Niven, Larry

Niven, Larry. "Gates (Variations)." In Gateways. Ed. Elizabeth Anne Hull. New York: Tom Doherty Associates, 2010. "A Tor Book" festschrift in honor of Frederik Pohl. Pp. [123]-27.

Embedded computer worlds, with the Bill Gates of our world — if Erlich reads the story correctly — an avatar of a William Gates interfaced via "the Solipsist program" with "the Kaiser supercomputer" of a higher-level world (125). Appropriately for the festschrift, the story is a variety of Pohl-ish "velocity exercise," with a light tone (cf. Pohl's "Day Million").

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