VULCAN'S HAMMER. Boston: Gregg Press, 1979. Octavo, cloth. First hardcover edition. Text offset from that of the 1960 Ace edition. New introduction by Fax Goodlife. A short novel expanded from a 1956 novelette of the same name about Vulcan 3, a giant computer to which humanity has acceded absolute power over the fate of the world. The machine is insane and kills whomever it perceives as a threat. Sargent, British and American Utopian Literature, 1516-1985, p. 274. A fine copy without dust jacket as issued. (#1901).
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"First Printing, November 1979" on copyright page.