The Stochastic Man

by Robert Silverberg

 
 
Year
1976
Publisher
Fawcett
Country
USA
Pages
240
Media
Mass market paperback
ISBN
0-449-13570-5
Cover art
Unknown

Blurb

Lew Nichols' business, at the end of the twentieth century, was stochastic prediction — high-powered guesswork. He was very good at this well-paying, sophisticated, and technical species of witchcraft. And he was quite content with the sultry and sensuous Indian beauty he married.

Lew Nichols' life was a placid as an electron flow — until a fateful day in March '99 when he met Martin Carvajal. From the first, Lew got strange vibrations from the sullen and eccentric millionaire:

Your computer models, said Carvajal, allow you to guess the future. Now I will show you how to control it!

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