✍ Scribed by John Brunner
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"Brunner writes about the future as if he and the reader were already living in it!" --The New York Times Book Review "When John Brunner first told me of his intention to write the book, I was fascinated--but I wondered whether he, or anyone, could bring it off. Bring it off he has, with cool brilliance. A hero with transient personalities, animals with soulds, think tanks and survival communities fuse to form a future so plausibly alive it as twitched at me ever since." --Alvin Toffler, author of FUTURE SHOCK In a world drowning in data and information and choking on novelty and innovation, Nickie Haflinger, a most dangerous fugitive who doesn't even appear to exist, provides a window onto a global society falling apart in all directions, with madness run amok and personal freedom surrendered to computers and bureaucrats...
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SUMMARY: A Science Fiction Book Club Selection "When John Brunner first told me of his intention to write this book, I was fascinated -- but I wondered whether he, or anyone, could bring it off. Bring it off he has -- with cool brilliance. A hero with transient personalities, animals with souls, t
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