smwatt (02/22/83)
Offered this month by the Science Fiction Book Club: "Bugs" by Theodore Roszak. No one on earth can stop the strange bugs that threaten the nation's vast new data-bank complex, The Brain -- except young Daphne, whose mysterious powers become the world's last hope.
guy (02/23/83)
Oh yes, I skimmed that (if you think I'd waste my valuable time actually READING it, you're crazy! I have too little time left over after wasting it on "news" as it is...); you see, little Daphne has the power to material- ize things she thinks about, and being too young to understand slang terms like "bugs in the computer" she naturally materializes swarms of bugs coming out of the computer. These bugs turn out to be nasty creatures who kill a few people and ruin various forms of machinery (including the computers); the answer, of course, is to destroy all the computers and embed them (like decomissioned reactors) in huge lumps of concrete. Mildly amusing light reading, but hardly a good critique of modern technology. Guy Harris RLG Corporation ...!decvax!mcnc!rlgvax!guy