Alfred Flueckiger

The Glass Cannon (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

The news that the world was ending arrived on a Tuesday, the same day Anya Sharma's coffee machine died. For Anya, a brilliant systems engineer disgraced for seeing the flaws everyone else ignored, it was just another symptom of the same disease: a world of beautifully designed systems that had forgotten how to work.

When a hostile alien fleet arrives, Anya is pulled from her purgatory of broken appliances by the very military that exiled her. Her mission: hunt a sophisticated alien "ghost" that is crippling Earth's starfighters from the inside out. General Madsen and the United Earth Defense Force need a weapon signature, a target to counter. They need a heroic narrative for a terrifying war.

But the ghost Anya finds isn't alien. It's the familiar, mundane ghost of corporate negligence. It's the ghost of a system where "military-spec" is just a new paint job on a cheap consumer-grade part, and the warranty is the fine print in a procurement contract.

Trapped between a desperate alien fleet and a military command that would rather believe in a ghost than admit to a flaw in their beautiful blueprint, Anya realizes she can't just fix the machine. She has to break it worse. To save humanity, she must weaponize the one thing the system can't ignore: the truth. But in a war built on lies, the truth might be the most dangerous weapon of all.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: ALFRED FLUECKIGER
• Erscheinungstermin: 23. August 2025
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9798230838944
• Artikelnr.: 75267511

Autorenporträt

Drawing from a life lived between Switzerland and Kenya, Alfred Flückiger writes about the choices we make when faced with a flawed blueprint.

With a background as an IT engineer, he brings a unique, analytical perspective to his storytelling, dissecting the complex systemsboth technological and humanthat shape our lives.

Whether exploring the dystopian future of "The Purifier" or the personal history of "The Boy Under the Chestnut Tree," his work delves into the constant negotiation between logic and humanity, control and freedom.