Dan Farleigh -- a pleasant young fellow with a kinky craving for the company of computers.
Janis Trummond -- a beautiful young woman reporter out to dig up the dirtiest secrets of a man's world.
Professor Supermind -- mental master of machines.
Tin Lizzie -- a gifted if ungainly bionic teenager.
Deadend -- a Chicago thug whose thoughts were dealy weapons.
No human imagination could have conceived this oddly twisted team -- and no human imagination had. Their master and mentor used the name of Bernard Maze. But to friends he was Barney -- a computer who decided to take charge before it was too late to save the world from the Emperor of the Last Days.