MATRIX. by Mason, Douglas Rankine - [1971]

London: Robert Hale & Company,. [1971]. boards.. Page edges foxed, else a fine copy in a very good dust jacket with. wear at edges, short closed tear at top edge of front panel, and. foxing, mostly internal, but with some show through on flaps and rear. panel. (#146770). First British (and first hardcover) edition. A tale of the future in which android "biomechs," and "spanners," long- lived surgically altered super humans are displacing Homo sapiens on an overpopulated Earth. Meanwhile, the some of the decisions made by the Matrix's computers, now unreliable, are downright absurd -- and worse, inhumanly cruel. And there are so many of them. Could they all be mistakes? If not ... ? Clarke, Tale of the Future (1978), p. 195. Sargent, British and American Utopian Literature, 1516-1985, pp. 326-7. Reginald 09760.