Inter Ice Age 4 Kobo Abe

Description

Inter Ice Age 4′ is a chilling, futuristic novel by one of Japan’s greatest living writers. It is the account of Professor Katsumi of Tokyo who has assembled and programmed a computer which, given all the available facts about a person or situation, can predict the future. Because a similar computer in Moscow is being use to make forecasts of a political nature, his institute’s governing body decides to avoid politics and try to forsee the future of an individual. A man is picked, apparently at random, only to be murdered before he can be programmed, but the computer can still read his mind. The resulting involvements are complicated by a climactic shift–Inter Ice Age 4–which puts earth under water.