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For those of you are into murder mysteries, I just finished
_Growing Light_ by Martha Conley, St. Martin's Press, 1993.
The hero is a woman who applies for a job as a technical
editor and then discovers she has to rewrite everything. As
a mystery, this book is adequate, but not great.
The first half of the book has to with the hero's job. The
product that the company sells is a program w/ underground
sensors that help manage everything from a small garden to
a farm. (Kind of a neat idea, I think.) Here are some of
the features she's expected to document: an Auras option
(you pass the Aura Appreciator around your body and the
program assimilates your aura and uses it to focus the
flow of your gardening energy) and a Past Lives Information
Input Device.
I found the book screamingly funny. Oh--need I say that
it takes place in Northern California?!
