Stand on Zanzibar

'''Brunner, John. Stand on Zanzibar.''' Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1968. New York: Ballantine, 1969.

Shalmaneser, the computer, becomes "a sort of mechanical Messias [sic]," in many ways (mostly ironic) the ruler and savior of his world. See under Literary Criticism the essay by M. Stern.