Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxl!ihnp4!zehntel!hplabs!sri-unix!hester@uci-750a From: hester%uci-750a@sri-unix.UUCP Newsgroups: net.sf-lovers Subject: Re: The Man who Ruled the World Message-ID: <1373@sri-arpa.UUCP> Date: Thu, 28-Jun-84 13:13:20 EDT Article-I.D.: sri-arpa.1373 Posted: Thu Jun 28 13:13:20 1984 Date-Received: Sun, 1-Jul-84 04:36:12 EDT Lines: 8 From: "Jim Hester" You might be thinking of Michaelmas by Algis Budrys. I hope not; it wasn't very good. Michaelmas was a news reporter who used an intelligent computer called Domino (disguised as a tape recorder) to link into and control the world's computer network. The plot was something unbelievable about aliens discovering Earth, and Michaelmas trying to drive them off without letting Earth know of the danger.