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From: peter@nexus.yorku.ca (Peter Roosen-Runge)
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Subject: Re: ECCENTRIC SPACES, by Robert Harbison -- A Must-Read
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Date: 20 Dec 90 04:29:20 GMT
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cyberoid@milton.u.washington.edu (Robert Jacobson) writes:

>A relatively new book highly recommended to virtual world builders
>and explorers:
> 
> ECCENTRIC SPACES, by Robert Harbison.  Boston:  David R. Godine, 1988. $10.95

I'd like to second Jacobson's recommendation of ECCENTRIC SPACES. It's
isn't however new -- I think it was published by Knopf in 1977. My copy
is from 1980 and cost $2.50 :-).  In addition to the general relevance
for 'virtual world builders', the last chapter "Contracted World: Museums and
Catalogs" has very interesting things to say to people interested in the
implications and presuppositions of hypertext.

                          Peter Roosen-Runge
                          Dept. of Computer Science
                          York University, Toronto