One-Shot

One-Shot

One-ShotYou can do a great deal if you have enough data, and enough time to compute on...
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Author: Blish, James,1921-1975
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Language: English
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One-Shot

One-Shot

$148.15 $9.99

One-Shot

$148.15 $9.99
Author: Blish, James,1921-1975
Format: eBook
Language: English

One-Shot

You can do a great deal if you have enough data, and enough time to compute on it, by logical methods. But given the situation that neither data nor time is adequate, and an answer must be produced ... what do you do? On the day that the Polish freighter Ludmilla laid an egg in New York harbor, Abner Longmans ("One-Shot") Braun was in the city going about his normal business, which was making another million dollars. As we found out later, almost nothing else was normal about that particular week end for Braun. For one thing, he had brought his family with hima complete departure from routinereflecting the unprecedentedly legitimate nature of the deals he was trying to make. From every point of view it was a bad week end for the CIA to mix into his affairs, but nobody had explained that to the master of the Ludmilla. I had better add here that we knew nothing about this until afterward; from the point of view of the storyteller, an organization like Civilian Intelligence Associates gets to all its facts backwards, entering the tale at the pay-off, working back to the hook, and winding up with a sheaf of background facts to feed into the computer for Next Time. It's rough on the various people who've tried to fictionalize what we doparticularly for the lazy examples of the breed, who come to us expecting that their plotting has already been done for thembut it's inherent in the way we operate, and there it is. ......Buy Now (To Read More)

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Ebook Number: 22958
Author: Blish, James
Release Date: Oct 11, 2007
Format: eBook
Language: English

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Illustrator: Van Dongen, H. R., 1920-2010

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