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    SOPHIE: Super Optimal Programmable Home Integration Environment
    SOPHIE: Super Optimal Programmable Home Integration Environment
    SOPHIE: Super Optimal Programmable Home Integration Environment
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    SOPHIE: Super Optimal Programmable Home Integration Environment

    By Bruce Allsman

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    SOPHIE, a thriller by Bruce Allsman

     

    Jason Macklin is a billionaire, a domotics pioneer and inventor of SOPHIE, Super Optimal Programmable Home Integration Environment, a state-of-the-art home automation system. Jason and his wife, Clarisse, live in their new home that is equipped with SOPHIE. When unusual things begin to happen, he investigates and discovers that a malicious hacker, Peter Newman, a former employee with an axe to grind, is gradually taking control of SOPHIE, in turn the home's hermetic environment thereby trapping him and his wife. Peter demands a huge ransom, an immediate payment by wire transfer, or he would use SOPHIE to kill them.

     

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBruce Yeoh
    Release dateApr 21, 2020
    ISBN9781393161059
    SOPHIE: Super Optimal Programmable Home Integration Environment

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      SOPHIE - Bruce Allsman

      SOPHIE

      Bruce Allsman

      All of the characters in this book

      are fictitious, and any resemblance

      to actual persons, living or dead,

      is purely coincidental.

      SOPHIE

      Copyright © 2020, 2021 by Bruce Allsman

      All Rights Reserved

      Published by Bruce Yeoh

      Table of Contents

      SOPHIE

      About the Author

      Books by Bruce Allsman

      SOPHIE

      UNABLE TO EXECUTE YOUR command, SOPHIE intoned. The impartial, smooth, mechanical, and monotone speech permeated the entire residence. The female voice emanated from electro-acoustic transducers fitted in every room.

      You've selected a wrong icon, Jason said to his wife, Clarisse. In the kitchen near the fridge, they stood at a computer terminal with a twenty-inch touch screen. Clarisse withdrew her forefinger and frowned.

      What did I do wrong? she asked.

      Let me show you, he said. The full command set is shown here.

      With his index finger, he moved the cursor to the top of the display and a horizontal row of program icons appeared. Below the row, the word SOPHIE and on the next line the words, Super Optimal Programmable Home Integration Environment, were displayed in black colored text against a white background.

      I see, she said. It's so easy. SOPHIE and I will get along fine. She's one smart gal.

      SOPHIE is not a She but an It, he corrected her. He didn't believe in humanizing inanimate objects, particularly computers. Humans must always have ultimate control. Nevertheless,

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