Project Gutenberg 2009-07-22 Public domain in the USA. 123 Hasse, Henry 1913 1977 Hasse, Henry Louis Varga, Mel We're Friends, Now Produced by Sankar Viswanathan, Greg Weeks, and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net "We're Friends, Now" by Henry Hasse is a science fiction novel written in the early 1960s. The story revolves around Raoul Beardsley, a serological coordinator at Crime-Central, who grapples with feelings of inefficiency in a world increasingly dominated by machines. As the narrative unfolds, Beardsley's psychological struggle against the mechanized crime-solving entity, ECAIAC, suggests themes of humanity versus technology and the quest for personal relevance in a data-driven society. The opening of the novel introduces Raoul Beardsley as he prepares for an important day in the investigation of the murder of Amos Carmack, the creator of ECAIAC. As he navigates through a tense atmosphere of expectation and doubt, Beardsley's internal conflict about the reliance on machines to solve crimes becomes palpable. The narrative presents his interactions with Jeff Arnold, the cyberneticist, and touches on the intricacies of their work within the Mechanical Division while setting the stage for a developing murder mystery. A growing sense of unease signals that today's run of ECAIAC may not go smoothly, initiating a tension that captivates the reader and hints at Beardsley’s unsettling revelations about both the machine and himself. (This is an automatically generated summary.) en Science fiction PS Text Science Fiction Browsing: Literature Browsing: Science-Fiction & Fantasy 151641 151650 2024-09-12T14:37:25.271197 2023-09-13T06:45:34.365434 text/html text/html 150300 2009-07-22T07:37:26 text/html; charset=iso-8859-1 203523 2009-07-22T07:37:26 text/html; charset=iso-8859-1 application/zip 252271 2024-09-12T14:37:29.593211 application/epub+zip 253377 2024-09-12T14:37:26.614267 application/epub+zip 104224 2024-09-12T14:37:25.750203 application/epub+zip 375010 2024-09-12T14:37:31.827188 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 364654 2024-09-12T14:37:29.048145 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 215992 2022-09-13T15:37:16.547752 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 140988 140885 2024-09-12T14:37:24.851197 2023-09-13T06:45:33.895429 text/plain; charset=us-ascii text/plain 140887 2009-07-22T07:37:26 text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 54914 2009-07-22T07:37:26 text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 application/zip 140892 2009-07-22T07:37:26 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 54900 2009-07-22T07:37:26 text/plain; charset=us-ascii application/zip 20357 2024-09-12T14:37:31.964217 application/rdf+xml 13539 2024-09-12T14:37:26.151157 image/jpeg 3578 2024-09-12T14:37:25.921191 image/jpeg 250940 2024-09-12T14:37:25.291203 application/octet-stream application/zip Archives containing the RDF files for *all* our books can be downloaded at https://www.gutenberg.org/wiki/Gutenberg:Feeds#The_Complete_Project_Gutenberg_Catalog en.wikipedia