At first sight this seems quite interesting, but delving deeper I found little more than a rather elaborate game with pretensions to grandeur.

That this introduces similar ideas to those propounded by Seymour Pappert in his book 'Mindstorms' is a tribute of sorts, and certainly Mr. Allan takes a more practical line that Mr. Pappert did, or possibly could considering the development of microcomputing at the time of writing.

The book is quite short and academically interesting. But its lack of origination left me dissatisfied.