ELECTRONIC PUBLICATIONS AVAILABLE FROM SERENDIPITY SYSTEMS P.O. Box 140 San Simeon, Califorina 93452 NOTE #1: Unless stated otherwise, all disks require MS-DOS 2.1 or greater and 256K of memory. NOTE #2: Prices listed below apply only to copies ordered directly from Serendipity Systems. Different prices may be in effect for copies purchased at retail outlets (computer stores, book stores, etc.) or through on-line services. NOTE #3: Some publications are only available on 1.44MB disks. BOOKS-ON-DISKS Editions ___Serendipity Anthology [Excrpts/demo]..................$ 4.00 A collection of excerpts from BOOKS-ON-DISKS editions. Requires 128K memory ___Baby April [Novel] (2 disks).......................... 10.00 A science fiction novel retelling the Galatea Myth, but updated to include aestetics, politics, liberated women, and a whole range of contemporary subjects. Requires 128K memory NOTE: New - 2nd edition available on 720K disks. Requires 256K memory. ___Baby April [2nd edition] ............................. 10.00 ___The Deer Hunters [Novella]............................ 6.00 The Deer Hunters appears to detail the initiation of a young man into the intracracies and rites of the sportsman by the colorful guide Zacc Traylor. However, in the manner of E.A. Poe, the fact of time, place, and circumstance are nebulously left to the reader's imagination as the full horror of the tale unfolds. Requires 256K memory. (2nd. Edition) ___LeFeu [Novel] (2 disks)............................... 10.00 Follow the picaresque misadventures of Rene LeFeu, revolutionary, master chef, smuggler, lover, and (alas, above all else) klutz, as he and his friends travel from rural Canada to Texas, Mexico, Ireland, Saudi Atrabia, and eventually back to Canada. Requires 128K memory. NOTE: New - 2nd edition available on 720K disks. Requires 256K memory. ___LeFeu [2nd edition] .................................. 10.00 ___King Jack and the Girl With the Sunshne Smile [Novel] (3 disks) ............................... 12.00 This is a Medieval tale of romance, intrigue, and adventure. Follow the lives of Jack and Lory as they encounter poets, painters, cloistered nunneries, priests, invaders, agricultural inovaters, and chastity belt makers. Requires 128K memory. ___A Maine Yankee at Big Sur [Novel] (2 disks) .......... 10.00 Jake's adventures among the hipsters, hucksters, hypesters, and hempsters reveal the secrets of art, fishing, and guerrilla agriculture on the coast of California. Step aside Kerouac, Brautigan, and Miller, this is the definitive Big Sur novel! Requires 128K memory ___Jake's Best Seller [Novel] - includes LeFeu as a novel-within-a-novel (4 disks) .................. 16.00 Amid the choas and contretemps of a New England boarding house for students, Jake Jacobs is challenged to write a best seller by his former English teacher and present landlord. The work he crafts is the picaresque tale of Rene LeFeu's klutzy misadventures. Requires 128K memory ___The Hypertext Hamlet ................................. 6.00 Shakespeare's "The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark," plus hundreds of notes and word definitions instantly available through hypertext jumps. Requires 640K memory ___Electronic Books in Print ............................ 6.00 This hypertext reference work lists electronic on-disk and on-line publications. It also features programs to make electronic publications and includes excerpts from many of the books. It is indexed by author, title, book category, and subject. All information is instantly available through hypertext jumps. Requires 640K memory. ___Force of Habit ...................................... 9.95 All she wanted was a new outfit and a breath of fresh air. Was that too much to ask? Yes, Bel Schuster discovers when the outfit belongs to an extortion victim who thinks Bel is an undercover cop, the air is an alien planet's, and Schuster has just blundered into a web of interplanetary crime and high-level political intrigue. ___Eel's Revenge ........................................ 9.95 The pool teems with sea-people; a priest holds a knife to the body of one of the young. The land-people are walled out by apathy, stone, and guards. Only the wits of octogenerian Aunt Libby stands between the people and a holocause that could mark their society for the rest of history. ___SPECIAL PACKAGE: Both ~Force of Habit~ and ~Eel's Revenge~, Marian Allen's first two novels, for only ........... $15.00 ___Costa Azul By C.J. Newton ............................ 9.95 Welcome to Costa Azul, the Portuguese-speaking country where you will meet: Justice Alberto Campos, who is on a quest for the perfect cup of coffee, Esquivel Campeche, Don Martin Martin, Leon Neon ... and Officer Soares, whose arrest of an automobile for murder sets the stage for this zany satire of lawyers, academics, and bureaucrats. Illustrated edition. Requires a hard drive; VGA to view the graphics. Shipped on 1.44MB disks. COMING SOON ... in 1995 ___Silicon Karma by Tom Easton .......................... 9.95 Immortality, the ultimate virtual reality ... "It's getting worse." Rose said "First, litter in the streets. Old cars. Abandoned buildings. Bums. Now, even the air is going bad. Before long, this place will be just like home.... We didn't pay to move into another shitty world. We paid for paradise. They told us we'd have everything we could wish for, and we'd have it forever." ___Sideshow by Marian Allen .............................. Allen's third science fiction novel. =============================================================== SHAREWARE DISKS 1 shareware disk: [ordered separately] $4.00, postpaid 1 to 5 shareware disks: $3.00 each, postpaid 6 to 10 shareware disks: $2.75 each, postpaid More than 10 shareware disks: $2.50 each, postpaid Shareware Magazines ___ShareDebate International #1 This is a journal of very conservative economics. Articles include: "The Downfall of Communism and the Success of the Computer Industry," "The Olympics as a Model for Political Elections ..." and more. ___ShareDebate International #2 Articles include: "Entrepreneural Democracy," "Futuristic Currency Exchange Systems to Fight Drug Abuse," & more. ___ShareDebate International #3 "An Indepth Analysis of NIPS ..." "Four Steps to Freedom," "Against Value-less Education," an excerpt from Ben Bova's CYBERBOOK, and more articles. ___ShareDebate International #4 Articles by Milton Friedman, R.H. Martin, Ben Bova, Murrary Rothbard, J. Neil Schulman, Jerry Pournelle, and George Gilder. ___ShareDebate International #5 & #6 [2 disk set] "Desert Storm: Lessons from History," "Analysis of NIPS/FIPS," "Cosmos Helps those who Help Themselves," "Understanding the S & L Debacle," and other articles. ___ShareDebate International #7 & #8 [2 disk set] "Health Costs," "The Faith of an Age," "The Myth of the Trade Deficit," "We Have Socialism, Q.E.D." "Statistics, Lies, and Computer Tape," plus other articles. ___Electronic Publishing Forum #1 This is a quarterly magazine on writing, electronic publishing, and literature. This issue includes information on UserWare, Writers Online, Serendipity Systems, and High Mesa Publishing. ___Electronic Publishing Forum #2 Information on ShareDebate Magazine, SoftServ Publishing, and Bookware is featured; an anticle on The Electronic Book. ___Electronic Publishing Forum #3 BPlan Virtuals featured; an Electronic Poem; short stories and friction from Fels, Mars, Franxman, and Peter. ___Electronic Publishing Forum #4 Electronmic Publishing programs reviewed: IRIS, PC-BOOK, and HYPERREZ; Access Publishing featured; disk-based books in print listed. ___Electronic Publishing Forum #5 Sherlock Holmes story plus review; interactive fiction article; new SoftServ books; publishing on non-IBM systems, plus reviews. ___Electronic Publishing Forum #6 Reviews of Micro Home Linbrary, Postmodern Culture Magazine, Save the Planet; beta copy of "The Hypertext Hamlet" (Shakespeare's play in hypertext.) ___Electronic Publishing Forum #7 Information of DiskTop Publishing Association (DPA); review of "Publishing in the 21st Century;" program reviews: DART, READ.COM, HyText, and LookBook. ___Electronic Publishing Forum #8 Features RUBY'S PEARLS, fiction magazine, Another Company, articles on "Who's who in Electronic Publishing," "Software Packaging," and more. ___Electronic Publishing Forum #9 [2 disk set] Features DPA News, a beta copy of ELECTRONIC BOOKS IN PRINT, an article on shareware publishing, and more. (3 360K disks compressed onto 2 floppies.) ___Electronic Publishing Forum #10 [2 disk set] Reviews and copies of COZY READER and ORPHEUS: DPA News; review of "Trilobyte Stew" (short stories) and more. (5 360K disketted compressed onto 2 floppies.) ___Electronic Publishing Forum #11 [2 disk set] Eight book or program reviews; two fiction excerpts; information on publishing for the visually impared; new book listings, plus evaluation copies of "Garlic Magic" and Overbyte Magazine," and a half-dozen utiltiy programs. (4 360K diskettes compressed onto 2 floppies.) ___Electronic Publishing Forum #12 [2 disk set] New science fiction from V. Pauli and an adult detective novel by C. Moon; complete information on The Digital Publishing Association (DPA); Packaging for electronic books; reviews of electronic publishing programs, and more. (4 360K floppies compressed onto 2 floppies.) ___Electronic Publishing Forum #13 [2 disk set] Reviews of DC Gold electronic publishing program collection, HyperHelper, Writer's Dream, Electronic Computer Glossary; articles on electronic newspapers and new literary genres; the latest electronic books listed; evaluation copies of software; and more. (3 360K disks compressed onto 2 floppies.) ___Electronic Publishing Forum #14 [2 disk set] Reviews of HyperRead, The Electronic Review, How the Mind Works ..., Orpheus, Uprisings in Libertyville, USA, Condor; Excerpts from Writer's Electronic Publishing Kit, and Collapse of the American Mind; News from the DPA and on-line services; New Electronic Books in Print; Plus bundled shareware programs, and more. ___Electronic Publishing Forum #15 [2 disk set] Information on distribution systems, Internet magazines, reviews of books from Tom Welch Financial, Lexikon, Frank Camper Productions, software reviews, new electronic books listed, plus more. ___Electronic Publishing Forum #16 [720K or larger disk] New hypertext and multimedia features. Topics covered include hypertext, graphics, the Internet, programming, and more. ___Electronic Publishing Forum #17 [720K or larger disk] Features information on hypertext fiction, bar codes for books, reviews of text editors, CD-ROM discs, and publishing programs, plus fiction excerpts, news, opinion, and more. Illustrated edition; requires VGA to view graphics--text may be read with any monitor. ___Electronic Publishing Forum #18 Available after 2/1/95 ___Electronic Publishing Forum SUBSCRIPTION 1 year/4 issues for $12.00, postpaid to USA addresses ___Insights - Journal of a Computer Industry Observer, Vol.1 A collection of articles by DPA founder Ron Albright focusing mostly on computer communications issues. Text displayed by IRIS. ___Overbyte #1 Articles on "Entertainment Tonight," Ben Stein (Nixon's favorite Nerd), Seniors and Computers, Gospel music, photographer Sid Avery, plus reviews and a fiction excerpt. ___Media Link #1 Article on: fractal graphics; six software reviews; news reports. Requires 1.2MB or hard drive; 640K memory, VGA monitor. ___The Video Store This is a review magazine that features mulit-media animation and sound, plus real-time animation of film clips from a variety of video sources. Requires: a 286 or better computer, VGA monitor, a hard drive, and Windows 3.0 or 3.1 SHAREWARE BOOKS ___Southern Discomfort [Novel] (720K or larger disks only) Mark Hamilton uses every device at his disposal to subvert the rules and buy a seat on the County Commission so that he can control all of Neuton County; Journalist Gale Morgan investigates, but the power brokers will stop at nothing to prevent her from exposing their plot. ___Survey Land Yourself [Reference] (2 disks) You can survey it yourself, quickly, easily, and inexpensively. Plot your deed, find lost corners and lines, calculate acreage, and write land descriptions. This book explains how, plus much more. ___The Daydreamer [Novel] In the year two thousand thirty-four, after worldwide devistation, a highly specialized hiostorian of eighty-four intellectually stimulating years will, at long last, sit down at an underground computer and programm it to go into hands-off mode to explain everything to the next person who finds the computer. ___Waste Not, Want Not [Philisophical essay] Consider the Garden of Eden. Food for picking. A climate with no extremes. Tranquility, Harmony.... a philosophical fable from Dan deParto. ___Storydisk [Children's stories] "Peddlar Polly and the Giant," Princess Savitri," "The Legend of Lightning Larry," "Kings for Breakfast," and other children's stories by Aaron Shepard. ___Everglade [Hypertext poem] This is a hypertext poem by Rod Willmot This is a gunboat poem. adrift on the slow black stream of someone's unsuspected house turned everglade. Doorways open, to ponds with more doorways ... ___Love's Fiery Imbroglio (Lovefire) [Interative novel] Interactive romance fiction from Natisha Mirage. "It is a dreary day in (your city). You stand at the window and watch the rain splattering against the glass. Nothing's gone right today. You nicked yourself quite badly while shaving your legs, and you ruined a good pair of nylons. That'll teach you to shave with nylons on! "Rain, rain, rain! What's the use. Turning around you spot a big pile of laundry that you've been trying to avoid ..." What do you do? a) I do my laundry, b) I keep staring out the window. [Enter your choice.]" Different stories will be told demending upon this and other choices that you, the reader, make. ___Oxy-Acetylene Welding [Technical] This is a tutoring program for torch welding. It includes information on cutting steel and brazing techniques. The concepts are illustrated with graphics. Requires: 640K memory and a CGA or better graphics monitor. ___Better Volleyball [Sports] This is an introduction to the game of volleyball. The tutorial includes graphics and animation to explain stratagies for playing the game. Requires 640K memory, and a cga or better monitor. ___Bicycle Tune-up [Technical] This tutorial will help bicycle riders keep their machines in first class condition. Author Jeff Napier was a builder of bicycle frames. Concepts are illustrated with graphics. Rewquires 640K memory and a CGA or better monitor. ___Almanac 1992 [Reference] This disk contains a cornucopia of information, facts, and trivia about food, transportation, animals, history, science, technology, predictions, and more. ___21st Century Almanac [Reference] This is a menu-driven compendium of useful information, including conversion tabels for area, weight, temperature, measurements, and much more. ___Uncle Rhino's Shorts [Short Stories & Poems] Short stories include: "Dad's Pickup," "Knight's Dearm," "The Frog Prince," "The Birdlover's Holiday," "The World's fastest Spider," and more. ___Clowning for Fun & Profit [How-to book] Zucchini The Clown tells you how to be a clown and keep children entertained. Practical tips on dealing with kids are included. ___A New Chenical Philosophy [Science Fiction] This is an alternative universe science fiction tale where the alchemists won the Scientific Revolution, where science is magic, where "acid" takes you on trips with the enigmatic Native American shaman George Two Ways. ___Indians Scattered on Dawn's Highway Bleeding [Science Fiction] Peyote worshipers, scorcers, priests, and alternative universes: a tale of culture clash where the indians invented magical science and put the white man on reservations. ___Publishing in the 21st Century [Reference] This is the definitive hypertext book on electronic publishing from the founder of the DPA, Ron Albright. It primarily focuses on floppy disk publishing, but includes CD-ROM and other media. Note: Compressed files. Requires two 360K drives, or one 720 (or larger) drive and 640K of memory. ___The Pack [Novel] An anthropology student thinks she has discovered a scientific explaination for werewolves in an ancient vilklage in the Romanian mountains. Then people suddenly start dying and Professor Dave Haughten has to investigate the situation in this action/adventure novel from Mack Tanner. ___The Pride [Novel] Psychic powers, murder, seductive women, and an ancient tribe with a taste for human blood are featured in this action/adventure novel from M. Tanner. ___Pose for a Model [Novel] This is an action/adventure novel set in Mexico. Private investigator Chad Morgan tracks down a man named Guillermo who killed a model in Acapuco and finds that Guillermo believes in trial by combat. A "Sharelit" novel by Mack Tanner. ___Fly For a High [Novel] Private investigator and ultra-light pilot Chad Morgan is assigned the task of rescuing Karen Schwarts, who is on a marijuana-ladened ship sailing from the Gulf of Siam to Oregon. An action/adventure novel by Mack Tanner. ___Dive for a Sucker [Novel] Con artists are salting archeological sites in the Yucatan and Thailand, and it is up to private investigator Chad Morgan to stop the con and collect a bit of revenge. An action/adventure novel by Mack Tanner. ___Striped Pants and Dumb Luck [Novel] Jake Stevens has given up trying to make diplomat of the year in the tiny South East Asian country of Sabia. He tried to tell the ambassador that a coup war brewing, but who wants to listen to a man who is working the streets when the CIA is buying information right out of the Prime Minister's office? Action/adventure by Mack Tanner. ___Silver Paradise Bunch [Western Novel] If investigations of the thefts of shipments of silver bullion and the payrolls of the two mines in Paradise, New Mexico were not enough trouble for Federal Marshal Cole Maynard, there was the owner of the largest cattle ranch in the area to deal with and the Nedni Apaches who went on the warpath. ___Ranger's Peril [Western Novel] Texas Ranger Smith was killed by cattle rustlers, and Rafe Sherwood must investigate the case. With no help from the town marshal, he sought to bring the men responsible to justice, but he didn't know who they were. They, however knew who he was, and they were determined to kill him -- with bare hands, dynamite, or guns, whatever it took. ___Paleface Two-Bear [Western Novel] When 14-year old Jeremy Cochran lost his family to smallpox, he was left to fend for himself by the family guide, Shem Thatcher. After Jeremy eraned the name Two-Bear and made friends with the Shoshone, he again crosses paths with Thatcher, now with the Blackfeet. They meet in a final confrontation in which only one of them can survive. Note: 2 360K disks compressed onto 1 floppy. ___The Unattached [Suspense Novel] When Sam Fiske witnessed a late-night murder, he did not realize either that he would become the prime suspect, or that his family would become the murderer's next target. ___MONEY [Personal economics] This is a freeware disk containing information on the manu home-based economic stratagies described on the various electronic publications from Another Company. ___MONEY - VGA version The above program in a VGA specific edition. Requires a VGA monitor. ___Hints and Tips [Household information] Hints and tips for home owners, parents, handypersons, pet owners, and others. Categories include: autos, children, food, cleaning, pets, plants, and more. ___The Electronic Holmes Companion [Literature] (2 disk set) Sherlock Holmes stories, including: A Study in Scarlet, The Five Orange Pips, Silver Blaze, The Adventure of the Dancing Men, A Scandal in Bohemia, The Musgrave Ritual, The Final Problem, and several more. ___The Official Human Being License [Pop-psychology] A self-help psychology guide for pompous, insecure, self-centered, easily upset, mistake prone, agressive, and obnoxious people. It is based on the Rational- Emotive Therapy developed by Albert Ellis which advocates self-acceptance. ___Creative Parties for Kids [How-to] Suggestions for children's parties. Chapters include: Inviting invitations, Deck the halls, ...now what?, Let's eat! and more. ___East Texas Tales [Short Stories] This is a collection of stories with fundamentalist and occult falvorings from the East Texas end of the Bible Belt. ___Trilobite Stew [Short Stories] This collection of "Twilight Zone" like stories include: "The Surrealist Cowboy," "The River," "Yesterday's News," "Tyrell's Crossing," "Trilobite Stew," and more. ___Shakespeare's Hamlet [Literature] A complete copy of "The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark." Does NOT include footnotes or word definitions. (See The Hypertext Hamlet.) Requires 640K of memory. ___The King James Bible [Religion] (8 disk set) The Christian Bible on eight compressed disks. ___An Introdustion to DiskTop Publishing [Reference] This disk contains information on electronic publishing using computer disks instead of paper. It includes several articles on the subject, plus selected excerpts from Ruby's Pearls and Files and Stuff as examples. Uses IRIS to display the text. ___The Diskette of Democracy [Reference] Contains: The Articles of Confederation, The Declaration of Independence, Rights of Man and Citizen (Fr.), Magna Carta (Br.), U.S. Constitution, Declaration of Human Rights, and other historic documents. Sponsored by The East West Development Foundation ___H. Ross Perot [Politics] Information about the political ideas of conservative presidential candidate Perot, as compiled by his supporters. ___Bill Clinton's Plan for America's Future [Politics] Information about the political ideas of middle-of- the-road candidate Clinton, as compiled by a supporter. ___4 Pamphlets By K. Long [Gardening] Includes: Greenhouse Gardening, Genseng $ From Your Backyard, Organic Intensive Gardening in a Small Space, and How to have Good Health Naturally with Herbs. ___The Write Way [Writing, Publishing] This is a collection of articles published in the San Antonio Writers Guild Newsletter, The Final Draft, from June 1986 to January 1992. ___PC-Glossary [Reference] A dictionary of computer-related words. ___Garlic Magic [Reference, Food] This is an illustrated collection of facts, recipies, old wives tales, folf remedies, gardening hints, and research information about garlic. Requires 640K of memory and a graphics card; hard drive and VGA recommended. ___De Re Mentifica [Artificial intellegence] (720K disk) This work concerns the Mentifles mind-model of artificial intellegence. It contains: a)The Artificial Intellegence Theory Journal (1972-1977), b)Natural Language through Abstract Memory (1979(, c)Know Thyself: The Mentaflex Design for Abstract Intellegence (9181) Requires: 720K or larger drive; familarity with Logic, Linguistics, and the work of N. Chomsky. ___Tutor By Association [Reference] A VERY BASIC introduction to computers for beginners. If you are reading this disk, you have advanced beyond the scope of this book. ___Shareware Electronic Books In Print [Reference] A hypertext reference book listing shareware electronic books. It is indexed by author, title, book category, and subject, and all information is instantly avaiulable through hypertext jumps. Book excerpts are featured for many of the books. Requires 640K of memory. SHAREWARE PROGRAMS ___IRIS [Elecronic publishing program] ___PC-MEMO [Elecronic publishing program] ___DART [Hypertext Publishing Program] ___LOOKBOOK [Hypertext Publishing Program] ___Writer's Tools [Electronic Publishing Program] ___Multimedia Workshop [Graphics Publishing Program] ___ORPHEUS [Hypertext Publishing Program] (3 disk set) ___Cozy Reader [Electronic Publishing Program] ___HYPERREZ [Hypertext Publishing Program] ___TXTBook [ASCII file display program] ___GRFBook [ASCII and .PCX graphics file display program] ___BlackBoard VGA [VGA Electronic Publishing Program] ___Electronic Catalog Construction Kit [Catalog Creation Program] ___The Maxi Collection [Utilities & More] NOTE: 1.44MB disk ___WordQuik [Grammar reference program] Commercial Programs ___PC-BOOK [Electronic publishing program] ..............$25.00 [Specify 5.25" or 3.5" disks - same price] ___ ________________________________________________ _____ ___ ________________________________________________ _____ To order any of these disks, print out the ORDER_F.ORM file on this disk, check off the books wanted, fill in your name and address, attach your check, and mail to: SERENDIPITY SYSTEMS P. O. Box 140 San Simeon CA 93452 Your disks will be shipped to you via First Class mail to North American addresses, or by Air Mail to overseas addresses. =========================================================== INDEX ........................................ "INDEX.#"* =========================================================== =========================================================== = END OF PROGRAM = =========================================================== To QUIT, press ALT F, then select QUIT End of file