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Subject: computers in sf
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Date: Fri, 19-Apr-85 08:21:30 EST
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Posted: Fri Apr 19 08:21:30 1985
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From: uci-icsa!csuf!sabre@Berkeley

		The CYBORG and the SORCERERS
	   	   By Lawrence Watt-Evans

  This is a book about IRU cyborg (Independent Reconnaissance Unit) 
whos mission is to solo pilot a ship, and play the role of spy and
saboteur. He has to determine the capablility of each planet he came 
across to launch an attack on Old Earth and if possible to distroy 
its ability to attack. He was also to capture any new weapons he came
across, so they could be duplicated by his side back on Mars. A computer 
was included on the mission to insure loyalty, and to set off the 
thermite bomb at the base of his skull. This mission could never end
untill his death since Earth lost the war and now was no one alive
to give them the release or recall code. IRU 205 code named Slant had 
been on this mission for 14 years. Slant then came a cross a planet
in which the computer had detected "gravitational anomalies" and he
had to find out why. It turns out that after the planet had been 
attacked by Old Earth and bombed back from a nuclear age to a level
of bow and arrow a few people gain use of psi abilities and become
wizards. 

  This book and combines science and fantasy into a very good story.

 Jeff Ellis
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