Death Match (Child novel)
Death Match, is a 2004 horror novel by American author Lincoln Child. It is his second solo novel. In it, he takes a cursory glance at the world of electronic matchmaking, and takes it to its natural technological conclusion—for a substantial sum of money, the computer will locate a 'perfect match' for anyone.
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| Author | Lincoln Child |
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| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Genre | Thriller |
| Publisher | Doubleday |
Publication date | 2004 |
| Media type | Print (paperback) |
| Pages | 416 |
| ISBN | 0-307-27556-6 |
| OCLC | 74831115 |
| Preceded by | Utopia |
| Followed by | Deep Storm |
Plot introduction
Every once in a rare while, the most perfect of 'perfect' matches ('supercouples, of 100% compatibility) is located. Then tragedy suddenly strikes. One of the "supercouples" is found dead in their Arizona home, an "unquestionable" double suicide.
Child's analysis of the topic proves a useful tool to opine on the topics of psychology, relationships, cutting-edge computer technology and artificial intelligence.
gollark: How common are ridiculously unplanned failure modes? And how much do the humans actually get them right?
gollark: There is the problem that your thing might rely too much on simulation quirks.
gollark: If you can simulate the plane down to parts-level, which is admittedly probably quite hard (but computers inevitably get faster), you can just randomly generate failure cases.
gollark: One of those, probably.
gollark: Try simulating better.
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