSSELL McLEAN Emmy & BAFTA Award-Winning Producer Black Mirror</span></p><p></p><p><strong style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1); background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)>Freaked me out more than any Stephen King</strong><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1); background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)> - JEREMY MARKEY Rands Reviewer</span></p><p></p><p><strong style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1); background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)>A proper page-turner - part thriller part whodunnit part dystopian parable.</strong><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1); background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)> - CHARLES HUMBLE Tech Consultant & Journalist</span></p><p></p><p><strong style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1); background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)>Absolutely gripping! A must-read</strong><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1); background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)> - LOVDEEP PANNU CTO</span></p><p></p><p><strong style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1); background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)>SOFTWARE RUNS OUR WORLD. IT DOESN'T HAVE TO RULE OUR LIVES.</strong></p><p></p>