The computer connection
by Bester, Alfred
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- Acceptable
- Condition
- Acceptable
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WINDBER, Pennsylvania, United States
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Synopsis
Alfred Bester's first science fiction novel since The Stars My Destination was a major event--a fast-moving adventure story set in Earth's future. A band of immortals--as charming a bunch of eccentrics as you'll ever come across--recruit a new member, the brilliant Cherokee physicist Sequoya Guess. Dr. Guess, with the group's help, gains control of Extro, the super-computer that controls all mechanical activity on Earth. The plan to rid Earth of political repression and to further Guess's researches--which may lead to a great leap in human evolution to produce a race of supermen. But Extro takes over Guess instead of turns malevolent. The task of the merry band suddenly becomes a fight in deadly earnest for the future of Earth.Sequoya Guess, whom they love, must be killed. And how do you kill an immortal?
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- Bookseller
- ParlorBooks (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- mon0000071952
- Title
- The computer connection
- Author
- Bester, Alfred
- Format/Binding
- Unknown Binding
- Book Condition
- Used - Acceptable
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Berkley Pub. Corp. : distributed
- Date Published
- 1975-01-01
- Size
- 1.0000 in x 6.7500 in x 4.2500 i
- Weight
- 0.74 lbs
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