The Computer Connection

Alfred Bester

ibooks, Incorporated, May 6, 2011 - Fiction - 272 pages

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. .

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User Review  - joeldinda - LibraryThing

First read this book when it was published, and remember enjoying it immensely. Less enthused now, but it's a fun read. I remembered a few things from the earlier reading, but didn't really remember ...

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User Review  - Garrison0550 - LibraryThing

An awful bomb exploding in my brain...make it stop...make it stop! So I did just that. I took it to the used book store as a trade in. They didn't want it either.

About the author

Alfred Bester was among the first important authors of contemporary science fiction. His passionate novels of worldly adventure, high intellect, and tremendous verve, The Stars My Destination and the Hugo Award winning The Demolished Man, established Bester as a s.f. grandmaster, a reputation that was ratified by the Science Fiction Writers of America shortly before his death. Bester also was an acclaimed journalist for Holiday magazine, a reviewer for the Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction and even a writer for Superman.

Bibliographic information

• Title: The Computer Connection
• Author: Alfred Bester
• Edition: illustrated
• Publisher: ibooks, Incorporated, 2011
• ISBN: 1596874740, 9781596874749
• Length: 272 pages
• Subjects: Fiction / Science Fiction / General