22 JANUARY 1965, page 26

The Big Computer

'EpocH IV is a computer that writes books and The Tin Men is its first novel. . . .' That is the final twist with which Mr. Frayn, in a chapter running to only two sentences,......

Homes Far From Home

By DAVID QUINN J ACOBEAN and Stuart England spawned a curious variety of colonies across the western ocean—Virginia, intended industrial frontier of the London merchant class,......