Vulcan's Hammer by Philip K. Dick, 1960. Working on a series of PKD titles as a personal project: After the twentieth century’s devastating series of wars, the world’s governments banded together into a globe-spanning entity, committed to peace at all costs. Ensuring that peace is the Vulcan supercomputer, responsible for all major decisions. As the world grows ever closer to all-out war, one functionary frantically tries to prevent it. But the Vulcan supercomputer has its own plans, plans that might not include humanity at all.
