STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION INTERACTIVE TECHNICAL MANUAL by Simon & Schuster Interactive, 1230 Avenue of the Americas, New York, NY 10020, (212) 698-7000, $69.95
When I heard about a CD-ROM published by Simon & Schuster titled Star Trek: The Next Generation Inter
active Technical Manual, my first thought was ``shovelware.'' In 1991, Pocket Books published Star Trek: The Next Generation Technical Manual.
- by Tom Thompson
FLUID CONCEPTS AND CREATIVE ANALOGIES: COMPUTER MODELS OF THE FUNDAMENTAL MECHANISMS OF THOUGHT by Douglas H
ofstadter and the Fluid Analogies Research Group, Basic Books, ISBN 0-465-05154-5, $30
Fifteen years ago, Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid exploded on the literary scene, earning its author a Pulitzer prize and a monthly column in Scientific American.
- by JON UDELL
UNAUTHORIZED WINDOWS 95 by Andrew Schulman IDG Books, ISBN 1-56884-305-4, $39.99
Hacker/sleuth extraordinaire Andrew Schulman loves to spelunk in the dark and cobwebby cellar on which Microsoft's software empire rests.
- by Jon Udell
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