Bob Pepper’s cover for the 1970 editionįrom the inside page: “Bester at His Best. I read this as an older teen although my copy has long since disappeared and my memory of it is null. Initial Thoughts: The worst pre-1990 Hugo winning novel? Debate! The dreams of the ages could be realized! If… you’d give up one half, and alter the other half beyond recognition. But the ultimate frustration lay in this: only the bums, the ner’do-wells, could bring themselves to pay that price! As for the rest… They could have eternal youth–at a price. It was said long ago that the price of immortality is rebirth–and that is a price few have ever been willing to pay. You can’t smash an idea–and the idea was bound to grow again anyway. Joe Carter and his strange friends saved the machine–but that really wasn’t necessary. They tried to smash ‘Bossy’ the super-computer. Inside page blurb: “They’d rather be right! Michael Carroll’s cover for the 1981 edition.
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