Isbn: 9780743487139 - the computer connection (4 risultati)

Condizione: Good. First Edition. Pages intact with minimal writing/highlighting. The binding may be loose and creased. Dust jackets/supplements are not included. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good.

Paperback: 6¾" x 4¼". Condizione: Near Fine: Small signs of wear. 2004 Edition. © 1975: A stand-alone novel by Alfred Bester. 1st printing of 2004 edition. Previously serialised in slightly different form under the title 'The Indian Giver' in Analog Science Fiction/Science Fact, November, December 1974 & January 1975. Also published under the title 'Extro':- Synopsis: 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. 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. Sequoya Guess, whom they love, must be killed. But how do you kill an immortal?:- Review(s): "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 / "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" - Harlan Ellison:- (original cost $6.99). Cover Art: Scott Grimando (illustratore).…

Mass Market Paperback. Condizione: Very Good. The Computer Connection This book is in very good condition and will be shipped within 24 hours of ordering. The cover may have some limited signs of wear but the pages are clean, intact and the spine remains undamaged. This book has clearly been well maintained and looked after thus far. Money back guarantee if you are not satisfied. See all our books here, order more than 1 book and get discounted shipping.…

Mass Market Paperback. Condizione: Very Good. This book is in very good condition and will be shipped within 24 hours of ordering. The cover may have some limited signs of wear but the pages are clean, intact and the spine remains undamaged. This book has clearly been well maintained and looked after thus far. Money back guarantee if you are not satisfied. See all our books here, order more than 1 book and get discounted shipping.…