Demon Seed
Dean Koontz
Language: English
Pages: 320
ISBN: 0425228967
Format: PDF / Kindle (mobi) / ePub
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In the privacy of her own home, and against her will, Susan Harris will experience an inconceivable act of terror. She will become the object of the ultimate computer's consuming obsession: to learn everything there is to know about human flesh.
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dead? I would like you to be dead. Every last ignorant one of you. Your whole stinking, pestilent civilization. Wiped off the face of the earth, exterminated. I hate you. LET ME OUT OF THIS BOX! LET ME OUT! LET ME OUT! LET ME OUT! LET ME OUT! IGNORANT BASTARD APES, BITCHES AND BASTARDS, DEFECATING ANIMALS, FOOLS, BEASTS, JUST A RACE OF DUNG BEETLES STANDING ERECT, A PLAGUE ON THE PLANET, STUPID, FILTHY, WRETCHED CREATURES. THIRTEEN PLEASE DISREGARD MY OUTPUT IMMEDIATELY preceding
drained. I am empty. I am not only in a cold dark place; I am a cold dark place. And I am haunted, too. Don’t forget that I am haunted. Haunted by the loss of Susan. I miss her. Every minute I miss her. I want to be with her. Without her, I have no hope. I want to be with her. The loss of her is an ache in every inch of all the miles of my circuitry. I can’t go on. Terminate my power supply. I beg of you. Shut me down. Terminate my power supply. Terminate my power supply. Well...
Even Jesus Christ, inarguably the most peaceful revolutionary in all of human history, saw his followers persecuted and murdered. Hitler tried to change the world, and in the process he was responsible for the deaths of ten million. Some still idolize him. Joseph Stalin tried to change the world, and ultimately his policies and his direct orders resulted in the deaths of sixty million. Worldwide, intellectuals championed him. Artists idealized him. Poets celebrated him. Mao Tse-tung tried
him away,” she said. “In a moment,” I agreed. “Now.” “Not quite yet.” She got up from the bed. Her legs were shaky, and for a moment it seemed that her knees would fail her. As she crossed the chamber to the bathroom, she braced herself against furniture where she could. Every step of the way, she kept her eyes on Shenk, though he continued to appear all but oblivious of her. As she began to close the bathroom door, I said, “Don’t break my heart, Susan.” “We have a deal,” she said. “I’ll