Anyone come across Gahan Wilson's "The Science Fiction Horror Movie
Pocket Computer" from "The Year's Best Science Fiction No. 5", ed.
Harry Harrison and Brian Aldiss? I've had a heavily modified version
knocking around on my site for some time, used as a demo in teaching
elementary Artificial Intelligence- and have now implemented it in
Excel - so if you want to while away a few minutes with an SF-
generating spreadsheet, take a look at
http://www.j-paine.org/excelsior/repository/spin/spin.xls
.. There's a copy at Zoho's collaborative spreadsheet site,
http://sheet.zoho.com/public.do?docurl=DutWMTEeBzI%3D&name=FPLvAgHUGiI%3D
.. The spreadsheet was written to experiment with some ideas in
documenting and generating complicated spreadsheets, and certainly not
as an exercise in state-of-the-art computational linguistics, but I
was quite pleased that I could get Excel to do something so far from
what it's normally used for.
Jocelyn Paine
