VULCAN'S HAMMER
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1960 Ace edition

Vulcan 3 was the supreme head of unity, the perfect world government that has evolved out of chaos and war. Vulcan 3 was rational, objective and unbiased... as only a machine could be!

Theoretically there should have been nothing but peace under such a rule-and for a century or so there was. Until the crackpots, the superstitious, the religious fanatics found themselves a new leader to follow.

Then the discontent began to explode again. But this time there was a third side involved, a machine that could not accept any emotional of viewpoints. The people of the world began to realize that they had created a vicious paradox: they had to make peace between themselves or be stamped out by the ever-growing claws of Vulcan's Hammer.

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1972 Ace edition

The artificial intelligence called Vulcan 3 ruled the human race, more than a machine, less than a god. It had lifted mankind out of the dark pre-Machine ages. It had ended war, unemployment and poverty . . . but it'had not ended the most corrosive of fears, the fear of Vulcan 3 itself. At first those who feared it were dismissed as crackpots and religious fanatics. Then the world learned what terror meant as the deadly, gleaming messengers of death appeared, soaring through the air to strike down friends and foes of Vulcan 3 alike. Who ruled them? What was the strange force that wielded- VULCAN'S HAMMER

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1976 Arrow edition

VULCAN 3 - the supreme computer. It was autonomous, self-servicing - and sentient. A machine whose cold, dispassionate logic had freed the world from war and poverty. When Vulcan ignores all questions concerning the Healers - a fanatical group dedicated to Vulcan's destruction - Director Barris becomes suspicious. The world government has been infiltrated - but by whom? Barris investigates, but Vulcan has already devised a solution of its own - and the winged terror of Vulcan's Hammer is unleashed on the world. Hallucinatory science fiction from the author of The Man In The High Castle and Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?