The Computer Connection
by Alfred Bester
- Used
- Fine
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Fine/Fine
- Seller
-
Lawrence, Kansas, 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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Details
- Bookseller
- Farbeyond Society LLC (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 000201
- Title
- The Computer Connection
- Author
- Alfred Bester
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Berkley / Putnam
- Date Published
- 1975
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Bookseller catalogs
- Science Fiction;
Terms of Sale
Farbeyond Society LLC
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