Small octavo, pictorial wrappers. Later edition. Avon 70177-4. The first robots built with real brains revolt and set up their own society on the Moon. The AIs offer their 70-year old hippie anarchist creator eternal preservation of his "software" -- his memories, his personality, his style of thought -- in the memory bank of a giant computer. "Very much in the style of Philip K. Dick, almost an affectionate parody ." - Pringle, The Ultimate Guide to Science Fiction, second edition (1995), p. 333. Winner of the 1983 Philip K. Dick Award. Anatomy of Wonder (2004) II-933. A fine copy. (#159867).

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Title

SOFTWARE

Publisher

Avon, [New York]

Publication Date

1987

Language

English

ISBN 10

0380701774

ISBN 13

9780380701773

Binding

Soft cover

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The creator of the first robots with real brains, Cobb Anderson finds himself another aged "pheezer" with a bad heart, and when he is offered immortality by his creations, he risks his body and his world. Reissue.

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Rudy Rucker is a world-class mathematician and two-time winner of the Philip K. Dick Award. He is the author of the cyberpunk classics Software, Wetware and Freeware, as well as numerous other novels, including The Hollow Earth and The Hacker and the Ants. in addition to writing sf and popular mathematics books, he teaches computer science at San Jose State University in California and has co-authored a number of software programs, including an adaptation of James Gleick's Chaos and, more recently, a freeware flicker-cladding simulator known as CAPOW! He lives in Los Gatos, California.

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