The Computer Connection
by Alfred Bester
- Used
- very good
- Paperback
- Condition
- Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 0425030393
- ISBN 13
- 9780425030394
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State College, 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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- Webster's Bookstore Cafe (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- mon0000036392
- Title
- The Computer Connection
- Author
- Alfred Bester
- Format/Binding
- Mass Market Paperback
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Paperback
- ISBN 10
- 0425030393
- ISBN 13
- 9780425030394
- Publisher
- Berkley Books
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1976
- Size
- in x in x in
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- Book;
- X weight
- lb
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