chip@dartvax.UUCP (Brig ) (02/17/84)
I;'ve nearly finished the alan Turing biography which was recently published (author Hodgson). I recommend it for anyone interested in Turing and/or lives of the English Eccentrics and/or a social history of homosexuality in Britain. It has quite a bit on Turing's work breaking codes in WWII, the Turing machine, his later interests in biology, etc--written by a fellow who seems to understand the technical material. A few objections. It's about twice as long as it should be--rather padded. It doesn't include a few of the wonderful Turing stories which are found (for instance) in Hugh Kenner's "The Counterfeiters" (a marvellous book on Turing, Andy Warhol, modernism, etc...) You could order it through the Goliard Bookshop, 27 N Pleasant St, Amherst Mass 01002, which is where I got my copy.