The Bug by Ellen Ullman, Doubleday, $23.95, ISBN 0385508603 Reviewed by Wendy M. Grossman
ETHAN has problems. He has a long-time girlfriend who’s gone travelling and whom avelling and whom avelling and whom he doesn’t miss enough. He has a “Game of Life” simulation he’s been working on ever since college. And he has a bug, brought to his attention by Roberta, that lowest of creatures, a quality tester.
Roberta has problems of her own: a constantly travelling boyfriend, a job that requires her to renounce her earlier life in linguistics, and, of course, the bug, which appears only intermittently.…
