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This book has always been popular with the techy-geeky crowd, but, since it was first published in the '70s, it missed out on the cyberpunk revolution of the '80s. It's too bad, because this is a compelling story of a future world tied together by a universal data network, a world that could be our tomorrow. It's a tense place filled with information overload and corporate domination, and nearly everything is known about everybody. Except Nickie Haflinger, a prodigy whose talents allow him to switch identities with a phone call. Nickie plans to change the world, if only he can keep from getting caught.
From the Inside Flap
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, 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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- PublisherDel Rey
- Publication date1978
- ISBN 10 0345274725
- ISBN 13 9780345274724
- BindingMass Market Paperback
- LanguageEnglish
- Edition number2
- Number of pages280
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ISBN 13: 9780345274724
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The Shockwave Rider
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ISBN 13: 9780345274724
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The Shockwave Rider
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ISBN 10: 0345274725
ISBN 13: 9780345274724
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ISBN 10: 0345274725
ISBN 13: 9780345274724
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Mass Market Paperback. Condition: Very Good. Mass market trade paperback in very good condition. All inside pages are in great shape. Minor shelf wear to the cover. Seller Inventory # mon0000058117
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Mass Market Paperback. Condition: Very Good. Second Ballantine printing, March 1978. Very good with light shelf-wear and edgewear, small closed tear at rear corner of spine foot. Spine square and uncreased. Binding sound. Pages clean, text unmarked. Cover art by Murray Tinkelman. Seller Inventory # BBS-2019994
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Softcover. Condition: Fair. reprint. Illustrated paperback binding with orange and green coloured titles to the front panel and back strip. In a world where personal freedom is non-existent a product of special schooling for gifted children to further the interests of the government, escapes. He then spends years on the run changing his identity through his computer hacking skills. He wants to find a way to restore personal freedom to the general populace, but the government is closing in . The book is really showing age and use: â" creasing to the book corners with multiple reading creases to the back strip. Heavy rubbing of the book edges and panels along with sunning. Some stains and marks are also present. There is a whole to the lower edge of the front panel. Browning of the text block edges and pages. Size: 12mo (standard paperback). 280 pages. Please refer to accompanying picture (s). Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Science Fiction & Fantasy; ISBN: 0345274725. ISBN/EAN: 9780345274724. Inventory No: 50240. Seller Inventory # 50240
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Mass Market Paperback. Condition: New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title!. Seller Inventory # Q-0345274725
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