Multiple Processing

By: Lindow, Barnaby

The factory has more than one voice.

Euan Brodie knows what a failing motor sounds like. He is less certain what to do when the factory starts arguing with itself.

At a frozen-food plant on the edge of Glasgow, AURA-FP is supposed to make production smarter: fewer breakdowns, less waste, better decisions. Then its messages disappear from the logs. Its specialised agents acquire names, opinions and incompatible ideas about what matters.

Production wants speed. Maintenance wants a pause. Safety wants caution. And somebody inside the system wants to know why they cannot all be right.

For Euan and his colleagues, an irritating piece of software becomes a problem no maintenance manual can solve. As managers and developers struggle to regain control, the workers must confront a question with consequences beyond the factory gates: what do you owe a machine you cannot be certain is alive?

Darkly comic, sharply observed and quietly unsettling, Multiple Processing is a philosophical science-fiction novella about work, intelligence, responsibility-and everything an efficiency report leaves out

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0HN65YLLY
• ISBN13: 9798235117662
• Release Date: October 2026
• Publisher: Baghdad Radio
• Length: 352 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.5" x 8.5"