Synopsis
Scoffing at societal taboos that forbid fraternization with artificial life forms, Randy Karl Tucker pursues his feelings for robot bookkeeper Monique, but her abduction reveals unsetting revelations about Randy's origins. Simultaneous.
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Rudy Rucker teaches computer science at San Jose State University in California.
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In the twenty-first century, humanity and various artificial life-forms coexist. The heritagists (humans) on earth and the loonie moldies (plastic-based beings) on the moon are both extremists, and each denies the ultimate worth of the other, but for the most part, humans and moldies live in relative peace, at least in Santa Cruz, where Terri and Tre Dietz run a motel with their moldie friends, Monique and Xlotl. When a cheeseball from Kentucky checks in . . . But no plot summary can do justice to Rucker's apocalyptically cheerful world. Suffice it to say that the loonies try to liberate their moldie siblings on earth, the heritagists try to rid earth of moldies, and everyone tries to control the Perplexing Poultry and the Tessellation Equations to gain power over the other life-forms. Disaster always looms and is occasionally skirted by Rucker's all-too-human (regardless of species) characters. Wacky action gets you tangled in Rucker's yarn, but the brilliance with which he plays with ideas keeps you reading. Dennis Winters
In hip, staccato language, the master of cyberpunk (e.g., The Hacker and the Ants, Avon, 1994) merges California surfer culture with a tale of 21st-century artificial plastic and mold lifeforms. The intertwined lives of Heritagist fanatic anti-Moldies, the Moldies' inventors, human "cheeseballs" who have sex with Moldies, and isolationist Moldies on the Moon enliven this fast-paced tale of kidnapping and alien takeover. Recommended for sf collections.
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