The supercomputer EXCALIBER has, in four short years, mastered every facet of human lives, frugally parceling out meager resources and shunting individual freedoms. The machine, assuming owning all human destiny and endeavor, has determined to eliminate 90% of the human population, and 99% of her leadership. The computer has uprooted and crippled the last manifestations of capitalist democracies, and subjugates the citizenry with an ambitious global Communist empire and a fanatical Muslim ...