Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers
From: hoey@aic.nrl.navy.mil (Dan Hoey)
Date: 13 Jan 1995 22:57:41 GMT
Subject: Re: "Hacker Books"

d...@pluto.towson.edu (Doug McNaught) writes:

> _Glory Season_, also by Brin--not very computer-related, but Life
> (as in Conway's cellular automata) is a tournament sport.

Hmm.  Twenty years after M. A. Foster did it in _The Gameplayers of
Zan_. (or was it _... Xan_?)  But Foster is quite off topic here--in
his treatment, computer simulations were prohibited.

Dan
Hoey@AIC.NRL.Navy.Mil