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A band of immortals 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.
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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 coem across - recruit a new member, the briliant Cherokee physicit 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 guture of Earth.
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The Computer Connection,Alfred Bester,I Books,0743487133,Fiction,Fiction - Science Fiction,Science Fiction,Science Fiction - General,Science Fiction - High Tech,Fiction / Science Fiction / High Tech
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