Inter Ice Age 4

Author

Kōbō Abe

Original Work

Inter Ice Age 4

Translator

E. Dale Saunders

Language

English

Year

1970

Publisher

Knopf

Country

United States

Pages

210

ISBN

9780399505195

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In this chilling, futuristic novel , Professor Katsumi of Tokyo has assembled and programmed a computer which, given all the available facts about a person or situation, can predict the future. Because a similar computer in Moscow is being used to make forecasts of a political nature, his institute's governing body decides to avoid politics and try to foresee the future of an individual. A man is picked, apparently at random, only to be murdered before he can be programmed, but the computer can still read his mind. The resulting involvements are complicated by a climactic shift--Inter Ice Age 4--which puts earth under water.— Google Books