num_pages: 344
description: Mordred Pendragon the Bastard Prince has done a Bad Thingagain. Exiled to Canada for seven years he has to find a job to pay his bills. For reasons he refuses to reveal Mordred decides Software Engineer has a nice ring to it. And though experience with killing the Once and Future King my father and that time in feudal Japan makes for a poor rsum he is hired by a small tech startup in Toronto.In the midst of dealing with a crippling caffeine addiction and learning C Mordred thinks he has finally found someone to anchor him to the world of the living: Alan the companys offsite lead developer. Except that Alan might not be a living entity at allhe may in fact be the world's first strong AI. Or a demon that mistook a Windows install for the highway to Hell. Or just maybe the ghost of Alan Turing currently inhabiting a laptop.Mordred's attempts to figure out his love life are hampered by constant interference from the Inquisitors of the Securitates Arcanarum corporate espionage real espionage a sysadmin bent on enslaving the world and Marketing's demands that Mordred ship software to the Russian Federation. Then Alan gets himself kidnapped. To save him Mordred must ally himself with the companys CEO who will stop at nothing to rescue her lead developer so he can get back to work. But the Prince doesnt just want to rescue Alan he wants a Happily Ever Afterand he will travel beyond Death itself to get one.Too bad Alan is perfectly happy as a computer.
language: English
title: The Prince and the Program
publisher: DSP Publications