Synopsis
A cult novelist investigates an alien abduction...and is drawn into a freaky, transreal mix.
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Review
We have seen the future and it crawls, swims, teems with billions of soft, sentient piezoplastic beasts -- a brave new biotech world where Rucker-revealedsecrets of immortality, space travel and congress with aliens are as readily available as mushroom pizzas or a bigger hard drive. "Saucer Wisdom"soars. -- Nick Herbert, author of "Faster Than Light."
With "Saucer Wisdom" Rucker has reached a new peak."Saucer Wisdom" is absolutely one of the best books of the year. Rucker has ...grown up, elucidating the wild-eyed, gonzo ideas of his youth with the clear-eyed, well-honed craft of a mature writer at his creative peak. -- NOVA Express.
Groove to amind-expanding leap into the future. -- Publisher's Weekly.
How delightful it was to open up Rudy Rucker's latest madcap fantasy, "Saucer Wisdom" . Of all the new science-fiction writers, it is Rucker who most nearly approaches Dick's imaginative mania. -- The Australian's Review of Books.
It's brilliantly funny, prescient, and as fully engaging as a coffee-fueled late-night conversation with a slightly manic genius. From the aloof-yet-naughty aliens ... to the detailed, personalized visions of future people's technology, "Saucer Wisdom" shines with a humanity firmly rooted right here on Earth... It seems that the William S. Burroughs of cyberpunk can't help but write good books. -- Amazon.com.
Generous, wild-eyed, yet sage ... The future envisioned here is one ofliberating, near-utopian technologies that make the Extropians look like Alan Greenspan. -- Isaac Asimov's SF Magazine.
"Saucer Wisdom" is, first and foremost, a wild and exhilarating ride through the next 2,000 years of human history, throwing up enough bizarre concepts to sustain two or three careers of SF writing. What saves the book from overload is Rucker's characteristically snappy, wisecracking style... Rucker is able to explain in witty and convincing ways just how most of the technological innovations he proposes would work, and -- unusual in futurist narratives -- he shows how these various technologies evolve. A pop-science book like no other. -- Locus.
Rucker's sensibility is a combination of gonzo humor, fictionalized autobiography in the Kerouackian mode (what Rucker calls " transrealism "), and the sheer, bugs-in-your-teeth thrill of scientific extrapolation taken to blitz-punk extremes. -- Salon.com.
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