Summary:
Jon Graeme and Harry Sale are unlikely friends. Harry is a world-class programmer, but his abrasive personality alienates co-workers. In contrast, Jon is a handsome and easy-going technical writer, the low man on the IT totem pole.
Sharing a love of nature, the men set out together, planning to go their separate ways–Jon on a hike and Harry, fly fishing. Three days later, Jon arrives at the rendezvous point, but his friend is nowhere in sight. When Jon finds Harry unconscious on the floor of a cave, Harry claims to have been lying there the entire time. But he is neither cold nor hungry. What Jon doesn’t know is that Harry fell into an underground cavern, where he came into contact with an alien quantum computer.
Back at work, Harry jettisons his regular tasks and concentrates exclusively on inventing a new operating language to access the alien system. In the process he crashes his company’s Super Computer and is fired. Jon convinces the company to give Harry a second chance, arguing that the system he has invented will make them millions.
Jon has no idea what havoc Harry is about to unleash.
Author Bio:
I was born at home in Glasgow, Scotland during a week of relentless bombing raids just before the close of World War II. The day I was born an incendiary bomb fell on the church across the street from where we lived. I guess I entered the world with a big adrenalin rush.
My family later moved to England and then on to America. I learned quickly what it was like to be a stranger in a strange land. Like so many immigrants I developed the reflexive habit of stepping back and watching, looking at the world through the wrong end of a telescope. All in all, it was a great beginning for someone who would become a writer.
I followed a path typical of so many writers. After college I bounced through a series of temporary jobs as I traveled around the country. I wasn’t interested in a career; all I wanted was to write. I produced dozens of short stories and at least a half dozen botched attempts at novels. Finally, I met a wonderful woman who became my wife. I got a job driving a library van and spent much of my free time writing short stories and working on a novel. When I couldn’t sell my novel, I took a long look at myself. I had no career and no prospects. I decided it was time to turn things around.
My wife and I moved to New Hampshire and I got an entry level job at a software company. I was soon promoted to the technical writing department and ended up writing over 500,000 words of online documentation. After a few years in technical writing I was promoted to the programming department and ended up the Senior EDI Programmer, creating EDI maps and writing UNIX scripts and troubleshooting on AIX systems throughout the US and Canada.
I started writing again when I retired. I decided to write the kind of book that I would enjoy reading — a book that was entertaining and had a strong story, clear writing, interesting characters, and unexpected twists. The title of this book is The Infinity Program. It was published on April 1, 2014 by the Camel Press. The book is about a 60 million year old computer system, a world class systems programmer by the name of Harry Sale, and an alien program that might just change the world forever.
Website: http://richard-hardy.com/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/rhfh944
Review:
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