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He finally saw that he’d looked at the Cardanus incident all wrong. He’d focused on his own mistakes, obsessing about the ways he was different from the computer. But that wasn’t the important part. What mattered was how similar they were. The computer hadn’t played some radical new style that had …

She could say no, and still have the life she wanted. This was how they tempted you, by presenting the way of the market as the only way to achieve what you want. It’s me or What’s New in Henderson forever, honey. But she could move to San Francisco on her own, she could finish her stories, query a…

The big reveal, the secret plan Wiles wanted Lindsay to unveil to the world, was a surprise partnership with Gifty’s Zach Romero. Romero was the most beloved young businessman in Las Vegas, so different from Wiles in age, aspect, and demeanor that Lindsay was having a hard time picturing them in th…

It was all so much bigger than her. There was so much at stake she barely understood, and yet here she was. Technological advancements threatening the future of century-old jobs, gender and age discrimination, the rights of the workers versus the owners’ drive to keep an industry afloat. Thousands …

The hours crawled by at geological speed. If it weren’t for the dealer shifts—every thirty minutes, even with no game actually taking place, with change-of-the-guard-type solemnity—it would be easy to think the high-stakes room existed outside the domain of Time. A couple more regs showed up later …