In Rucker's last novel, Postsingular, the Singularity happened. Life on Earth has been transformed by the awakening of all matter into consciousness and 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 who is 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. They have the problems of soap opera stars, and are still propelled through adventures in time and in other universes, a long strange trip indeed.
Hylozoic
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Praise for the novels of Rudy Rucker:
"It's all a fun romp, and Rucker makes it work by providing a cutting-edge hard-science basis for the world's transformation.. Read these novels. They are like candy with a light, fluffy outside and a hard, dense core. And nobody can eat just one."
--Sci Fi Wire on Hylozoic
"Hylozoic goes much further into the realms of the twisted, the disturbing and the post-everything. . . . The whole thing gets more and more demented, until it almost feels like you need a post-singularity brain to understand all of the eigth-dimensional drama and weirdness. But just when you think Rucker's layered on too much . . . for one book, it reveals itself, once again, to be the story of JayJay and Thuy's marriage, and of their battle to stay married in the face of alien birds, addictive manta-ray gel, and a personality-eating world mind."
--io9
"Rucker’s yarn of a future where everything--animals, rocks, the planet Earth--is conscious, telepathic and often irrepressibly chatty. Rucker’s approach takes a high-comic trajectory with a satirical edge. . . . Serious, uproarious fun, with brain-teasers and brilliant ideas tossed about like confetti."
--Kirkus Reviews on Hylozoic
"Bristling with cool ideas, bizarre but witty formulations and neologisms, Carrollian mathematical/logic puzzles, gnarly tech applications and gonzo speculations, wicked satire, hot sex, nasty aliens, anarchic plots, and psi powers. . . . Rucker juggles the disparate elements of his plot with the zany aplomb of the Flying Karamazov Brothers. His vision of the future is a hopeful and inclusive one--and one hell of a party."
--Locus on Hylozoic
“Rudy Rucker should be declared a National Treasure of American Science Fiction. Someone simultaneously channelling 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 Spook Country on Postsingular
“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, New York Times bestselling author of Little Brother, on Postsingular
--Sci Fi Wire on Hylozoic
"Hylozoic goes much further into the realms of the twisted, the disturbing and the post-everything. . . . The whole thing gets more and more demented, until it almost feels like you need a post-singularity brain to understand all of the eigth-dimensional drama and weirdness. But just when you think Rucker's layered on too much . . . for one book, it reveals itself, once again, to be the story of JayJay and Thuy's marriage, and of their battle to stay married in the face of alien birds, addictive manta-ray gel, and a personality-eating world mind."
--io9
"Rucker’s yarn of a future where everything--animals, rocks, the planet Earth--is conscious, telepathic and often irrepressibly chatty. Rucker’s approach takes a high-comic trajectory with a satirical edge. . . . Serious, uproarious fun, with brain-teasers and brilliant ideas tossed about like confetti."
--Kirkus Reviews on Hylozoic
"Bristling with cool ideas, bizarre but witty formulations and neologisms, Carrollian mathematical/logic puzzles, gnarly tech applications and gonzo speculations, wicked satire, hot sex, nasty aliens, anarchic plots, and psi powers. . . . Rucker juggles the disparate elements of his plot with the zany aplomb of the Flying Karamazov Brothers. His vision of the future is a hopeful and inclusive one--and one hell of a party."
--Locus on Hylozoic
“Rudy Rucker should be declared a National Treasure of American Science Fiction. Someone simultaneously channelling 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 Spook Country on Postsingular
“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, New York Times bestselling author of Little Brother, on Postsingular
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Rudy Rucker lives in Los Gatos, California.
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Teleporting, Alien Manta Rays, Surfing and Infinity - all before lunch
8. Juli 2009
Von A. McLaren
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It's very good. Just how good is this book? Well I've done some calculations and come up with this theory, it's weird multiplied by wonderful and then raised to the power of freakin awesome!
Looking for a fun story about Teleporting, Alien Manta Rays, Surfing, Infinity, Alef-null, Time travel, Bosch (yes Hieronymus Bosch the painter)? Well this book has all these and more.
It's set in a post singularity world where everything has come "alive". Stones, rivers, trees, houses and you can talk them all. This is done via a thought process called "Teep". It sounds mad, but it's done in an utterly convincing matter of fact manner. After a few days reading this book I found myself wishing I could "Teep" the fridge to find out what was in there.
As with all Rudy Rucker books this is an easy read, the story moves along at a very lively pace. The only times I stopped reading was to ponder the amazing ideas.
Looking for a fun story about Teleporting, Alien Manta Rays, Surfing, Infinity, Alef-null, Time travel, Bosch (yes Hieronymus Bosch the painter)? Well this book has all these and more.
It's set in a post singularity world where everything has come "alive". Stones, rivers, trees, houses and you can talk them all. This is done via a thought process called "Teep". It sounds mad, but it's done in an utterly convincing matter of fact manner. After a few days reading this book I found myself wishing I could "Teep" the fridge to find out what was in there.
As with all Rudy Rucker books this is an easy read, the story moves along at a very lively pace. The only times I stopped reading was to ponder the amazing ideas.
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Crazier than ever
13. Juli 2009
Von D. Newman
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If you are already a Rudy Rucker fan you know how crazy the worlds he creates can be. "Hylozoic" is the craziest most intricate story yet. It's a fun book to read, but I wouldn't recommend it for the first time Rucker reader. Since "Hylozoic" is the sequel to "Post Singular" I recommend reading that fantastic book first.
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More awesome story
17. Februar 2013
Von John Verdon
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This is a continuing sage of Rucker’s Postsingular characters and the computational universe they live in. Great ideas and lots of fun, I continue to enjoy the characters and story Rucker is weaving. It may seem totally beyond reality – but then again…. This is the universe where matter is alive - is life itself. Highly recommend this book and all the others in this series.
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