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Combining both the fiction and nonfiction of one of the most unique
contemporary science fiction writers, this collection offers a rare
look into Rudy Rucker's mind as an author and mathematician.
Featuring an in-depth interview with Rucker about his ideas,
politics, and how his career as a mathematician and scientist
overlap with that of a bestselling author, this exclusive
compilation is a must-have for any science fiction enthusiast.
Infiltrating fundamentalist Virginia to witness the clash between
religious fanatics and drug-addled and sex crazed youth, this
collection is a one-of-a-kind examination of reality according to
Rudy Rucker.
Joe Cube is a Silicon Valley hotshot--well, a would-be hotshot anyway--hoping that the 3-D TV project he's managing will lead to the big money IPO he's always dreamed of. On New Year's Eve, hoping to impress his wife, he sneaks home the prototype. It brings no new warmth to their cooling relationship, but it does attract someone else's attention.
When Joe sees a set of lips talking to him (floating in midair) and feels the poke of a disembodied finger (inside him), it's not because of the champagne he's drunk. He has just met Momo, a woman from the All, a world of four spatial dimensions for whom our narrow world, which she calls Spaceland, is something like a rug, but one filled with motion and life. Momo has a business proposition for Joe, an offer she won't let him refuse. The upside potential becomes much clearer to him once she helps him grow a new eye (on a stalk) that can see in the fourth-dimensional directions, and he agrees. After that it's a wild ride through a million-dollar night in Las Vegas, a budding addiction to tasty purple 4-D food, a failing marriage, eye-popping excursions into the All, and encounters with Momo's foes, rubbery red critters who steal money, offer sage advice and sometimes messily explode. Joe is having the time of his life, until Momo's scheme turns out to have angles he couldn't have imagined. Suddenly the fate of all life here in Spaceland is at stake.
Rudy Rucker is a past master at turning mathematical concepts into rollicking science fiction adventure, from Spacetime Donuts and White Light to The Hacker and the Ants. In the tradition of Edwin A. Abbott's classic novel, Flatland, Rucker gives us a tour of higher mathematics and visionary realities. Spaceland is Flatland on hyperdrive!
This is the definitive popular exploration of what the fourth
dimension means, both physically and spiritually. Mathematician and
science-fiction novelist Rudy Rucker takes readers on a guided tour
of a higher reality that explores what the fourth dimension is and
what it's meant to generations of thinkers. The exciting and
challenging journey is enhanced by more than 200 illustrations and
a host of puzzles and problems (with answers).
"This is an invigorating book, a short but spirited slalom for the
mind." -- Timothy Ferris, "The New York Times Book Review"
"Highly readable. One is reminded of the breadth and depth of
Hofstadter's" G""o""del, Escher, Bach."" --" Science
""Anyone with even a minimal interest in mathematics and fantasy
will find "The Fourth Dimension" informative and mind-dazzling...
Rucker] plunges into spaces above three with a zest and energy that
is breathtaking." -- Martin Gardner
"Those who think the fourth dimension is nothing but time should be
encouraged to read"The Fourth Dimension, " along with anyone else
who feels like opening the hinges of his mind and letting in a bit
of fresh air." -- John Sladek, "Washington Post Book World
""A mine of mathematical insights and a thoroughly satisfying
read." -- Paul Davies, "Nature Magazine"
All of Rudy Rucker's science-fiction stories, a trove of gnarl and
wonder in two volumes. Volume One, includes stories from 1976
through 1995, ranging from the cyberpunk to the transreal. As well
as Rucker's solo stories, we have collaborations with Bruce
Sterling, Marc Laidlaw.
All of Rudy Rucker's science-fiction stories in two volumes-a trove
of gnarl and wonder. Volume Two includes stories from 1996 through
2011, with fifteen previously uncollected tales. As well as
Rucker's solo stories, this volume features collaborations with
Bruce Sterling, Marc Laidlaw, Paul Di Filippo, John Shirley, Terry
Bisson, and Eileen Gunn.
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Fuzzy Dice (Paperback)
Paul Di Filippo; Introduction by Rudy Rucker
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R590
Discovery Miles 5 900
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How badly could you screw up when granted access to infinite worlds
conforming to your heart's most intimate desires? No matter how
much of a disaster you or I might make of such a miraculous gift,
rest assured that Paul Girard, hapless middle-aged bookstore clerk,
can hilariously surpass your worst fumblings and missteps. Visited
one morning by a dimension-hopping artificial intelligence named
Hans, Paul is given the ability to jump instantly to any world he
can envision. But without truly knowing himself, Paul soon
discovers that framing a wish that gets the expected results is not
as easy as it first appears. From the depths of the Big Bang to a
world where hippies rule; from a land of Amazons to one where life
is a video-game; from a society where cooperation means everything
to one where individual chaos rules. Across these bizarre
dimensions and many others, Paul races in the search for happiness,
love, wealth, status and the answer to the Ontological Pickle.
Acquiring comrades and enemies along the way, our feckless
alternaut reaches a cul-de-sac from which the only exit is death.
And then his adventures really begin.
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Hylozoic (Paperback)
Rudy Rucker
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In Rucker's last novel, "Postsingular," the Singularity
happened. Life on Earth has been transformed by the awakening of
all matter into consciousness and telepathic communication. The
most intimate moments of your life can be experienced by anyone who
cares to pay attention, or by hundreds of thousands of anyones if
you are one of the Founders who helped create the
Singularity.
The small bunch of Founders, including young newlyweds Thuy, a
hypertext novelist, and Jayjay, a gamer and brain-enhancement
addict, are living a popular live-action media life. But now alien
races that have already gone through this transformation notice
Earth for the first time, and begin to arrive to exploit both the
new environment and any available humans. Some of them are real
estate developers, some are slavers, and some just want to help.
But who is to tell the difference? Someone has to save humanity
from the alien invasions, and it might as well be reality media
stars Thuy and Jayjay. They have the problems of soap opera stars,
and are still propelled through adventures in time and in other
universes, a long strange trip indeed.
It begins the day after next year in California. A maladjusted
computer industry billionaire and a somewhat crazy US president
initiate a radical transformation of the world through sentient
nanotechnology; sort of the equivalent of biological artificial
intelligence. At first they succeed, but their plans are reversed
by Chu, an autistic boy. The next time it isn't so easy to stop
them.
Most of the story takes place in our world after a previously
unimaginable transformation. All things look the same, and all
people feel the same--but they are different (they're able to read
each others' minds, for starters). Travel to and from other nearby
worlds in the quantum universe is possible. And our world is
visited by giant humanoids from another quantum universe, some of
whom mean to tidy up the mess we've made.
Or maybe just run things.
In the year 3003, nothing in the world is the same, except maybe
that adolescents are still embarrassed by their parents. Society
and the biosphere alike have been transformed by biotechnology, and
the natural world is almost gone.
Frek Huggins is a boy from a broken family, unusual becaise he was
conceived without technological help or genetic modifications. His
dad, Carb, is a malcontent who left behind Frek's mom and the Earth
itself several years ago.
Everything changes when Frek finds the Anvil, a small flying
saucer, under his bed, and it tells him he is destined to save the
world. The repressive forces of Gov, the mysterious absolute ruler
of Earth, descend on Frek, take away the Anvil, and interrogate him
forcefully enough to damage his memory. Frek flees with Wow, his
talking dog, to seek out Carb and some answers. But the
untrustworthy alien in the saucer has other plans, including
claiming exclusive rights to market humanity to the galaxy at
large, and making Frek a hero.
"Frek and the Elixir" is a profound, playful SF epic by the wild
and ambitious Rudy Rucker.
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