Headcrash
Bruce Bethke / Mass Market Paperback / Published September 1995
(Publisher Out Of Stock)
An account of the life of socially inept and information superhighway surfer Jack Burroughs details the truth behind his date with cute brunette Marsha Vang and his association with the ultimate evil of a modern multinational corporation-state.
Bruce Bethke / Unknown Binding / Published date unknown
(Publisher Out Of Stock)
Seriously, I wrote this one back in '88 or '89, and parts of it still hold up. The premise of the series was that it took place in a previously vacant corner of Asimov's Aurora/Robot universe, used a continuing cast of characters, and Isaac set the author (me, Jerry Oltion, William Wu, and a few others) a one-page description of a problem, which then had to be solved using the Laws of Robotics. [If you're into Asimov's Robot Novels (e.g., I, ROBOT), these books are great fun. If you aren't, they make absolutely no sense at all.] My challenge, for those of you who care, was this: what happens w...