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Extro [Hardcover]

Alfred Bester
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25 Sep 1975
Dr Sequoya Guess, the latest recruit to a small group of immortals, attempts to take over Extro, the supercomputer that controls all mechanical activity on earth, but is himself possessed by Extro. Bester's other novels include "Golem 100" and "Tiger, Tiger".
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  • Hardcover: 224 pages
  • Publisher: Methuen Publishing Ltd; First edition, first impression edition (25 Sep 1975)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0413344606
  • ISBN-13: 978-0413344601
  • Product Dimensions: 20.1 x 13.2 x 2.5 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
  • Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 1,596,122 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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5.0 out of 5 stars A thought provoking read. 23 July 2007
Format:Paperback
This book is one I regularly come back to. In a catastrophically wrecked 24th century there is a group of people who are essentially immortal - apparently scared immortal by some dreadful event in their life. The hero, for example, became immortal during the Krakatoa eruption. These immortals find themselves pitted against a rogue member of their group backed up by a paranoid computer.

The extrapolated effects of global climate change, nascent racism and western educational disarmament described within the book are very disturbing. Especially as all current indicators are pointing in the way Alfred Bester descibes.
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4.0 out of 5 stars Super Reader 4 Aug 2007
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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?
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