Chet Day
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Chet Day is the author of two novels, Halo and The Hacker
, published in the mid and late 1980s by Pocket Books
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. Intelligent, handsome, and murderous, the 6'2" all-state linebacker is determined to win the school's Christopher Award, granted to an exceptional graduating senior in place of valedictorian honors. To reach this end, Halo conspires to kill anyone who stands in his way, including fellow students and teachers.
Halo was published in October, 1987 and marketed under the genre of horror.
Day's second novel, The Hacker, told a story of pre-Internet bulletin board systems, or BBS
, set in the late eighties. One of the first novels to introduce the concept of e-mail and the message board, The Hacker detailed the rise and fall of the fictional New Orleans BBS The Surgery, system-operated (SYSOP) by a reclusive Tulane computer science student. A shadowy user called The Succubus hacks into The Surgery and wreaks havoc, eventually threatening the lives of all Surgery board users.
The Hacker was published in 1989. The ideas and concepts in the novel were so new that the publishers failed to market the novel properly and thus sales tanked and the book quickly went out of print. However, The Hacker was nominated for the 1990 Prometheus Award
and enjoyed decent critical reviews. Other 1990 nominees included Poul Anderson and Robert Heinlein.
and homeopathy
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The Hacker
Michel Amato, better known by the stage name The Hacker, is a French electroclash and techno producer who has worked extensively with Miss Kittin. His work has been influenced by Electro artists like Kraftwerk, New Wave artists such as The Cure and Depeche Mode, as well as the French rave scene of...
, published in the mid and late 1980s by Pocket Books
Pocket Books
Pocket Books is a division of Simon & Schuster that primarily publishes paperback books.- History :Pocket produced the first mass-market, pocket-sized paperback books in America in early 1939 and revolutionized the publishing industry...
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Synopsis
Halo followed one year in the life of Billy Halo, a psychotic high school teenager starting his senior year in a New Orleans prep schoolUniversity-preparatory school
A university-preparatory school or college-preparatory school is a secondary school, usually private, designed to prepare students for a college or university education...
. Intelligent, handsome, and murderous, the 6'2" all-state linebacker is determined to win the school's Christopher Award, granted to an exceptional graduating senior in place of valedictorian honors. To reach this end, Halo conspires to kill anyone who stands in his way, including fellow students and teachers.
Halo was published in October, 1987 and marketed under the genre of horror.
Day's second novel, The Hacker, told a story of pre-Internet bulletin board systems, or BBS
Bulletin board system
A Bulletin Board System, or BBS, is a computer system running software that allows users to connect and log in to the system using a terminal program. Once logged in, a user can perform functions such as uploading and downloading software and data, reading news and bulletins, and exchanging...
, set in the late eighties. One of the first novels to introduce the concept of e-mail and the message board, The Hacker detailed the rise and fall of the fictional New Orleans BBS The Surgery, system-operated (SYSOP) by a reclusive Tulane computer science student. A shadowy user called The Succubus hacks into The Surgery and wreaks havoc, eventually threatening the lives of all Surgery board users.
The Hacker was published in 1989. The ideas and concepts in the novel were so new that the publishers failed to market the novel properly and thus sales tanked and the book quickly went out of print. However, The Hacker was nominated for the 1990 Prometheus Award
Prometheus Award
The Prometheus Award is an award for libertarian science fiction novels given annually by the Libertarian Futurist Society, which also publishes a quarterly journal Prometheus. L. Neil Smith established the award in 1979, but it was not awarded regularly until the newly founded Libertarian Futurist...
and enjoyed decent critical reviews. Other 1990 nominees included Poul Anderson and Robert Heinlein.
Health
Chet Day currently earns his living owning and operating a large natural health website called 'Health and Beyond' in rural North Carolina. He has a lot of various recipes, diet advice, and various treatments for alternative medicine such as fastingFasting
Fasting is primarily the act of willingly abstaining from some or all food, drink, or both, for a period of time. An absolute fast is normally defined as abstinence from all food and liquid for a defined period, usually a single day , or several days. Other fasts may be only partially restrictive,...
and homeopathy
Homeopathy
Homeopathy is a form of alternative medicine in which practitioners claim to treat patients using highly diluted preparations that are believed to cause healthy people to exhibit symptoms that are similar to those exhibited by the patient...
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