3.7
Postsingular
by Rudy Rucker
A disturbed billionaire and a deranged president jeopardize the future of the world with nanotechnology in this science fiction adventure. "Rudy Rucker should be declared a National Treasure of American Science Fiction. Someone simultaneously channeling Kurt Godel and Lenny Bruce might start to approximate full-on Ruckerian warp-space, but without the sweet, human, splendidly goofy Rudy-ness at the core of the singularity." —William Gibson It begins the day after next year in California. A maladjusted computer industry billionaire and a somewhat crazy U.S. 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 an autistic boy named Chu. The next time it isn't so easy to stop them. And the human world changes permanently. 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 one another's minds for starters). Travel to and from other nearby worlds in the quantum universe is possible. 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. "Rucker takes on the hot topics of nanotechnology and the transformation of humanity with exuberance and irreverent wit. . . . Wildly inventive, tossing out ideas on the cutting edge of science with attention to their most offbeat consequences ." — The Denver Post "Rucker puts the weird in science. String theory might as well have been invented to give rise to mind-benders like this book." —Cory Doctorow "[Rucker's] devoted fans and dazzled newcomers to him will revel in his willingness to push technological extrapolation to its soaring limits." — Booklist
FictionScience FictionAction & AdventureCyberpunk
RELEASED2009
PUBLISHEROpen Road Integrated Media, Inc.
LENGTH311
LANGUAGEENGLISH
Rudolf "Rudy" von Bitter Rucker is a writer and a mathematician who worked for twenty years as a Silicon Valley computer science professor, and published a number of software packages. Rucker is regarded as contemporary master of science-fiction, and received the Philip K. Dick award twice. His forty published books include novels, collections, and non-fiction books on the fourth dimension, infinity, and the meaning of computation. A founder of the cyberpunk school of science-fiction, Rucker also writes SF in a realistic style known as transrealism. His 2006 *Mathematicians in Love* was an example of a transreal novel. His early cyberpunk four-book series was republished in 2010 as *The Ware Tetralogy*. Rucker’s 2007 novel, *Postsingular* was something of a return to the cyberpunk style, as was the 2009 sequel, *Hylozoic*, in which every object on Earth comes to life. Rucker’s autobiography, *Nested Scrolls*, appeared in 2011. Recent novels include *Turing & Burroughs*, *Return to the Hollow Earth*, and *Million Mile Road Trip*. [(Source)][1] [1]: https://www.rudyrucker.com/blog/about/
3.7
Postsingular
by Rudy Rucker
A disturbed billionaire and a deranged president jeopardize the future of the world with nanotechnology in this science fiction adventure. "Rudy Rucker should be declared a National Treasure of American Science Fiction. Someone simultaneously channeling Kurt Godel and Lenny Bruce might start to approximate full-on Ruckerian warp-space, but without the sweet, human, splendidly goofy Rudy-ness at the core of the singularity." —William Gibson It begins the day after next year in California. A maladjusted computer industry billionaire and a somewhat crazy U.S. 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 an autistic boy named Chu. The next time it isn't so easy to stop them. And the human world changes permanently. 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 one another's minds for starters). Travel to and from other nearby worlds in the quantum universe is possible. 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. "Rucker takes on the hot topics of nanotechnology and the transformation of humanity with exuberance and irreverent wit. . . . Wildly inventive, tossing out ideas on the cutting edge of science with attention to their most offbeat consequences ." — The Denver Post "Rucker puts the weird in science. String theory might as well have been invented to give rise to mind-benders like this book." —Cory Doctorow "[Rucker's] devoted fans and dazzled newcomers to him will revel in his willingness to push technological extrapolation to its soaring limits." — Booklist
FictionScience FictionAction & AdventureCyberpunk
RELEASED2009
PUBLISHEROpen Road Integrated Media, Inc.
LENGTH311
LANGUAGEENGLISH
Rudolf "Rudy" von Bitter Rucker is a writer and a mathematician who worked for twenty years as a Silicon Valley computer science professor, and published a number of software packages. Rucker is regarded as contemporary master of science-fiction, and received the Philip K. Dick award twice. His forty published books include novels, collections, and non-fiction books on the fourth dimension, infinity, and the meaning of computation. A founder of the cyberpunk school of science-fiction, Rucker also writes SF in a realistic style known as transrealism. His 2006 *Mathematicians in Love* was an example of a transreal novel. His early cyberpunk four-book series was republished in 2010 as *The Ware Tetralogy*. Rucker’s 2007 novel, *Postsingular* was something of a return to the cyberpunk style, as was the 2009 sequel, *Hylozoic*, in which every object on Earth comes to life. Rucker’s autobiography, *Nested Scrolls*, appeared in 2011. Recent novels include *Turing & Burroughs*, *Return to the Hollow Earth*, and *Million Mile Road Trip*. [(Source)][1] [1]: https://www.rudyrucker.com/blog/about/
