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Title: Freeware by Rudy Rucker ISBN: 0-380-78159-X Publisher: Eos Pub. Date: 01 March, 1998 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $5.99 |
Average Customer Rating: 2.82 (11 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: Stop it with the Tom Robbins Comparisons
Comment: Freeware is NOT Tom Robbins meets William Gibson. Tom Robbins' books suck diseased, pus-filled elephant seal corpses. Rudy Rucker's books do not. The Rude-man is an original. O.K. Book review. I liked Freeware. Better than Wetware, not as good as Software (which is a super-great book), but worth reading if for no other reason than the slang greeting "Yarr there!"
Rating: 5
Summary: A delightful tale of a world shared by humans and A-life.
Comment: 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.
Rating: 2
Summary: Too ugly for me
Comment: The best part of this novel is the ending - not just the fact that I got to the end, but the actual story in the last couple of chapters. For the rest I found the story appallingly ugly. Was Mr Rucker using bodily functions and, especially smell, that most pervasive of all senses, to demonstrate a symbiosis developing between humankind and the moldies (an invention of humankind)? But everytime I found some part of the story that seemed to catch a bit of my interest I found it snatched away by the ugliness again. There was also the matter of the time sequencing shown by the dates at the start of each chapter - I found myself having to go back again and again to try to understand how the events actually unfolded. (One of the aliens at the end of the novel does have a time independent (?) existance that Mr Rucker might have been trying to prepare us for - but I just found it a labour). A novel with a really interesting time sequencing is Piers Anthony's 'Chthon' and this unusual word - chthon - does pop up in 'Freeware'.
I was disappointed in this novel because I enjoyed Mr Rucker's book on infinity, 'Infinity and the Mind', with its fascinating concepts of different sizes of infinity and the elegant ways in which these can be demonstrated. I also enjoyed his novel 'White Light' which is quite different to 'Freeware'.
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Title: Wetware by Rudy Rucker ISBN: 0380701782 Publisher: Eos Pub. Date: 01 April, 1988 List Price(USD): $5.99 |
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Title: Realware by Rudy V. B. Rucker, Rudy Rucker ISBN: 0380808773 Publisher: Eos (HarperCollins) Pub. Date: 30 May, 2000 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
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Title: Software by Rudy Rucker ISBN: 0380701774 Publisher: Eos Pub. Date: 01 October, 1987 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
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Title: The Hacker and the Ants: Version 2.0 by Rudy V. B. Rucker, Rudy Rucker ISBN: 1568582471 Publisher: Four Walls Eight Windows Pub. Date: 01 January, 2003 List Price(USD): $13.95 |
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Title: Dude, Where's My Country? by Michael Moore ISBN: 0446532231 Publisher: Warner Books Pub. Date: 07 October, 2003 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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