Kevin Kelly's new book "Out of Control" is absolutely fascinating, according to Jay Machado. A 20-page extract in the spring Whole Earth Review touches on complex systems and chaos, networked economies, hive minds, artificial ecologies, and more. [jaymachado@delphi.com, 7/18/94.]

Paul Phillips is collecting recommendations for "the one book most of the world should read." finger paulp@is.internic.net or link to http://www.internic.net/~paulp/one-book.txt. [net-hap, 7/5/94.]

Neal Stephenson ("Snow Crash") has collaborated on a more realistic (and political) novel: "Interface" (Bantam, 1994). The author is listed as Stephan Bury. [Jay Machado (jaymachado@delphi.com), Bits & Bytes, 6/13/94.] (Jay liked it.)

The Science Fiction Resource Guide lists info on books, movies, television, awards, trivia, convention, and more. ftp://gandalf.rutgers.edu/pub/sfl/sf-resource.guide.html. [GNN Best of Net, http://gnn.com. Ron Pernick (ron@nrh.com), net-hap, 6/10/94.]

For details of the 1995 STAR TREK: VOYAGER series, send a "Star Trek FAQ" subject line to Jay Machado (jmachado@delphi.com). [Bits & Bytes, 6/13/94.]

SF-LIST is for discussion of the _genre_ of science fiction. Send a "subscribe sf-list your name" message to listproc@unicorn.acs.ttu.edu. [Morgan Bottrell (raven@kehleyr.phys.ttu.edu), NEW-LIST, 7/15/94. Carl Reimann, small-press.]

Computer Music Journal has a new WWW listing as file://mitpress.mit.edu:/pub/Computer-MusicJournal/CMJ.html. [Scout Report, 6/17/94.]

Adam Curry's new Music Server is http://metaverse.com/woodstock/index.html, or gopher metaverse.com. [Scout Report, 7/15/94.] (Curry used to run the MTV server.)

Noteworthy Music offers 17,000+ in-stock discount CDs through The NetMarket Company at http://www.netmarket.com/ or telnet netmarket.com. Browsing is supported, with cover pictures for many CDs. info@netmarket.com for further information. [Daniel Kohn (dan@netmarket.com), net-hap, 7/15/94.]

"Chua's Oscillator: Applications of Chaos to Sound and Music" is a WWW/Mosaic hyper-media page about the well-studied chaotic properties of Chua's Circuit. http://www.ccsr.uiuc.edu /People/gmk/Projects/ChuaSoundMusic/ChuaSoundSoftware.html. [Gottfried Mayer-Kress (gmk@pegasos.ccsr.uiuc.edu), sci.virtual-worlds, 7/15/94. Anandeep Pannu.]