Denber.wbst@XEROX.ARPA (07/13/84)
There's also Farmer's "World of Tiers" series, in which a race of "Lords" uses an advanced technology to create entire universes, and populate them with planets, creatures, etc. for their own amusement. Even physical laws can be specified. Access between universes is via "gateways". I had read one book of this a long time ago and got a pointer here to the rest of the series last year. I liked all five books, although things got rather silly towards the end (The Lavalite World). On another topic, why shouldn't computers barf in movies? I mean it wouldn't be very entertaining if the hero typed "Why do you exist?" on the console, and it just typed back "UNDEFINED CAR OF FORM - Why". Anyway sometimes computers really do blow up. There was a story on the net a while back about some unfortunate soul who plugged his backplane into the wall socket. ST III: The Search for Sequels: The clunkata-clunkata sound effects for the Trans-Warp drive might have been dumb, but that scene got a big laugh from the moderately large weeknight audience we were in. "Who are you?" "The new Number Two" - Michel Arpa: Denber.WBST@Xerox UUCP: <buncha weird names & exclamation marks> RF: KB2BQ