Word: dilithium
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...debate for hours the merits of the episode in which Mr. Spock mind-melded with a bloblike alien called the Horta, or the one where Captain Kirk time-traveled back to the Great Depression and fell in love with Joan Collins. They know the scientific properties of dilithium crystals, they have memorized the floor plan of the Starship Enterprise, and they can say, "Surrender or die!" in the Klingon language. They have immersed themselves, with a fervor matched by few devotees of any religious sect, in a fully imagined future world, where harmony and humanism have triumphed and the shackles...
McWilliams' TPCB, now being distributed by Ballantine, is not the only computer book that is thriving. Computers for Everybody (dilithium Press; $6.95) has sold an estimated 47,000 copies since its release in October. Apple II User's Guide (Osborne/McGraw-Hill; $16.95) has sold some 200,000 copies since March 1981. In a year that is being described as the worst for the publishing industry since the Great Depression, computer books are one of the few bright spots, with approximately 2,500 titles accounting for more than 4 million sales. Nearly 3 million Americans bought computers last year...