Proving that there is life after – and more to life than computer journalism, former doyenne of the art Denise Danks, who spent the mid-1980s running a division of Apt Data Services is now a successful writer of thrillers, with her second novel just out and her third – with a new publisher this time – in gestation: one aspect the two crafts have in common is research, and she has been delving into the exotic world of artificial computer-generated – universes, and reports that having exhausted the possibilities of generating all the sensations of flying a Tornado at Mach 1.5 and overtaking Nigel Mansell in a Formula One car at Silverstone, some of the practioners of what threatens to become a very black art have needless to say turned their minds to virtual sex, and have got far enough that there is a word for it, namely Dildonics.
