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From: student@nmtvax.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.sf-lovers
Subject: Re: Here's another book that needs identification:
Message-ID: <277@nmtvax.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 15-Feb-85 13:50:31 EST
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Posted: Fri Feb 15 13:50:31 1985
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Reply-To: student@nmtvax.UUCP (Greg Hennessy)
Organization: New Mexico Tech, Socorro
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Summary: 

>I don't know how much this helps, but the part about the burglar and
>the woman sounds very much like a story that appeared in _OMNI_ a few
>years back.
>
>>                       . . . . . . Then he breaks into this apartment, and 
>> discovers that the tenant (a woman about 24-26) is trying to commit suicide.
>> 
>> The woman had plugged herself into the wire, and was starving herself to 
>> death. The guy unplugs her, and saves her life (she breaks his nose in the
>> process). 

The story is one by Spider Robinson entitled "Mindkiller." The
second chapter ran in "Omni" as "God is an Iron." Good book.

Sincerely;
Greg Hennessy
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