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The Computer Connection

Alfred Bester

1975183 pagesabout 3–4 hours
1975
first published
  • 1975Berkley Pub. Corp. · 183 pages · ENG
  • 1975Berkley Pub. Corp. : distributed by Putnam · 218 pages · ENGISBN 9780399114816
  • 1976Berkley · 217 pages · ENGISBN 9780425030394
  • 1985Ediciones OrbisISBN 9788476344088
  • 2000iBooks · 258 pages · ENGISBN 9780671039011
  • 2003ibooks, Inc. · ENGISBN 9781588243454
  • 2016ibooks, Incorporated · ENGISBN 9781596874749
  • 2004I Books · 272 pages · ENGISBN 9780743487139

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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