Classic Cyber Punk Tetralogy Released CC for DL

[Rman Virgil]

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What a coincidence that this truly seminal Sci Fi work's Creative Commons release a few days ago would overlap our recent discussions about NEXUS, etc.

It's called:

The Ware Tetralogy -

Software; Wetware; Freeware; Realware

By Rudy Rucker.

Here's an excerpt from Wikipedia on the author (one of my favs for both his fiction & non-fiction body of work):

Rudolf von Bitter Rucker (born March 22, 1946 in Louisville, Kentucky) is an American mathematician, computer scientist and science fiction author, and is one of the founders of the cyberpunk literary movement. The author of both fiction and non-fiction, he is best known for the novels in the Ware Tetralogy, the first two of which (Software and Wetware) both won Philip K. Dick Awards.

Rucker is the great-great-great-grandson of the philosopher Georg Hegel.

Rudy is also that rarity in SF writing - a very funny guy.


And here's a blurb on the tetralogy itself:

Your Guide to the 21st Century!

It starts with Software, where rebel robots bring immortality to their human creator by eating his brain. Software won the first Philip K. Dick Award.

In Wetware, the robots decide to start building people­—and people get strung out on an insane new drug called merge. This cyberpunk classic garnered a second Philip K. Dick award.

By Freeware, the robots have evolved into soft plastic slugs called moldies­—and some human “cheeseballs” want to have sex with them. The action redoubles when aliens begin arriving in the form of cosmic rays.

And with Realware, the humans and robots reach a higher plateau.

(Includes an introductory essay by William Gibson.)

This blurb is from the Manybooks.net site from which you can download this Tetralogy in any one of 24 different formats to suit your reading prefs.

Here's the DL page link:

http://manybooks.net/titles/ruckerrothe ... c2010.html

Delectable food for the imagination, methinks.

- RV
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[Roux Le Corps]

mmm, thems there some nice moldies

[lav_coyote25]

most awesome reading!! been a long time since i read some GREAT scifi.

[Rman Virgil]

most awesome reading!! been a long time since i read some GREAT scifi.

Cool. Yea it is. I myself have been away from reading anything but serious non-fiction the last few years but I'm getting back into novels again in a big way.... especially Sci Fi.

Don't know if I ever mentioned this before but I used to talk books with Pumpkin Project Lead Alex MacLean. Not surprisingly he was/is a big Sci Fi reader but what is of particular interest in the context of WZ 2100 is that his favorite Sci Fi was Orson Scott Card's "Ender" series of novels. Now if you know anything about the origins of the main character Ender Wiggins you will be able to discern the connection to particular elements of the WZ back story. (Such that the first "Road Warrior" & "Terminator" movies were not the only sources of inspiration for the WZ back story and certain game play elements.)

- RV
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