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Title: Liquid Earth by Clifford A. Pickover, Clifford Pickover ISBN: 0-9714827-6-4 Publisher: Lighthouse Press, Inc. Pub. Date: August, 2002 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.8 (5 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: An Apt Statement of the Times
Comment: "Liquid Earth" reads like one of Pickover's on-line experiments in
collaborative writing. It is like the Internet, itself -- a
stream of collective consciousness. The book also depicts
something like a human reaction to information overload, living on
Moore's Law accelerating cultural curve. Living in a Fracturing
Reality is like experiencing landmark buildings crashing to the
ground for no good reason. The book is in fact poignantly
topical. It inspires reflection.
Rating: 5
Summary: Wow -- what a ride...
Comment: Like drinking a Big Gulp too fast, this book will give you brain freeze -- but in a good way! It begins with a strange encounter and never looks back. Cliff Pickover weaves an interesting story centered on shifting reality (Does anybody really know what time it is? Does anybody really care?) caused by a growing space-time rupture. Bring along a cat, a heroine, and robot, and you have quite a crew.
Like Pickover's non-fiction books, there is plenty of science and other stuff to learn here, only this time wrapped up in an often hilarious, very entertaining sci-fi story. I enjoyed it and look forward to reading other stories in the Neoreality Series...
Rating: 5
Summary: Review of Liquid Earth
Comment: This book has some of the most hilarious scenes I've ever encountered in a book, and it's worth reading even just for its fight / escape scenes and its extraordinary climax. It will appeal to a vast audience, from lovers of science fiction and fantasy to futurists and serious philosophers, not to mention aficionados of fine literature and even Biblical scholars. As well as entertaining us, the author gives us serious pause to reflect on our station in life and history. In a move that would make Salvador Dali proud, Clifford Pickover lends flavor to a larger movement which he characterizes as his "Neoreality Series", introducing a scale for measuring unlikely events, referred to as "The Hawking Reality Scale" with deciReal units to "measure the intensity of reality fragmentation". With a tip of the hat to the older movement in Italian cinema, Pickover's use of the word Neoreality may very well come to be the catchword for our own age in cinema too, describing equally well such films as "eXistenZ," "Fight Club," "Being John Malkovich," and "The Matrix". Take this fantastic journey with charming girl prodigy Mink, her adorable robot kitten Carrington and the joketelling poet android Mr. Plex as they traverse through forests, jungles, ancient ruins and a small New England town, seeking refuge from extraordinary villainous creatures such as "Cheetah Killers" and Gharials in their quest to discover reality-shattering chronoplasmids. Written by the great science popularizer, math puzzler and world expert on fractals, Clifford Pickover's colorful book will appeal to older and and younger readers alike. It will make old people feel young and young people feel old! If you have enjoyed C.S. Lewis, L. Frank Von Baum and Daniel Pinkwater, you will also enjoy Liquid Earth; equally so if you have enjoyed Isaac Asimov, Arthur C. Clarke and William Gibson.
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Title: Egg Drop Soup by Clifford Pickover ISBN: 0971482799 Publisher: Lighthouse Press, Inc. Pub. Date: 09 September, 2002 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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Title: Sushi Never Sleeps by Clifford Pickover ISBN: 0971482780 Publisher: Lighthouse Press, Inc. Pub. Date: 09 September, 2002 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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Title: The Lobotomy Club by Clifford Pickover ISBN: 0971482772 Publisher: Lighthouse Press, Inc. Pub. Date: 15 August, 2002 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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Title: Calculus and Pizza: A Math Cookbook for the Hungry Mind by Clifford A. Pickover ISBN: 0471269875 Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Pub. Date: 30 May, 2003 List Price(USD): $16.95 |
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Title: Time: A Traveller's Guide by Clifford A. Pickover ISBN: 0195130960 Publisher: Oxford University Press Pub. Date: September, 1999 List Price(USD): $16.95 |
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