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D.F. Jones
Birth date: July 15, 1918
Died: April 01, 1981
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markk
markk rated it 7 years ago
The final novel in D. F. Jones’s “Colossus Trilogy” picks up where the last one left off, with Charles Forbin – the creator of Colossus, the supercomputer that took over the world five years before – and his assistant Edward Blake awaiting the arrival of the Martians who provided them with the means...
markk
markk rated it 7 years ago
D. F. Jones’s tale of a computer’s takeover of the world picks up five years from where his previous novel, Colossus, left off. Having replaced itself with a more advanced system of its own design, Colossus is now established as the unchallenged overlord of humanity. From its sprawling complex on th...
markk
markk rated it 7 years ago
Though the theme of computers taking over the world is a fairly standard one nowadays, it was still fairly fresh when D. F. Jones’s wrote this science fiction classic. Set in the then-future of the early 21st century, it is about the creation of a supercomputer designed to manage the nuclear deterr...
markk
markk rated it 7 years ago
A United States Air Force jet fighter on a test flight vanishes from the California skies . . . and reappears four months later near Guam. Two years later, a Russian cargo plane experiences a similar disappearance, with its crew completely unaware that ten months have passed for them. As the America...
Jessicathecat
Jessicathecat rated it 25 years ago
This book, and the two that follow, are a chilling representation of what would/will happen if an "infallible super brain" is put in charge of defense of the world. Shortly thereafter, the superbrain gains control of all life--a "nanny state" evolves. It isn't a pleasant existence.The two books that...
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