Ace Double Series by Samuel R. Delany
Ace Double #1
City of a Thousand Suns
Samuel R. Delany
Beachhead
for a Galactic Assault
The war was
over. The great computer which had arranged and directed the complex military
operations of that future nation was to be dismantled. But the computer had
become expert in the science of self-defense . . . and it resisted!
The government
buildings were blasted! Rockets rained on the great city, and the Empire of
Toromon, the first great hope of humanity after the millenia of radiation
wreckage, faced disaster at the hands of a super-scientific monster of its own
creation.
But, unknown
even to Toromon’s desperate leaders, was the fact that behind the berserk
computer lurked the unearthly mind, of a real enemy — a foe from the most
distant realm of space, intent on making the Earth the first victim of galactic
conquest.
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