Computerworld
By: by A. E. van Vogt.
Publisher: New English Library
Published: February 1986
Place of publication: Sevenoaks
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 208
ISBN-13: 9780450059049
Subjects: Fiction; Science Fiction - General; Fiction / General; Science Fiction; Fiction - Science Fiction
Genres: Science Fiction.
Description: The computer controlled them all. Bio-magnetic recognition was infallible, instant.  Its eyes were everywhere -- in the street, in the home.  There was no escape as it scanned, recorded, knew.  An armed Computer Maintenance Corps handled social control.  The military-style personnel thought the computer was God.  But the computer stole.  Energy.  With every personal scan, even casual recognition check there went a small but significant subject-to-computer mental energy transfer.  Only the Computer Rebel Society saw the threat and had the will to organise against it.  The computer, of course, made them outlaws.
Notes: Originally published: New York: Daw, 1983.