Postmaster@bbn-vax (06/30/85)
From: dm@bbn-vax.arpa What happens when a bunch of techno-hippies decide to drop out of grad school to take on roulette, armed with a KIM microcomputer strapped to their waist? The Eudaemonic Pie. This book is too good not to be mentioned in the sf-lovers' forum, and it contains a lot that would qualify it as reasonably good s.f., if it were only fiction: a bunch of Competent Men and Women, venture into a bizarre alien society, where they apply their technical know-how to a problem. This is the story of how they solved the problem, written in a gripping, lucid style reminiscent of Larry Niven unspoiled by Jerry Pournelle. AND IT'S NOT THE FIRST BOOK IN A TRILOGY! Pick this book up in the bookstore, and read the first few pages of the first chapter or introduction and see for yourself. Wow, what fun.