description: 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?
language: English
title: The Computer Connection
titlecomplete: The Computer Connection
genres: Fiction, Science Fiction, The United States Of America, Cyberpunk, Speculative Fiction, Collections, Science Fiction Fantasy, Time Travel, Novels, Fantasy
ratings_count: 1100
awards: awardedAt: 189331200000
name: Hugo Award
category: Best Novel, awardedAt: 157795200000
name: Nebula Award
category: Novel, awardedAt: 189331200000
name: Ditmar Award
category: Best International Long Fiction
publisher: New York: Berkley/Putnam