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The Shockwave Rider

By: John Brunner
Narrated by: Stefan Rudnicki
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He was the most dangerous fugitive, but didn’t exist!

Nickie Haflinger had lived several lifetimes...but technically never existed. He was originally a fugitive from Tarnover, the incredibly powerful government think tank that educated him. First he had broken his identity code - then he made his escape.

Now he needed to find a way to restore sanity and freedom to the computerized masses and save a world nearing the brink of disaster. He didn’t care how he accomplished this - but the government did. That’s when his Tarnover teachers took him back into their labs, where Nickie Haflinger was set up to receive a whole new education.

©2014 John Brunner (P)2020 by Blackstone Publishing and Skyboat Media, Inc. Adventure Post-Apocalyptic Science Fiction

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staggering overall. I read this in the eighties when it seemed like pure fantasy, now it seems like a contemporary novel

the future does arrive

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I hadn't read this for many years and was pleasantly surprised to find it when deciding to use one of my credits. I enjoy Stefan Rudnicki's reading and although some of the predicted future technologies weren't quite right, the feeling conveyed did seem familiar considering the book was written over fifty years ago.

Still very relevant...

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