{"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?", "title": "The Computer Connection", "covers": [404894, 8204657], "first_publish_date": "1975", "key": "/works/OL1819365W", "authors": [{"author": {"key": "/authors/OL218124A"}, "type": {"key": "/type/author_role"}}], "type": {"key": "/type/work"}, "subjects": ["Fiction", "Science Fiction", "American Science fiction", "Fiction, science fiction, general", "Fiction, mystery & detective, general"], "latest_revision": 11, "revision": 11, "created": {"type": "/type/datetime", "value": "2009-12-09T22:25:30.122387"}, "last_modified": {"type": "/type/datetime", "value": "2022-12-17T20:25:55.981812"}}