The Silent Multitude (ACE 76385)

Compton, D. G.

ISBN 10: 0671830783 / ISBN 13: 9780671830786

Published by Ace Publishing Company, 1120 Avenue of the Americas, New York, 1966

About this Item

First paperback edition. An Ace Science Special 76385. Moderate cover, edge wear; small sticker-pull at bk. Pages very good. Classic, abstract cubist cover art in dark hues by Leo and Diane Dillon. A haunting novel of a dying world. Vivid characters face the disintegration of their metropolis as a concrete eating spore destroys. "Our kind multiplies: We shall by morning, Inherit the Earth. Our foot's in the door." - From "Mushrooms," by Sylvia Plath. 189 pages. Vintage stamp for The Book Exchange bookstore of New Jersey inside cover. Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Silent Multitude (ACE 76385)
• Publisher: Ace Publishing Company, 1120 Avenue of the Americas, New York
• Publication Date: 1966
• ISBN 10: 0671830783
• ISBN 13: 9780671830786
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition: First Edition.
• Condition: Good
• Book Type: Book

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Synopsis

In answer to an unanswerable future, science has created Bohn, the omnipotent computer whose flashing circuits and messianic [pronouncements dictate what tomorrow will - or will not - be. But Matthew Oliver is flesh and blood and full of questions - not nearly as certain as the machine he's appointed to serve. And the right hand of science seldom knows what the left hand is doing . . .