Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site topaz.ARPA Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!cbosgd!cbdkc1!desoto!packard!topaz!Postmaster@bbn-vax From: Postmaster@bbn-vax Newsgroups: net.sf-lovers Subject: The Eudaemonic Pie, by Thos. A. Bass Message-ID: <2446@topaz.ARPA> Date: Sat, 29-Jun-85 20:40:51 EDT Article-I.D.: topaz.2446 Posted: Sat Jun 29 20:40:51 1985 Date-Received: Sun, 30-Jun-85 03:40:16 EDT Sender: daemon@topaz.ARPA Organization: Rutgers Univ., New Brunswick, N.J. Lines: 18 From: dm@bbn-vax.arpa 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.