Inside Information: Computers in Action

Inside Information: Computers in Action. Abbe Mowshowitz, ed. Reading, MA: Addison-Wesley, 1977.

Stories and excerpts from longer works on "Computers in Fiction," stressing science education, including excerpts from J. Barth's Giles Goat-Boy (q.v. under Fiction) and Elmer Rice's play The Adding Machine (1923; see title under Drama). Includes "a 34-page annotated bibliography of novels, stories, play [sic], poems, anthologies and science fiction criticism" related to computers—and a section named "Clockwork Society." Praised by Merritt Abrash in a rev., SF&FBR #16 (July-Aug. 1983): 40-41, source for this citation, and quote.