by James L. Halperin · Ediciones B · tapa dura · ISBN 9788440679932
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«La Máquina de la Verdad» is the science fiction novel by James L. Halperin, published by Ediciones B in hardback (423 pages, in Spanish).
Set in the near future, the novel imagines a device capable of detecting lies with absolute precision. Its appearance coincides with an anti-crime law that speeds up trials and stiffens sentences, and the race to perfect the machine drags a man into a betrayal whose secret he will have to hide even from his own creation.
This is the Spanish translation of «The Truth Machine», a novel originally published in 1996.
For readers of science fiction and dystopias interested in the limits of truth and freedom.
James L. Halperin is an American businessman and author, who is the co-founder and co-chairman of Heritage Auctions, now the largest American auction house with 2024 sales in excess of $1.867 billion. In 1985 Halperin authored a text on grading coins, How to Grade U.S. Coins, upon which the grading standards of the grading services PCGS and NGC were ultimately based. He is the author of two futurist fiction books, The Truth Machine (1996) and The First Immortal (1997), which were in 2001 both chosen by PC Magazine in a survey put out to their online newsletter subscribers, as possible responses for the top 17 science/technology fiction books of the previous 20 years. In the 1980s he and his businesses were investigated by federal agencies, which investigation was settled by signing consent decrees and agreeing to pay a substantial fine.
