Bugs [Hardcover]

Theodore Roszak (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: 1981

Nobody could have imagined that information technology, the towering colossus that dominates our world, would meet its match in an innocent, six-year-old girl named Daphne. Yet the vengeful horror that this psychically gifted child lures out of the secret recesses of the world's computers rapidly grows into a global calamity. As the crisis deepens, powers darker and more mysterious than modern science can understand must be invoked in order to defend a threatened humanity. In Bugs, Theodore Roszak offers a tour de force exercise in science fiction. He ingeniously combines the divergent worlds of high tech, the occult, and feminist psychology. With admirable ambiguity, he leaves us to wonder if Daphne's "bugs"-these arcane forces that stubbornly resist the advance of technology-are mankind's enemies or allies.

--This text refers to the Paperback edition.

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About the Author

Theodore Roszak is the author of The Making of a Counter Culture, Where The Wasteland Ends, Voice of the Earth, and The Cult of Information. His novels Flicker and The Memoirs of Elizabeth Frankenstein are under option for major motion pictures. He has been a Guggenheim Fellow and was twice nominated for the National Book Award. He lives in Berkeley, California. --This text refers to the Paperback edition.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 352 pages
• Publisher: Doubleday; 1st edition (1981)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0385174101
• ISBN-13: 978-0385174107
• Product Dimensions: 8 x 5.8 x 1.2 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,424,261 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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Theodore Roszak (1933-2011) was the author of fifteen books, including the 1969 classic "The Making of a Counter Culture." He was professor emeritus of history at California State University, and lived in Berkeley, California.

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5.0 out of 5 stars "prophetic" glimpse of cyber-terror before "cyber" was coined, September 19, 2009

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B. Hennessy "anotherhuman" (USA) - See all my reviews
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This is a very cool story! You might think it outlandish to imagine actual physical insects feeding on computer networking equipment, but consider that there are all kinds of microbes that feed on pretty much anything from oil, to iron, and, why the heck not computer cable!

Very cool to read this as it was written WAY before global networking was feasible - what with 300 baud modems!?!?!

Well-written and enjoyable read. Fun - good sci-fi schtik.

4.0 out of 5 stars Beats me why this hasn't become a movie, November 28, 2010

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This review is from: Bugs (Hardcover)

The technology is dated, but the story is a terrific mix of science fiction, big government politics, religion and occult fantasy. Well worth reading.