High Wizardry
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Cover Story
Our cover illustration this month is by Shirley Hughes from The Big Alfie Out of Doors Storybook (see her article in this issue), published by Bodley Head (0 370 31516 2) at £8.99. We thank them for their help in reproducing an illustration from the book.
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High tech fantasy. The computer game is exploited with chapter headings making word play from computer jargon and computers themselves occupying a large part in the plot. Here, asking the computer to 'copy' creates a second computer one planet is a large silicon chip ... The book runs as part of a sequence and has the feel of television adventures in some of the setting up but, once in the midst of the fantasy, the writer creates very intense scenes of wit-battling.
