Postsingular: Volume 1

Rudy Rucker

Feb 2009 · Postsingular Book 1 · Sold by Tor Books

About this ebook

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.


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Ratings and reviews

Rucker is a hard sci-fi master, and this is the book that really hooked me on his writing. I recommended it wholeheartedly!

Cyberpunk at its most meaningful. This work is all at once personal and informative for those interested in the near future directions society could reach toward.

Meh. A lot of unneeded language.

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.