About the Author

Rudy Rucker is a writer and a mathematician who worked for twenty years as a Silicon Valley computer science professor. He is regarded as contemporary master of science-fiction, and received the Philip K. Dick award twice. His thirty published books include both novels and non-fiction books. A founder of the cyberpunk school of science-fiction, Rucker also writes SF in a realistic style known as transrealism.

Reviews

"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, author of Spooks "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 "This is over-the-top as only Rudy Rucker can do it." --Analog

In the very near future, two influential and maladjusted individuals initiate a radical transformation of the world through the use of sentient nanotechnology-only to have their plans foiled by Chu, the autistic son of two scientists engaged in nanotechnology research. The persistence of money and politics, however, creates a strange new world in which humans become telepaths and can travel to other worlds in the quantum universe; finally, gigantic visitors from another place entirely arrive to sort things out. Rucker (Frek and the Elixir) excels in mind-bending premises and thought-stretching stories peopled with appealingly flawed characters that resonate with familiarity despite their eccentricities. A Sci Fi ESSENTIAL title, this quantum romp belongs in most sf collections. Copyright 2007 Reed Business Information.

"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, author of Spooks "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 "This is over-the-top as only Rudy Rucker can do it." --Analog