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Totally Unauthorized Guide to Doom II

New technologies such as CD-ROMs, faster processors, and better monitors mean that computer games are finally approaching cinema-quality graphics and sound. While just 15 years ago graphic-less “text adventures” were the ultimate in gaming, computer ... Read More »

March 16, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Science, Technology & Environment

★ Official Duke Nukem 3D Strategies and Secrets

By Jonathan Mendoza

March 16, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Science, Technology & Environment

Nattering on the Net: Women, Power and Cyberspace

By Dale Spender

Having read her bestseller Man Made Language, I expected the Australian academic and veteran feminist to tear into cyber-hype like a pitbull with a reserved spot in the dogma pound.Retry.Spender wants us to experiment on ... Read More »

March 16, 2004 | Filed under: Politics & Current Affairs

The Shockwave Rider

By John Brunner

“In this age of unprecedented information flow, people are haunted by the belief that they are actually ignorant. The stock excuse is that this is because there is literally too much to be known.” – ... Read More »

March 14, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Surviving the Information Age

By Jim Carroll

March 14, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Fuzzy Logic: Dispatches from the Information Revolution

By Matthew Friedman

March 14, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

2017: The Next Twenty Years of Your Life

By Richard Worzel

March 14, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Nerve

By Barbra Leslie

In the first chapter of this debut book, the protagonist’s mother tells her that her father died when she was a child because “he lost his nerve.” Evelyn is 15 at this point, and it’s ... Read More »

March 14, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Trap Door to Heaven

By Lesley Choyce

Lesley Choyce is a writer who likes a wide scope, having written 40 books in his 40 years. Most of us, one suspects, would have run out of things to say long before book 40. ... Read More »

March 12, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Let Me Be the One

By Elisabeth Harvor

Elisabeth Harvor published her first collection of short stories in 1973; her second, If Only We Could Live Like This Forever, appeared over a decade later after a literary silence fed by marital dissolution and ... Read More »

March 12, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Short

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