- Paperback: 224 pages
- Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd; First Printing edition (11 Aug 1983)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0140070508
- ISBN-13: 978-0140070507
- Product Dimensions: 18 x 11 x 1.8 cm
- Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 1,920,953 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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David's computer skills inadvertently get him involved in a game with the US Defence department computer - but David can't afford to lose because the computer really does control the targeting and launching of the US nuclear missile capabilities.
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Two Known Editions: Green and Red
10 Feb 2009
Format:Mass Market Paperback|Amazon Verified Purchase
There are two editions of this novelization. The version with the green title as pictured is the original. An alternate version with a red title was produced for the Science Fiction Book Club (as noted on back cover) and has alterations removing references to drugs or altering dialogue to make it about something else (e.g. the conversation between the missile silo operators), though both editions include a bit at the end of chapter 3 about David Lightman reading a shoplifted copy of a another book by David Bischoff, Day of the Dragonstar.
I misplaced my censored copy years ago. I'd appreciate it if sellers would note which edition they have as I would like to reacquire that copy.
I misplaced my censored copy years ago. I'd appreciate it if sellers would note which edition they have as I would like to reacquire that copy.
One of the books that made me want to become a writer
11 July 2006
Format:Mass Market Paperback
I loved the movie, then found the book, and read it, and enjoyed it, without, then, knowing what a novelization was, or is. It didn't matter. David Bischoff's storytelling grabbed me, made me relate to the kid in the book, and all these years later my next novel gets some encouragement from that experience. Thank you, David, you did good. And you still are.
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Not Free SF Reader
3 Sep 2007
Format:Mass Market Paperback
The book of the movie. Completely forgettable, neither good nor bad, but a pretty average example of the genre.
A computer cracker kid gets into trouble when he gets into some military systems and starts a computer system thinking that world war is a game or simulation that it must win.
A computer cracker kid gets into trouble when he gets into some military systems and starts a computer system thinking that world war is a game or simulation that it must win.
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