The Shockwave Rider

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Ex-library with some markings (crossed over with red marker) and missing front endpaper otherwise straightl tight and clean in Hardcover first edition - New York:: Harper & Row (1975). Hardcover first edition -. Ex-library with some markings (crossed over with red marker) and missing front endpaper otherwise straightl tight and clean in a very good unmarked dustjacket (original price of 8.95 still present but outer edges of dj flaps are slightly thinned from being pasted to endpapers) . First printing. Classic dystopian novel the last in his cycle of dystopian fction which began with Stand of Zanzibar. This is set in the 21st century where a massive computer data-net links all of North America and giving information to anyone with a high enough access code. One man picked out of a poor and parentless environment and delivered for "training" to an institution dedicated to molding genuises runs away when he discovers that they are breeding genetically modified children physically deformed but brilliant and he spends 6 years trying to find a safe place. David Langford in the Anatomy of Wonder noted that this novel "anticipated cyberpunk by nearly a decade and trendier real-world virus programs by longer still." We are just now beginning to live in a real world of overwhelming data collection and destruction of privacy. 246 pp. Dust jacket art by Creston Ely.