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| 27 Oct 2025 | |
| Written by Chloe Sawbridge | |
| Blog |
This month's Book of the Month is Computer One by Warwick Collins (MR 1962-66)
About the Book
On a California campus in the early years of the twenty-first 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 that he can prove that the self-repair function of Computer One, the international civil computer network which runs just about everything on the planet, will cause an inevitable confrontation with mankind. His nightmare, however, is that in raising the alarm about this hidden danger he will inevitably precipitate the annihilation of the entire human race.
Computer One is both a compelling novel and a terrifying scientific treatise on the near future. Its particular horror lies in the perfectly logical dreamworld of modern scientific theory, its compulsion deriving from a plot which moves like a Greek tragedy towards its chillingly inevitable climax.
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About the OKS Author
Warwick Collins attended King’s in Marlowe House from 1962 to 1966. Since leaving King’s, Warwick was awarded his BA degree in Biology from The University of Sussex, became a yacht designer, invented and patented the tandem keel, and published ten books both in the fiction and non-fiction genres.
Computer One was published in 1993 and is avaliable to purchase from Amazon
