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The Shockwave Rider

by John Brunner


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A world of the future where the government monitors people's actions through a national system.

Editions of The Shockwave Rider

9780345467171
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Binding/Format

Paperback
Publisher

Ballantine Books
Date

2003
Price

$11.61
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9780060105594
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Binding/Format

Hardcover
Publisher

Harpercollins
Date

1975
Price

$7.13
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9780345324313
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Binding/Format

Paperback
Publisher

Ballantine Books
Date

1990
Price

$1.00
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Publisher Notes

A Science Fiction Book Club Selection

"When John Brunner first told me of his intention to write this book, I was fascinated -- but I wondered whether he, or anyone, could bring it off. Bring it off he has -- with cool brilliance. A hero with transient personalities, animals with souls, think tanks and survival communities fuse to form a future so plausibly alive it has twitched at me ever since."

-- Alvin Toffler

Author of Future Shock

He Was The Most Dangerous Fugitive Alive, But He Didn't Exist!

Nickie Haflinger had lived a score of lifetimes...but technically he didn't exist. He was a fugitive from Tarnover, the high-powered government think tank that had educated him. First he had broken his identity code -- then he escaped.

Now he had to find a way to restore sanity and personal freedom to the computerized masses and to save a world tottering on the brink of disaster.

He didn't care how he did it...but the government did. That's when his Tarnover teachers got him back in their labs...and Nickie Haflinger was set up for a whole new education!

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