Totally Unauthorized the 11th Hour: Solutions

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

Return to Zork: The Official Guide to the Great Underground Empire

By Peter Spear

March 16, 2004 | Filed under: 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

2017: The Next Twenty Years of Your Life

By Richard Worzel

“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

Fuzzy Logic: Dispatches from the Information Revolution

By Matthew Friedman

March 14, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

Surviving the Information Age

By Jim Carroll

March 14, 2004 | Filed under: Fiction: Novels

The Shockwave Rider

By John Brunner

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

Cloning Miranda

By Carol Matas

Fourteen-year-old Miranda has it all and more: beauty, talent, wealthy adoring parents, an irresistible best friend…and a fatal genetic disease. Her formerly flawless life unravels at a furious clip as her parents set about “curing” ... Read More »

March 14, 2004

No Orchids for Andrea!

By Chrystine Brouillet, Nathalie Gagnon, illus., Linda Gaboriau, trans.

After their recent success in unravelling enigmatic Oriental secrets in The Chinese Puzzle, Andrea and Arthur move on to botanical skullduggery in the second in a new mystery series by Quebec writer Chrystine Brouillet. Andrea, ... Read More »

March 14, 2004 | Filed under: Children and YA Fiction

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