Random Access

'''Melton, Erick. "Random Access."' Aboriginal S. F.'' Sept.-Oct. 1990: 56 f.

Psychotherapy session with a computer, who tells the programmer patient, "If I may make an analogy from your own profession, what we are doing is similar to debugging an errant program. Removing everything which compromises the efficient operation of the application" (61): the procedure is successful. Cf. and contrast the memory editing in Robert Silverberg's "Sundance" (1969), and the computer shrink in F. Pohl's Gateway and Beyond the Blue Event Horizon, and the psychological procedure in J. Haldeman's All My Sins Remembered (all nondated works cited in this Category).