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An edition of Kill Decision

Kill Decision

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Linda McKinney is a myrmecologist, a scientist who studies the social structure of ants. Her academic career has left her entirely unprepared for the day her sophisticated research is conscripted by unknown forces to help run an unmanned and automated drone army. Odin is the secretive Special Ops soldier with a unique insight into the faceless enemy who has begun to attack the American homeland with drones programmed to seek, identify, and execute targets without human intervention.

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E P Dutton & Co
Language
English
Pages
390

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United States. Army. Special Forces Fiction United States Women scientists Drone aircraft Artificial intelligence Fiction, thrillers, suspense Women scientists, fiction United states, fiction Scientists, fiction Long Now Manual for Civilization
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- a terrifying, breathtaking, and all-too-plausible vision of the world's near future. Unmanned weaponized drones already exist - they're widely used by America in the Middle East. Here's the real science behind it, and one step further, with frightening results...
Linda McKinney is a myrmecologist, a scientist who studies the social structure of ants. Her academic career has left her entirely unprepared for the day her sophisticated research is conscripted by unknown forces to help run an unmanned - and thanks to her research, automated - drone army. Odin is the secretive Special Ops soldier with a unique insight into the faceless enemy who has begun to attack the American homeland with drones programmed to seek, identify, and execute targets without human intervention.
Together, McKinney and Odin must slow this advance long enough for the world to recognize its destructive power, because for thousands of years the 'kill decision' during battle has remained in the hands of humans - and off-loading that responsibility to machines will bring unintended, possibly irreversible, consequences. But as forces even McKinney and Odin don't understand begin to gather, and death rains down from above, it may already be too late to save humankind from destruction at the hands of our own technology.

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New York, NY USA
Copyright Date
2012

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Dewey Decimal Class
813/.6
Library of Congress
PS3619.U327 K55 2012, PS3619.U327K55 2012

The Physical Object

Format
Hardcover
Pagination
p. cm.
Number of pages
390
Dimensions
9.3 x 6.4 x 1.3 inches
Weight
1.2 pounds

Edition Identifiers

Open Library
OL25177485M
ISBN 10
0525952616
ISBN 13
9780525952619
LCCN
2011052061
OCLC/WorldCat
757469826

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Work ID
OL16471431W

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When the U.S. finds itself subjected to targeted drone assassinations, the race is on to find those responsible. But after the drones are discovered to be autonomous — programmed to strike without direct human control — the search for the perpetrators becomes infinitely more difficult. It's a discovery that heralds in a new era of cheap, anonymous war, where the kill decision has moved from man to machine with lasting consequences for us all.

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