Postsingular

Postsingular
Title Postsingular PDF eBook
Author Rudy Rucker
Publisher Macmillan
Pages 324
Release 2009-02-03
Genre Fiction
ISBN 9780765318725

Download Postsingular Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle

The Singularity has happened, and life afterward proves to be more bizarre than we thought. "SF book of the year" (Interzone).

Hylozoic

Hylozoic
Title Hylozoic PDF eBook
Author Rudy Rucker
Publisher Macmillan
Pages 335
Release 2009-05-26
Genre Fiction
ISBN 0765320746

Download Hylozoic Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle

After the Singularity, everyone and everything is sentient and telepathic. Aliens notice and invade Earth. In Rucker’s last novel, Postsingular, the Singularity happened and life on Earth was transformed by the awakening of all matter into consciousness and into 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 how 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.

The Rapture of the Nerds

The Rapture of the Nerds
Title The Rapture of the Nerds PDF eBook
Author Cory Doctorow
Publisher Macmillan
Pages 353
Release 2012-09-04
Genre Fiction
ISBN 0765329107

Download The Rapture of the Nerds Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle

From the two defining personalities of post-cyberpunk SF, a brilliant collaboration to rival 1987's The Difference Engine by William Gibson and Bruce Sterling

Frek and the Elixir

Frek and the Elixir
Title Frek and the Elixir PDF eBook
Author Rudy Rucker
Publisher Macmillan
Pages 484
Release 2005-02
Genre Fiction
ISBN 9780765310590

Download Frek and the Elixir Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle

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.

Singularities

Singularities
Title Singularities PDF eBook
Author Joshua Raulerson
Publisher Oxford University Press
Pages 265
Release 2013
Genre Literary Criticism
ISBN 1846319722

Download Singularities Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle

This groundbreaking volume is the first to mount a sustained and wide-ranging critical treatment of Singularity (the irrevocable transformation of the nature of human existence by technological advancement) as a subject for theory and cultural studies.

Postsingular

Postsingular
Title Postsingular PDF eBook
Author Rudy Rucker
Publisher Macmillan + ORM
Pages 361
Release 2009-02-03
Genre Fiction
ISBN 1466804874

Download Postsingular Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle

It all begins 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 a world after a heretofore unimaginable transformation, where all the things look the same but all the people 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, so now our world is visited by giant humanoids from another quantum universe, and some of them mean to tidy up the mess we've made. Or maybe just run things. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

Spaceland

Spaceland
Title Spaceland PDF eBook
Author Rudy Rucker
Publisher Macmillan + ORM
Pages 313
Release 2003-07-04
Genre Fiction
ISBN 1429980079

Download Spaceland Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle

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! At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.