Gav Thorpe is a British author of fantasy fiction and worked for 14 years as a developer for Games Workshop for Warhammer and Warhammer 40k. He has written a number of novels set in the Warhammer fantasy universe and outside of the Warhammer world his work is published by Angry Robot Books, the first novel being "The Crown of Blood".
Part of the inhumanity of the computer is that, once it is competently programmed and working smoothly, it is completely honest.