His long-awaited novel, variously called The Indian Giver, Extro, and The Computer Connection, was a major disappointment—a confused farrago of old ideas and gimmicks." Patrick A. McCarthy, in a review of Carolyn Wendell's 1982 Alfred Bester, wrote that her coverage of The Computer Connection is "very brief but quite accurate in calling attention to this novel's many shortcomings."
This passage discusses a negative reception of a novel by Patrick A. McCarthy, who reviewed it for Alfred Bester. The reviewer found the novel lacking originality and relying on old ideas, while Carolyn Wendell's review was brief but accurate in pointing out these flaws.