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From: oster@dewey.soe.berkeley.edu (David Phillip Oster)
Newsgroups: alt.cyberpunk
Subject: Re: Numeromancer
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Date: 10 Apr 88 21:15:14 GMT
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I was appalled by "Numeromancer". It fails the first, critical test for satire:
it wasn't funny.

Its author seemed to have no understanding of the work he was spoofing.
It's sad that a whole flock of New York pseudo-intellectuals, who get
their news from the _New_Yorker_ now think they know what the book was about.

By the way, if you'll check the archives, you'll see that I wrote about
Timothy Leary's version of _Neuromancer_ last year, when it was originally
reported in (the September issue, I think) _Computer_Language_ magazine.

--- David Phillip Oster            --When you asked me to live in sin with you
Arpa: oster@dewey.soe.berkeley.edu --I didn't know you meant sloth.
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