Andromeda Breakthrough

From the dead constellation of Andromeda flashed continuously a long and intensely complicated message. Picked up during hte testing of the world's most powerful radiotelescope, it proved to be a blueprint of a computer so advanced that it made all earth-built computers seem like children's counting beads and even produced a thinking, living human being to interpret its needs. Could this be part of a fantastic plan to take over the earth?

This brilliantly conceived novel explores what happens when the computer is used to further the world ambitions of the dictator of a tiny desert state and of the unscrupulous commerical organisation INTEL. The terrible combinations of ignorance of the machine's purpose and insane advarice brings the world to disaster. Huge storms rage across the continents, epidemics break out in cities devastated by floods and everywhere people begin to die from lack of oxygen. The incredible achievements of the computer had masked one small formula, which was changing the oxygen balance of the air. Was this the last step in the plan?

The fast moving action and scientific accuracy interact continuously. If this is science fiction at its best, Andromeda Breakthrough has all the ingredients which made A for Andromeda a best-selling novel in England and America and in all the many European countries where translations were published.

The originality of Professor Hoyle combined with John Elliot's flair for dramatic presentation has produced exciting science fiction of surprises, pace and suspense.