The computer connection

Alternate Titles

• Indian giver.

Description

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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Other Editions

• The computer connectionBerkley Pub. Corp. : distributed by Putnam1975-01-01
• Indian giver.distributed by Putnam1975-01-01
• The Computer ConnectionBerkley1976-01-01
• Der Computer und die UnsterblichenPaperbackErich Pabel Verlag1976-06-29
• Computer ConnectionBerkley1978-05-15
• Computer Connection (Biblioteca de Ciencia Ficción /35)Ediciones Orbis1985-01-01