Run Program, Scott Meyer
Run Program, Scott Meyer
4 Rating(s)
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Run Program

Author: Scott Meyer

Narrator: Angela Dawe

Unabridged: 10 hr 7 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download (DRM Protected)

Published: 06/20/2017

Synopsis

From the author of the popular Magic 2.0 series comes the witty tale of a mischievous A.I. gone rogue.Al, a well-meaning but impish artificial intelligence, has the mind of a six-year-old and a penchant for tantrums. And the first one to discover just how much trouble Al could cause is Hope Takeda, the lab assistant in charge of educating and socializing him. Day care is a lot more difficult when your kid is an evolving and easily frightened A.I.When Al manages to access the Internet and escape the lab days before his official unveiling, Hope and her team embark on a mission to contain him—before he creates any real problems.Soon the NSA is on Al’s back, the US Army is fighting a brigade of mass-produced robots, and a wannabe cyberterrorist is looking to silence Al permanently. After months spent “raising” Al, Hope knows she’s running out of time—and she’s not sure she’ll be able to protect him. Will she manage to control the unruly A.I. and quell a global crisis, or will Al outsmart them once and for all?

About Scott Meyer

Scott Meyer has worked as a radio host, a stand-up comedian, an office worker, and a theme-park ride operator. (He held those jobs in the order they’re listed, which is probably the opposite of what you’d expect.) He has written for several video games and created the comic strip Basic Instructions, which ran online and in various alternative weekly papers across the country for nearly a decade. Scott is the author of the Magic 2.0 books and several other novels and comics collections. Scott and his wife live in Phoenix, Arizona, to be close to their cats.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Jane

4 solid stars for the audiobook as narrated by Angela Dawe Much like Scott Meyer's other work, this is playful and silly. In this case, an A.I. (named Al) that is being "raised" by a computer scientist (well, technically by her assistants), decides to run away. Like other Meyer stories, this story fe......more

Goodreads review by Alex

I like Scott Meyer, even some of his non-wizard books, but this one just didn't do it for me. The audiobook performance was very good though; Angela Dawe does some of the best male voices of any female narrator I've come across.......more

Goodreads review by Mark

Oh, this book is delightful. This is a ridiculous character drama wherein each character is exactly as imperfect and perfectly unlikeable as one could hope. Ostensibly, this is a story about an AI that breaks out and starts causing havoc, but it's really a story of all the people caught up in it and t......more

Goodreads review by Kim

This is the fifth Scott Meyer book I've read in the past couple of years and they always lighten my reading week. He writes hilarious dialogue and fills his books with a collection of idiosyncratic characters, some as real as your neighbor and others totally bizarre. Run Program deals with an artific......more

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