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The Computer Connection
Published 1975 by Berkley Publishing/G. P. Putnam's Sons · 218 pages
Hugo · 1976
FinalistNebula · 1976
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3 award entries · 2 books · 1 wins · 1953–1976
Synopsis
In a far-future Earth, a secret society of immortals created by surviving extreme trauma discovers that a brilliant young scientist has been linked to a dangerously powerful computer. The narrator, an immortal Cherokee chief known as the Grand Doyen, must rally his eccentric companions to prevent the machine-human hybrid from seizing control of the world.
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