β Scribed by Johannesson, Olof
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Panic broke out. The computers had stopped working! There was no heat, no food, no communication. The death toll was long past the million mark.
No one knew what caused the breakdown. Was it human error, or a plot devised by the computers themselves?
Whatever the cause, when it was over most of the human population of the earth had perished. It was the dawn of a new era βwhen the computers ruled. And since the machines had learned to reproduce themselves without manβs help, there was no need for even a single human being.
So the nightmare battle beganβbetween the few surviving humans and the super-being of their own creationβThe Big Computer!
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