The Shockwave Rider
by John Brunner
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good /Good
- ISBN 10
- 0060105593
- ISBN 13
- 9780060105594
- Seller
-
La Mesa, California, United States
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About This Item
Harper & Row. A lovely crisp clean hardcover copy in very good condition, light sunning to top edges of boards, one lightly bumped corner. DJ in good plus condition with heavy sunning to spine, now in protective mylar cover. . Very Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 1975.
Synopsis
The Shockwave Rider is a science fiction novel by John Brunner, originally published in 1975. It is notable for its hero's use of computer cracking skills to escape pursuit in a dystopian future, and for the coining of the word "worm" to describe a program that propagates itself through a computer network.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Maxwell's House of Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 055749
- Title
- The Shockwave Rider
- Author
- John Brunner
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0060105593
- ISBN 13
- 9780060105594
- Publisher
- Harper & Row
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1975
- Pages
- 246
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾" - 9&f
- Keywords
- JOHN BRUNNER SCIENCE FICTION FIRST EDITION WHTIE WITH EXTREMELY SUNNED YELLOW KCA0331
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La Mesa, California
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