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Seller: PAPPINFUSS Books, Encino, CA, U.S.A.PAPPINFUSS Books
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5th Printing. Del Rey, 1984. Good Condition - Some normal wear with age. No marks or missing pages. Crisp edges. Spine is good. Not for heavy beach reading, but more display or collection. The Shockwave Rider is a 1975 science fiction novel by John Brunner about Nickie Haflinger, a fugitive computer expert and former government "crazed talent" who can effortlessly manipulate information networks. Set in a dystopian near-future society overwhelmed by data overload and corporate control, Haflinger wanders across the country assuming different identities. Along the way, he unleashes a revolutionary computer program called "Tapeworm" that liberates restricted information and forces the totalitarian system to collapse under its own weight.
Seller Inventory # 1714
- Title
- The Shockwave Rider
- Author
- John Brunner
- Publisher
- Del Rey
- Publication year
- 1984
- Condition
- Good
- Binding
- Paperback
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 0345324315
- ISBN 13
- 9780345324313
"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, think tanks and survival communities fuse to form a future so plausibly alive it has twitched at me ever since."
-- Alvin Toffler
Author of Future Shock
He Was The Most Dangerous Fugitive Alive, But He Didn't Exist!
Nickie Haflinger had lived a score of lifetimes...but technically he didn't exist. He was a fugitive from Tarnover, the high-powered government think tank that had educated him. First he had broken his identity code -- then he escaped.
Now he had to find a way to restore sanity and personal freedom to the computerized masses and to save a world tottering on the brink of disaster.
He didn't care how he did it...but the government did. That's when his Tarnover teachers got him back in their labs...and Nickie Haflinger was set up for a whole new education!
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