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From: mcb@tis.llnl.gov (Michael C. Berch)
Newsgroups: alt.cyberpunk
Subject: Re: Numeromancer
Message-ID: <22112@tis.llnl.gov>
Date: 8 Apr 88 17:49:42 GMT
References: <740@virginia.acc.virginia.edu>
Reply-To: mcb@tis.llnl.gov (Michael C. Berch)
Organization: Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore CA
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In article <740@virginia.acc.virginia.edu> wpg@mendel.acc.Virginia.EDU 
(William P. Gardner) writes:
> All members of this newsgroup should look at the current
> issue of _The_New_Yorker_.  An article entitled "Numeromancer"
> is published there -- is satire truly the highest form of
> compliment?

Yeah, but Marc Laidlaw's "Nutrimancer" (in IASFM or F&SF last year)
was MUCH funnier.  Check it out.

Michael C. Berch 
mcb@tis.llnl.gov / {ames,ihnp4,lll-crg,lll-lcc,mordor}!lll-tis!mcb