Randomize
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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 favor the house—unless human ingenuity isn’t entirely a thing of the past.
Andy Weir’s Randomize is part of 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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Forward Collection is a 8-book series with 6 primary works first released in 2019 with contributions by Veronica Roth, Blake Crouch, and N.K. Jemisin.
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Well, that was kind of bad. I have read & liked a couple of short pieces by this author before, so I'm really surprised. I did not like any of the characters and couldn't sympathize with their goals.
The quantum-computing content was explained well enough for me to follow, even though I don't know anything about the topic. That wasn't the problem, but it also wasn't exciting.
Overall, it feels like an episode of a bad TV show. These are character types, not characters.
I felt compelled to write a quick review here because people are ragging on this book. Andy Weir really delves deep into the science and technology - have you read The Martian?? If you read his biography as well, he was also a software developer for many years. This short story accents just that.
If you don't want the science/tech explained to you in great analogies, then move along, Andy Weir isn't for you...
