By MIKE FUHRMANN
The Canadian

Presse

Alexander Dewdney calls himself “a fairly typical
member of faculty in a fairly typical Canadian univer-
sity.”

, But his novel, The Planiverse, is anything but
typical, presenting an intricately imagined world in which
every element — from its flora and fauna to its eivili-
zation of intelligent beings — exists in just two dimen.
sions.
“It's sort of weird, isn’t it,” says the University of

Choirs have sung at World Expositions,

Western Ontari P' science pi

ly describing a book that resists being classified as

sciencé fiction or put into any other literary pigeon-hole.
It is the story of a group of students at a university

who suddenly find their computer project taking on a

strange life of its own. Their terminal has somehow

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become a window into another world, i with
flying snakes, underground predators and a likeable
character called Yendred with whom they can com
municate via the keyboard.

Intriguing in its oddity in the first few pages, the
story of Yendred’s journey across his planet Arde and the
detailed realization of the 2-D concept quickly becomes
enthralling.

HAS THEORY

“] know this sort of thing is entirely unlikely to
happen,” Dewdney said in an interview. “But I have this
funny theory about reality that says if two things happen
to coincide in certain respects they are the same, and
there may be a kind of communication going on between
them.”

Or, to paraphrase an explanation in the book: “As a
vibrating tuning fork can cause another tuning fork to
start vibrati the program
coincided with enough aspects of the independently
existing Planiverse to set that world “vibrating” and
establish a communications link between Earth and Arde.

Obscure explanations and theories of reality come
freely from Dewdney, but perhaps that's not surprising
considering that his mind operates in the most arcane
regions of theoretical computer science.

“My research is really out in left field. It has great
potential importance, but only one in 100 chances of

Basically, Dewdney studies the limits on what can or
cannot be done by a computer, which he calls “the
deepest mystery in theoretical computer science now.

“There are some problems that seem to be
computationally intractable. In other words, having a
computer doesn't help you.”

GAINING FAME

Dewdney, who has published several learned articles
in his field, is now finding his audience multiplying
rapidly with publication of The Planiverse, his first novel.

And he’s made another stride toward fame by taking
over as author of the much-read Computer Recreations
column in Scientific American magazine. “I don't allow
myself to think about the implications of writing for
nearly a million fairly knowledgeable people.”

Dewdney said he was afraid his 2-D fantasy would
sacrifice his credibility as a serious computer scientist,
adding: “I've been worried about being regarded as a
nut.”

Research and teaching are his two loves, he said.
Then why write The Planiverse?

“Frankly, I got kind of seduced by the money,”
Dewdney said. Prominent Canadian literary agent
Nancy Colbert obtained an advance from separate
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and that was all the motivation the 42-year-old pi
needed.

Those publishers now have enough faith in the book
to send Dewdney across North American and to England
promoting it.

How do the Dewdneys (he has a wife and 18-year-old
son) cope with these abrupt changes in their lives?

“Every once in a while we look at each other across
the table and giggle,” he said. “Sometimes we treat it all
as a big joke.”

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TORONTO (CP) — The
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narrowing substantially as
Japan's auto industry contin-
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MULRONEY TO
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TORONTO (CP) — Opposition Leader Brian
Mulroney will be lunching with 2,000 women on May 25
but they're not all paying $25 a head simply to catch »
glimpse of the man from Baie Comeau, Que.

The event, one of three planned Lunches With
Leaders, is the brainchild of two Toronto women, Myra
Davidson and Lynn Kinney. The idea was to give women
a forum to learn where each major political party stands
on women's issues.

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planning the series of lunches last January.

Neither woman claims any political affiliation but,
like, many Canadian women concerned with women's
issues, they're trying to decide how they'll vote in the
next federal election.

“It is critical now that we have access to the leaders
and their commitments to the problems facing women,”
Davidson said in an interview Tuesday. “The only way we
are going to get that access is if we're counted as a force.”

GIVES GUIDELINES

Judith Finlayson, head of the content committee for
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Live longer by
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SAN ANTONIO, TEX. (REUTER) — A team of medical
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“In terms of age-promoting, we probably eat too much,”
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he scoffed at reports that scientists might be
able to double the life span through better nutrition, saying
talk of living to “140 years, in my opinion, is nonsense.”
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MIGHT HELP
The results cannot be applied directly to humans
because the rats are tested under special laboratory condi-
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reduction by humans might lengthen their life expectancy.
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110,” Masoro said, but pointed out that the general life span
of mankind would remain unchanged as some people already
live to 100 or more.

Referring to the life span, he said: “It has remained
constant for so long and under such a wide variety of
conditions, I'd say it has been pretty well tested.”

The purpose of longevity research was not to find a
miracle potion that would enable people to live forever, but
rather to find ways of allowing them to live longer while

ining healthier, Masoro A

RESULTS HOPEFUL

Results of the “undernutrition without malnutrition”
experiments on rats had been promising, he continued.

“Their immune systems do not deteriorate as quickly
and the onset of age-related maladies such as kidney failure,
heart disease and cancer is delayed significantly,” Masoro
said.

Exactly how undernutrition achieves all this is unclear.

“Our problem is that nobody knows what the aging
process is,” Masoro said. “We only use these diseases as
markers of the aging-process.”

KNOCK THEORIES
So far, Masoro’s team of eight researchers has only been
able to disprove old theories about the connection between
nutrition and
One theory held that a reduced food intake slowed the
rate of bodily growth, thereby stretching out the normal life
processes.

Another postulated that a reduction in body fat would
increase longevity, while a third argued that less food would
slow the metabolic rate at which the body burns itself out.

“It took us more than eight years to show none of these
were correct,” Masore said. “Now we are looking for the
needle in the haystack.”

In recent months he has directed his efforts to-finding a
metabolic link between nutrition and aging, which he

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