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is available in the Newton/PIE
Forum on CompuServe (GO NEWTON), in the Newton Forum on
America Online (KEYWORD: NEWTON), and in the Newton Books
Forum on eWorld (SHORTCUT: NEWTON).
(Special thanks to Patty Tulloch, of Apple Computer, Inc., for her
kindness, her commitment, and most of all, her friendship. Without her
assistance, the Newton Book edition of "Undo" would not have been
possible.)
DOWNLOADING THE ETEXT EDITION OF "UNDO"
The complete Etext edition of "Undo" may be downloaded from the
World Wide Web in the Project Gutenberg library, located at
http://jg.cso.uiuc.edu/PG/welcome.html
The Etext edition of "Undo" is also available in the Newton/PIE Forum
on CompuServe (GO NEWTON), in the PDA Forum on America
Online (KEYWORD: PDA), and in the Newton Books Forum on
eWorld (SHORTCUT: NEWTON).

TABLE OF CONTENTS
AUTHOR'S NOTE DEDICATION INTRODUCTION TO THE
ELECTRONIC EDITION PROLOGUE
Chapters
1 - 6">
PART I
Chapters
1 - 6
Chapters
7 - 11 ">
PART II
Chapters

7 - 11
Chapters
12 - 16">
PART III
Chapters
12 - 16
Chapters
17 - 20">
PART IV
Chapters
17 - 20
Chapters
21 - 24">
PART V
Chapters
21 - 24 THE END

AUTHOR'S NOTE
This novel is a work of fiction. Names, characters, companies, products,
places, and incidents are either the product of the author's imagination
or are used fictitiously, and any resemblance to actual persons, living or
dead, events, companies and/or products, or locales, is entirely
coincidental.

DEDICATION
This novel is dedicated to the loving memory of my father
Stephen M. Hutsko

INTRODUCTION TO THE ELECTRONIC EDITION
"What a long, strange trip it's been." -- The Grateful Dead
As nearly as I can remember, I began writing this novel in the summer

of '88, after leaving my job at Apple Computer, Inc., where I worked
for almost four years for former Apple chairman John Sculley, as his
personal technology advisor. It was a neat job title and a lot of fun, but
somewhere in there I decided I wanted to become a novelist. Eight
years and two title-changes later, the first novel that I set out to write,
known these days as "Undo," is finally available to readers in this
special electronic edition, free of charge.
Electronic books, or e-texts, have been available for some time now so
this is hardly groundbreaking news. Or is it? For me, it's a pretty big
deal. Primarily because the electronic books that are available to
download from the Internet, the World Wide Web, and online services
such as CompuServe and America Online, were published previously
in hardback or paperback editions, or both. Bruce Sterling's "The
Hacker Crackdown: Law and Disorder on the Electronic Frontier," for
example, was first published in hardback by Bantam in 1992, then in
1993 in paperback, also by Bantam. Sterling wisely retained the
electronic rights to his book so that he may - electronically speaking -
do as he pleases with his work. To the best of my knowledge, Sterling
is the first author to give away his published, in-print book for free on
the Net.
I don't know how many people who download e-books actually read
them from cover-to-cover, though I suspect the number is rather low.
Mainly because the medium isn't as easy on the eyes as traditional
paper-based books. I would bet that most people who download
e-books - and I'm talking about novels, vs. reference works - browse
them part of the way, then delete them from their computer or PDA. As
for works of non-fiction, such as Sterling's book, or the enormously
serviceable "Elements of Style" (which has recently appeared in e-book
format), readers refer to these works on a need-to-know basis. But
novels, they're another story. A novel is something you curl up with
and, if it's a good one, lose yourself in, much the way Alice found
herself getting lost in that fantastic looking glass. Perhaps the valuable
thing about publishing a novel as an e-text is that it gives readers a taste
for the story and for the author's style, so that the reader can then go out
and purchase the published edition if they want to.
But let's get back to "Undo," and why making it available for free in
this electronic book version is so important to me. The reason is simple:

I want people to read it, and this is - so far, anyway - the only way to
make that happen. For, despite the hard-fought efforts of not one, not
two, but three very reputable literary agents, the book, unlike Mr.
Sterling's works, has not found a trade publisher it can call home.
Why? The answer to this question is best summed up by Bantam editor
Brian Tart, in his recent letter of rejection:
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