The Computer Connection

by Alfred Bester

Overview

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 immortal-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 group's help, gain control of Extro, the supercomputer that controls all mechanical activity on Earth. They 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 and turns malevolent. The task of the merry band suddenly becomes a fight in deadly earnest for the future of Earth. .

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780671039011
Publisher:	Ipicturebooks
Publication date:	05/06/2011
Pages:	272
Product dimensions:	5.90(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.80(d)

About the Author

Alfred Bester (1913-1987) was an American science fiction author, screenwriter, and editor. He is considered one of the founders of modern science fiction. His 1953 book The Demolished Man has the distinction of being the inaugural winner of the Hugo Award for best novel. He was the ninth Grand Master of the Science Fiction Writers of America and in 2001 was inducted into the Science Fiction Writers Hall of Fame.

What People are Saying About This

Harlan Ellison

Alfred Bester was, and remains, long after his passing, the preeminent Class Act of imaginative literature. Bester was the mountain, all the rest of us merely climbers toward that peak.

Editorial Reviews

"Fresh, witty, and totally original ... developments are clever and quick. Bester writes with wit and energy, and he is unendingly inventive. The treatment of ideas in The Computer Connection is unique, as is its social consciousness and satire".

-- Bookletter

From the Publisher

Fresh, witty, and totally original...developments are clever and quick. Bester writes with wit and energy, and he is unendingly inventive. The treatment of ideas in The Computer Connection is unique, as is its social consciousness and satire.

Bookletter