wpg@mendel.acc.Virginia.EDU (William P. Gardner) (04/06/88)
All members of this newsgroup should look at the current issue of _The_New_Yorker_. An article entitled "Numeromancer" is published there -- is satire truly the highest form of compliment? William Gardner [] "All my life false and Department of Psychology [] real, right and wrong University of Virginia [] tangled." Charlottesville, VA 22903 [] - Eihei Dogen
mcb@tis.llnl.gov (Michael C. Berch) (04/09/88)
In article <740@virginia.acc.virginia.edu> wpg@mendel.acc.Virginia.EDU (William P. Gardner) writes: > All members of this newsgroup should look at the current > issue of _The_New_Yorker_. An article entitled "Numeromancer" > is published there -- is satire truly the highest form of > compliment? Yeah, but Marc Laidlaw's "Nutrimancer" (in IASFM or F&SF last year) was MUCH funnier. Check it out. Michael C. Berch mcb@tis.llnl.gov / {ames,ihnp4,lll-crg,lll-lcc,mordor}!lll-tis!mcb
soren@reed.UUCP (another allusion you probably won't get) (04/10/88)
Could someone say which *specific* issue of the New Yorker (i.e. cover date) "Numeromancer" appears in? It wasn't in "the latest issue" in the store I was in. thank you in advance -- "I understand no soren f petersen tektronix!reed!soren destructive urges, its all so perfect. . ."
oster@dewey.soe.berkeley.edu (David Phillip Oster) (04/11/88)
I was appalled by "Numeromancer". It fails the first, critical test for satire:
it wasn't funny.
Its author seemed to have no understanding of the work he was spoofing.
It's sad that a whole flock of New York pseudo-intellectuals, who get
their news from the _New_Yorker_ now think they know what the book was about.
By the way, if you'll check the archives, you'll see that I wrote about
Timothy Leary's version of _Neuromancer_ last year, when it was originally
reported in (the September issue, I think) _Computer_Language_ magazine.
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