Book description
It looked remarkably like a sterile, cold metallic coffin. It was the
Intuitive Computer, a fantastic invention that would allow a user to
assume the identity of any historical figure - Napoleon, Cleopatra,
Hitler - anyone who ever existed. The possessor of this top-secret
device would be able to witness the building of the pyramids, the
crucifixion, the discovery of America. The Intuitive Computer would
revolutionise the studies of history, archaeology, anthropology; it
would eventually revolutionise the entire entertainment and leisure
industry. The lives of every person on Earth would be changed because of
it. IT WAS PROBABLY THE MOST DANGEROUS INVENTION IN THE HISTORY OF THE
HUMAN RACE. Mack Reynolds (1917-1983) Dallas McCord ('Mack') Reynolds
was born in California in 1917. His father was the Socialist Labor Party
Presidential Candidate on two occasions, and Reynolds' life and work
were deeply affected by his political upbringing. After early careers in
newspapers and computing, Reynolds returned from the Second World War
and began to write science fiction. Based in Mexico but travelling
widely in his role as Travel Editor for a men's magazine, he started
slowly but surely to sell his work. Mack Reynolds wrote the first Star
Trek novel, Mission to Horatius, and was once voted Most popular SF
Author by the readers of Galaxy Science Fiction magazine. He died in
1983.
