The Computer Connection

Alfred Bester's first science fiction novel since The Stars My Destination is a major event--a breathtakingly 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 computer that controls all mechanical activity on Earth The plan is 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 evil. The task of the merry band suddenly becomes a fight in deadly earnest for Earth's survival.

Sequoya Guess, whom they love, must be killed. And how do you kill an immortal?

THE COMPUTER CONNECTION is a jam-packed science fiction novel--space travel, time travel, immortality, a supercomputer, a hideous monster, wit, insanity, intelligence, a. non-stop story and unforgettable characters. Merely what Alfred Bester's readers have been expecting for nearly two decades.