Author:	James P. Hogan
Copyright:	1979
Date Reviewed:	1/24/84
Rating:	6.5

Synopsis: Computers on Earth and the moon begin to think for themselves. While there is no immediate danger, many people are concerned that the Computer systems may eventually take over, whether it understands about man or not. To answer the question, Reymond Dyer is assigned director of the Janus project. Janus is a 5000-person space station in which is installed Spartacus, a super computer. The scientist's aim is to determine how hard it will be to turn it off. They find that they can't!

Review: Its not often that I am disappointed in a Hogan story but I was disappointed with this one. First of all the book is long. While there is nothing wrong with a long book, a book twice as big as normal should have twice as much story. This doesn't. The first 200 page are all talk about the theory of intelligent computers. Then when the computer begins to take over, it does so in 20 pages. That part of the story could have been made very interesting and should have been given in more detail. The rest of the story is about fighting the computer. That part was not so interesting.