Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site ames.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxj!ihnp4!zehntel!dual!ames!bub From: bub@ames.UUCP (Bubbette McLeod) Newsgroups: net.sf-lovers Subject: Piers Anthony - MACROSCOPE Message-ID: <529@ames.UUCP> Date: Mon, 17-Sep-84 14:29:53 EDT Article-I.D.: ames.529 Posted: Mon Sep 17 14:29:53 1984 Date-Received: Tue, 25-Sep-84 09:19:11 EDT Organization: NASA-Ames Research Center, Mtn. View, CA Lines: 11 With all this pro-ing and con-ing of Piers Anthony nobody has mentioned Macroscope, which I thought was just great. The concept of the signal from space that would drive you crazy only if you were above a certain level of intelligence was particularly intriguing (I mean, what would it contain be?). Is Macroscope out of print (I read it a long time ago) or did I just miss any remarks about it? I think most of his other stuff is too similar. He seems to have a sort of standard plot and characters and just changes the situations, location, and brand of aliens. Bub {dual,hao,ihnp4,philabs,vortex}!ames!bub