Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site topaz.ARPA Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!cbosgd!cbdkc1!desoto!packard!topaz!@RUTGERS.ARPA:milazzo@rice.ARPA From: @RUTGERS.ARPA:milazzo@rice.ARPA Newsgroups: net.sf-lovers Subject: Re: Here's another book that needs identification: Message-ID: <661@topaz.ARPA> Date: Sat, 16-Feb-85 01:45:32 EST Article-I.D.: topaz.661 Posted: Sat Feb 16 01:45:32 1985 Date-Received: Tue, 19-Feb-85 06:44:25 EST Sender: daemon@topaz.ARPA Organization: Rutgers Univ., New Brunswick, N.J. Lines: 19 From: Paul Milazzo "This book starts out about a professor whose wife has left him..." The story is of course Spider Robinson's MINDKILLER, and an excerpt called "God is an Iron" appeared in OMNI Magazine. I haven't read this book in a while, but your description matches what I remember. Most readers also seem to remember either the infamous bondage scene or the continual references to Jazz performances (both have merit). Say, what ever happened to Phyllis, anyway? She just vanished, and I was sort of sorry to see her go... My copy of MINDKILLER was published in 1983 by Berkley, ISBN 0-425-06288-0, from a 1982 hardback edition by Holt, Rinehart. Paul G. Milazzo Dept. of Computer Science Rice University, Houston, TX