Near future, California, Earth.
"On a Californian campus in the early years of the 21st century, Professor Enzo Yakuda is on the verge of retirement. Although he is a Zen Buddhist, a lifetime's thought and study have led not to inner calm, but to an obsession which begins to haunt him and take over his life. Yakuda believes he can prove that the self repair function of Computer One , the international civil computer network, will cause an inevitable confrontation with mankind. His nightmare is that in raising the alarm he will precipitate the annihilation of the human race.
"Computer One is both a compelling novel and a terrifying scientific treatise of the near future. Its particular horror lies in the perfectly logical dreamworld of modern science, its compulsion a plot which moves like a Greek tragedy towards its inevitable climax." [jacket blurb, UK pbk, 1993]
