Fall of Colossus

✍ Scribed by D. F. Jones

• Book ID: 109657696
• Publisher: Putnam
• Year: 1974
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 117 KB
• Series: Colossus 2
• Category: Fiction
• ISBN-13: 9780399112829

✦ Synopsis

Charles Forbin is the Director: the one man on earth who speaks directly to Colossus. Five years before, the American supercomputer & the Soviet supercomputer were unitedcombining their data, their analytic powers, their learning & growth capacity. In the few seconds of that process, they became one Colossusmaster of humankind. Programmed to solve humanity's problems, Colossus solved them: forestalled nuclear holocaust, eradicated poverty & the frustration and violence it breeds. Soon there was nothing for people to dobut obey. Some made Colossus their God, & Charles Forbin was their Pope. Others wanted to be free of Colossusfor Colossus was also ruthless beyond any human tyrant ever& they wanted Forbin as their deliverer. Either of these movements might get Forbin killed. He is appalled & disgusted by the religious cult, terrified by the rebelswho haven't a chance, as he knows better than anyone on earth. Then Forbin is handed the key to the overthrow of Colossusor is it? He must commit his life to the chance that it is, just to begin with. Then he must commit the earth to the shadowy motives of the mysterious source of this new power.

from the dust jacked of the 1st hardcover edition.

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