@RUTGERS.ARPA:fusci%netman.DEC@decwrl.ARPA (02/19/85)
From: fusci%netman.DEC@decwrl.ARPA (Ray Fusci) >From: ukma!red@topaz (Red Varth) >Subject: Here's another book that needs identification: >Date: 12 Feb 85 21:14:00 GMT > >This book starts out about a professor whose wife has left him. He >gets depressed one night, and tries to commit suicide. He's saved by >his hat. His wife is a nurse, I think. > >... > >At this point, the story shift to another person. This guy >officially doesn't exist -- he doesn't have the equivalent of a SS >number. He's a burglar by profession (and a good one, too). Then he >breaks into this apartment, and discovers that the tenant (a woman >about 24-26) is trying to commit suicide. >... and >From: ut-ngp!lindley@topaz (John L. Templer) >Subject: Re: Here's another book that needs identification: >Date: 13 Feb 85 23:43:47 GMT > >I don't know how much this helps, but the part about the burglar and >the woman sounds very much like a story that appeared in _OMNI_ a >few years back. I know, it's a pretty thin lead, but you might be >able to check at a library, or maybe a subscriber to _OMNI_ could >help you. (I let my subscription lapse, too many dumb articles on >pseudo-science.) > >> . . . . . Then he breaks into this apartment, and discovers that >> the tenant (a woman about 24-26) is trying to commit suicide. >> >> The woman had plugged herself into the wire, and was starving >> herself to death. The guy unplugs her, and saves her life (she >> breaks his nose in the process). The requested book is _MINDKILLER_, by Spider Robinson, Berkley Books, ISBN 0-425-06288-0. I've read the second chapter (more or less), somewhere else by itself. The book credits _OMNI_ with an excerpt titled "God Is an Iron", which I assume is also the second chapter (I don't read _OMNI_). Robinson does indeed credit Niven re: wire- heading. Ray Fusci UUCP: ...!decwrl!dec-rhea!dec-netman!fusci ARPA: fusci%netman.DEC@DECWRL.ARPA