The Terminal Man - Hardcover

Crichton, Michael

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0394447689 ISBN 13: 9780394447681

Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf, 1972

Synopsis

A team of surgeons perform an operation on a violent paranoid in an attempt to electronically control his behavior

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Review:

Harry has a problem. Ever since getting in a car accident, he's suffered from "thought seizures," violent fits in which he attacks other people. He used to be an artificial intelligence researcher, which may explain why he targets anyone who either works on machines or who acts like a machine--mechanics, gas-station attendants, prostitutes, exotic dancers. But there's hope: he can become part machine himself, undergoing "Stage 3," an experimental procedure implanting 40 electrodes deep in the pleasure centers of his brain. The surgery is successful, and blissful pulses of electricity short-circuit Harry's seizures. That is, until Harry figures out how to overload himself with the satisfying jolts and escapes on a murderous rampage. One of Crichton's earliest, playing ably on '70s fears of computers and mind control. --Paul Hughes

From the Inside Flap:

Hearry Benson suffers from violent seizures. When he becomes part of an experimental program that sends electrodes to his brain to calm him, he is in recovery. Until he discovers how to get those soothing pulses more frequently, and then escapes the hopsital--on a murderous rampage with a deadly agenda....
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About this edition

• Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf
• Publication date: 1972
• ISBN 10: 0394447689
• ISBN 13: 9780394447681
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 247