- Hardcover: 288 pages
- Publisher: Avon Books (May 1997)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0380975092
- ISBN-13: 978-0380975099
- Product Dimensions: 22.9 x 15.2 x 2.5 cm
- Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
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Tom Robbins meets William Gibson in this futuristic romp. Moldies, artificial life-forms that are soft and changeable, have drastically altered Earth. At the same time, the "loonies" have colonized the Moon for their own use--a vast place of lab experiments and communes. So when an alien accidentally lands on a Moon spaceport, no one can save humanity from itself except the disenfranchised people of the Moon.
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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
Format:Mass Market Paperback
Read the only other review of this book from someone who really didn't enjoy it, so felt I should set the balance, cos I rather rated it.
It's not the best of the 'wares' series, but if you've read software and wetware, and enjoyed them, you owe it to yourself to read the whole cycle and I hope this will leave you smiling.
It's not the best of the 'wares' series, but if you've read software and wetware, and enjoyed them, you owe it to yourself to read the whole cycle and I hope this will leave you smiling.
I reckon they have a unique, original niche of their own and I love the trailer-trash-meets-beat-generation take Rudy Rucker has on the cyberpunk phenomenon.
I'm still trying to track down a copy of realware, the last of the four...
0 of 1 people found the following review helpful
Format:Mass Market Paperback
I really don't see this book as that inventive or great. To someone who has read of the wonders and possibilities of nanotechnology, this book just comes off as another lame attempt at sensationalizing AI without altering the structure s of human thought. C'mon, really. And the characters were just transparent. I had to physically rip my frontal lobe out of my skull and smack it around just to keep it from falling into a terminal boredom coma. Keep trying Rudy.
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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful
A delightful tale of a world shared by humans and A-life.
8 Dec 1999
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I loved this book. It's light in style and narrative structure, and rucker doesn't take himself at all serriously. Rudy Rucker is a brilliant mathmetician and science fiction writer, and his protagonist, Randy Karl Tucker, is an uneducated redneck, whose primary passion is for sex with artificial life forms that smell of cheese. Other characters include a down-to-earth California surfer girl who, along with her stoner mathmatician husband, runs a fleabag sea-side resort in the autonomous nation of California, the head of a corporate empire who made his fortune selling burgers made from the cloned flesh of his half-human wife, and a delighful host of "moldies," artificial life forms with the power of gods, short lifespans, and generally no other ambition than to buy enough of the expensive high-tech goo of which they're made to form a child to perpetuate their own software.
This book is an absolute gem.
4 of 4 people found the following review helpful
energetic, imaginative & fun..
7 July 2000
Format:Mass Market Paperback
..what else can you ask from a science fiction book? Good characterization, plausible sciences & other stuff you can find in any boring science speculation book scribbled by engineers.
Rudy Rucker belongs to the GREAT freewheeling tradition of imaginative writers; forget Kim Stanley Robinson and Arthur C. Clarke, think van Vogt, Charles Harness and Barrington Bayley - he invents his science (that's why it's called fiction, eh?) and bounces off to the nomansland like some mutant kangaroo. This is stuff you can barely find on the shelves today as franchise poop is being pushed on all the fronts. Rucker knows his science but isn't limited by it - he writes straight from his subunconscious pool, winging it with gusto and joy. Engineers beware, this works on dream-logic and grabs you by the jellyfish.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
Comparisons? Try Heinlein X Egan.
27 Oct 1997
Format:Hardcover
Comparisons never quite seem to work. The closest I can get, however, is Heinlein's "The Moon is a Harsh Mistress" and Greg Egan's "Quarantine". Why? Well, the book <feels> like a prepubescent Heinleinesque make-love-not-war-on-the-moon jaunt, but has a <mind> reminiscent of Greg Egan's heavy physics sci-fi. It seems like a neat synthesis of the two, in fact. On the other hand, it's just a damn good read.
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