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Subject: The Eudaemonic Pie, by Thos. A. Bass
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Date: Sat, 29-Jun-85 20:40:51 EDT
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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.