The City and the ...
Computers in LiteratureMen had built cities before, but never such a city as Diaspar; for millennia its protective dome shutout the creeping decay and danger of the world outside.
Men had built cities before, but never such a city as Diaspar; for millennia its protective dome shutout the creeping decay and danger of the world outside.
Casimir Radon's first year at American Megaversity turns out completely different than he had imagined, with bizarre factions, cults, and feuds on campus, in a new edition of the satirical debut novel by the author of Cryptonomicon.
Owen Deathstalker, last of his line, is a quiet man, a historian, remote from the stench of corruption and intrigue surrounding the Iron Throne at the heat of the galaxy-spanning, tyrannical Empire.And then, inexplicably, Deathstalker is ...
Two roommates-one a scientist and the other a potential killer-are the subject of this futuristic novel. Also use: Shockwave Rider (1984).
"Richard Yates is named after real-life writer Richard Yates, but it has nothing to do with him.
Valentina, an artificial intelligence program come to life, and her creator, Celeste Hackett, a shy college student and computer genius, are menaced by an unscrupulous lawyer and two computer wizards hired to destroy Valentina
A Chelgrian emissary is sent to the Masaq' Orbital to bring Ziller, a famous but reclusive Chelgrian composer, home, on a mission that also has a top-secret purpose that will take him on a haunting odyssey into his own past and into ...
Multivac, the gigantic computer that controls the entire world and can even predict the probabilities of potential crimes before they happen, suddenly announces that someone is plotting to destroy Multivac.
Now available for the first time in America, March of the Machines is part history of robotics, part futurism.
The dreaded AI's have regrouped in an alternate universe and are preparing to launch their invincible fleet.
A classic science fiction novel features humanoids spreading throughout the galaxy, threatening to stifle all human endeavor, and the hidden group of rebels who try to stem the humanoid tide, if it is not already too late
When Solo--the government's secret weapon--abandons his mission in Nicaragua and flies to New York City, the government sets out to destroy him. By the author of Weapon. Reprint.
Updated with a new afterword, a true-life account of computer espionage tells of a year-long single-handed hunt for a computer thief known as "Hunter," a hacker who stole sensitive security and military information from American computer ...
Brilliant scientist Joe Messenger believes that people can be made to live for ever.
A collection of four science fiction works includes "Software," where rebel robots bring immortality to their human creator by eating his brain, and "Wetware," where robots begin to build their own race of humans.
An "innocent" computer hacker suddenly finds himself on the most wanted list when his computer becomes the source of the worst computer virus in history--a virus he had nothing to do with. Original.
With breathtaking insight, he utilizes vividly unfamiliar worlds to evoke the hauntingly and hilariously familiar in our society and ourselves. From the Trade Paperback edition.