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
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ISBN
9781466804876
Publisert
2025
Utgiver
Independent Publishers Group (Chicago Review Press)
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Digital bok
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