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will love Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book.  Carnophile | Feb 5, 2008 |  Unknown to most, there is a secret society of immortals. To become immortal, you generally have to die in a particularly nasty manner. In this future society and super computer is very important to running things, and when a diseased crazy immortal becomes involved with the machine, the other immortals have to stop him. If you can't kill him, what do you do? http://superprose.blogspot.com/2006/12/extro.html (  ) bluetyson | Feb 3, 2008 | Unknown to most, there is a secret society of immortals. To become immortal, you generally have to die in a particularly nasty manner. In this future society and super computer is very important to running things, and when a diseased crazy immortal becomes involved with the machine, the other immortals have to stop him. If you can't kill him, what do you do? http://superprose.blogspot.com/2006/12/extro.html ( ) bluetyson | Feb 3, 2008 | Not as good as some of Bester's other works, but still worth the read, if only for the hyper-eccentricity of the characters. ( ) ellisonite | Aug 10, 2007 | Like Golem100, this novel falls just short of being Bester at his best, but is still very enjoyable. The Computer Connection (also published as Extro! and The Indian Giver) is about a strange group of immortals who get mixed up with a Native American rocket scientist, his three devolved astronauts, and an ambitious supercomputer. Bester sticks to his characteristic themes of redemption and the ultimate evolution of the human race and is as energetic and entertaining as ever. pipecad | Jul 4, 2007 |  no reviews | add a review
Amazon.com Book Description (ISBN 0671039016, Paperback)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. . Sequoya Guess, whom they love, must be killed. And how do you kill an immortal? . (retrieved from Amazon Fri, 24 Apr 2009 07:58:12 -0400) The first test round has been closed. Visit the Open Shelves Classification group for details. |
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It's about a bunch of immortals. Again we see Bester embracing a very audacious concept (like the teleporting in The Stars My Destination). I find that to be one of the most pleasing features of his storytelling. (