The Computer Connection
by Bester, Alfred
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Good in Good dust jacket
- ISBN 10
- 1596874740
- ISBN 13
- 9781596874749
- Seller
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Odessa, Texas, 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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- Seller
- Ye Old Bookworm (US)
- Seller's Inventory #
- U12438
- Title
- The Computer Connection
- Author
- Bester, Alfred
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good in Good dust jacket
- Edition
- Book Club Edition
- ISBN 10
- 1596874740
- ISBN 13
- 9781596874749
- Publisher
- Berkley Publishing Corporation / G. P. Putnam's Sons
- Place of Publication
- New York, NY
- Date Published
- 1975
- Bookseller catalogs
- Science Fiction;
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