"Gagne, Stefan - Haven Borne" - читать интересную книгу автора (Gagne Stefan)

unearthed his backup disk and ran it.

This takes place before the FWLS, shortly after the birth of VOSNet. It
will forever change the universe, throwing another species into the fray...

*

A far, far time from now in a galaxy now so long, long away, there
were four Space Patrollers who had a habit of getting into trouble. Weird
trouble. Dangerous trouble. Strange trouble. The kind of trouble that makes
for very fat books reviewers seem to enjoy.

This is not their story.

Instead, it is the story of a person, or rather a faux persona, who
one of the Patrollers happened to have met in a simulation of an old BBC
science fiction show. It is the story of that person and what became of
him, or it, or whatever you might call an artifical intelligence.

It is a story that doesn't take place in reality as we know it, but a
very mediocre simulation thereof. It is a story of a lifeform bound to that
simulation, and the problems inherent in being tied down to such a
system...











-=| HB |=-

Living with yourself when you know you don't technically exist is a
pretty hard thing to do.

Number Two groaned as his alarm clock program rang out with poorly
digitized bell noises, and knocked it across the room. The clock didn't
break; the Macroware complex removed the object self-destruction routines
after a massive fight in the virtual cafeteria resulted in the breakage of
twenty plates and sixteen glasses. The techie staff had to spend several
hours picking the bits out of the system and disposing of them.

Number Two didn't really need to sleep, but he was programmed to
think he needed to. He was the only person who slept in Macroware's local
system on VOSnet -- the Virtual Operating System Network, linking all
VOS-running computers to each other. The other workers would simply jack