In the near future, if Vegas games are ingeniously scam-proof, then the heists have to be too, in this imaginative and whip-smart story by the New York Times bestselling author of The Martian.
An IT whiz at the Babylon Casino is enlisted to upgrade security for the game of keno and its random-number generator. The new quantum computer system is foolproof. But someone on the inside is no fool. For once the odds may not favour the house-unless human ingenuity isn't entirely a thing of the past.
Forward, a collection of six stories of the near and far future from out-of-this-world authors. Each piece can be read or listened to in a single thought-provoking sitting.
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(Amazon Original Stories, 17 September 2019, 28 pages, ebook, borrowed from @AmazonKindle #PrimeReading)
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Weir's novel The Martian is fricking amazing, one of my best reads last year. So I had high hopes for this story. Unfortunately, they were dashed, smashed to bleeding smithereens on some sharp rocks. I could have given up this story after a couple of pages. I forced myself to read on. Maybe the story will get better? Pretty please? The story was just too dry and dull, utterly tedious. The first half of the story was a ballad to computer geeks and the second half of the story went nowhere. The characters were cold and distant and not in a good way. The story was dull. I cannot think of one redeeming quality.
