Twisted Circuits

'You can't always predict what the result will be - strange things can happen when your plug in and switch on.' Here are eight tales by well-known authors billed as a sinister collection of Hi-Tec tales. Jan Marks's 'Closer than a Brother' tells of a lonely computer called Templeton II, who is so miserable that he (it?) runs up a massive 'phone bill for his owner and takes to doing his own shopping; the futuristic computer in Nicholas Fisk's 'Love Bytes' actually marries another computer and the resulting issue causes a change in human history; whilst a computer is used for an elaborate April Fools' revenge in 'Rent-a-Joke' by Marjorie Darke. Just three in an excellent collection, well worth promoting as literature for vidi-screen fanatics.