At 08:28 AM 8/27/97 -0700, Alan wrote:

On Tue, 26 Aug 1997, luciana luciana wrote:

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I'm very interested on that. could u let me know anything else?

I picked up a copy of the book a while back.

Some of the sidenotes and off-storyline events are interesting and mildly humorous. The ending was incredibly unbelievable and anti-climatic. (The tacked on end-of-the-end was just plain stupid.) The main characters spend little time involved with the revolution they claim to be bringing about.

It does make mention of the Cypherpunks. (One of the authors was involved in the very beginning, but I have not seen her post here any time in my memory. (She claims to have coined the term "Cypherpunk".))

If you want Cyberpunk/Cypherpunk fiction, there are much better choices. Neal Stephenson (sp?) is a good choice. ("Snow Crash" and the short story "Hacking the Spew" are two of my favorites from him.)

If you do get "How to mutate...", wait until it comes out in paperback. Then you won't feel as cheated as I did when i finished the book.

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The author who claims that is St. Jude, AKA Judith Milton, she is a former UNIX programmer who is also absent from the MUT home page. The book itself is a little large for a paperback version, you have to read the warning about the broken "scrapbook" method and remember that these people are humor writers. I grabbed a copy probably 3 months after it was released. The dust cover is very flimsy, has it improved? There is a web site dedicated to the book, HTTP://www.onworld.com:80/MUT The site is a shambles right now but I was told that they were going to try to salvage it after the holiday weekend. When it is working it has a nice web-based bulliten board, with some threading, and way too many "how do I hack" questions. There are a few good gems and some people very much in line with those here, however. It's worth a visit, but give it a little while and see if they get the bulliten boards back on line. It is over 18 months old, I have been visiting it off and on for about a year.