They'd Rather be Right

By Mark Clifton and Frank Riley 

They'd Rather be Right is a Hugo Award winning novel for 1955. It is considered by many to be the worst Hugo Award winning novel.  It follows a telepathic boy through his life as he learns his power and then builds a cybernetic brain called Bossy which can psychoanalyze people so well that they become immortal because growing old is, according to the book, only a side effect of 'tensions' which are caused by beliefs. This is just as absurd as it sounds.

This is also one of the hardest of the Hugo Award winning novels to find. It was printed in 1955, then again in the StarBlaze edition in 1982. This means that this book is actually kind of expensive even though it is very bad.

 A clip of a DS9 episode in which they make fun of a similar idea to the one in this book. Instead of 'tensions' it says boredom but its the same idea. Go to about 5:40 to see the section with him.