Spaceland: A Novel of the Fourth Dimension

Rucker, Rudy

ISBN 10: 0765303663 / ISBN 13: 9780765303660

Published by Tor, New York, 2002

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New York: Tor:, 2002. First edition, Hardcover, Fine in Fine dust jacket, 301 pp. Cover artwork by: Taral Wayne "FLATLAND on hyperdrive. . . " that s what it says on the flap copy. Joe Cube has made a prototype 3-D TV. Through it he meets Momo. Momo teaches him about the fourth dimension, helps him grow an extra eye so that he can see it, and leads him to believe that his million-dollar IPO can be a reality. Joe also meets Momo s foes. Sometimes they get his money, sometimes they offer advise, sometimes they explode. First edition, Hardcover, Fine in Fine dust jacket,

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Spaceland: A Novel of the Fourth Dimension
• Publisher: Tor, New York
• Publication Date: 2002
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0765303663
• ISBN 13: 9780765303660
• Binding: Hardcover
• Illustrator: Taral Wayne
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Dust Jacket Condition: Dust Jacket Included
• Seller catalogs:
  • Science Fiction

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Synopsis

Joe Cube is a Silicon Valley hotshot--well, a would-be hotshot anyway--hoping that the 3-D TV project he's managing will lead to the big money IPO he's always dreamed of. On New Year's Eve, hoping to impress his wife, he sneaks home the prototype. It brings no new warmth to their cooling relationship, but it does attract someone else's attention.

When Joe sees a set of lips talking to him (floating in midair) and feels the poke of a disembodied finger (inside him), it's not because of the champagne he's drunk. He has just met Momo, a woman from the All, a world of four spatial dimensions for whom our narrow world, which she calls Spaceland, is something like a rug, but one filled with motion and life. Momo has a business proposition for Joe, an offer she won't let him refuse. The upside potential becomes much clearer to him once she helps him grow a new eye (on a stalk) that can see in the fourth-dimensional directions, and he agrees.

After that it's a wild ride through a million-dollar night in Las Vegas, a budding addiction to tasty purple 4-D food, a failing marriage, eye-popping excursions into the All, and encounters with Momo's foes, rubbery red critters who steal money, offer sage advice and sometimes messily explode. Joe is having the time of his life, until Momo's scheme turns out to have angles he couldn't have imagined. Suddenly the fate of all life here in Spaceland is at stake.

Rudy Rucker is a past master at turning mathematical concepts into rollicking science fiction adventure, from Spacetime Donuts and White Light to The Hacker and the Ants. In the tradition of Edwin A. Abbott's classic novel, Flatland, Rucker gives us a tour of higher mathematics and visionary realities. Spaceland is Flatland on hyperdrive!

About the Author

Rudy Rucker is a mathematician, computer scientist, professor and writer who has twice won the Philip K. Dick Award for best SF paperback original, and has published a number of successful popular books on mathematical subjects, including The Fourth Dimension and Infinity and the Mind. He lives in Los Gatos, California.