The Computer Connection
by Bester, Alfred
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 0399114815
- ISBN 13
- 9780399114816
- Seller
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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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- The Book Bin (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- BBS-2001237
- Title
- The Computer Connection
- Author
- Bester, Alfred
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0399114815
- ISBN 13
- 9780399114816
- Publisher
- Berkley Putnam
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1975
- X weight
- 13 oz
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