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 ...
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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!
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Fine in fine dust jacket. Glued binding. Paper over boards. With dust jacket. 301 p. Contains: Illustrations. Audience: General/trade. An attractive, fine copy in a near fine, mylar protected DJ. 1st edition; 8vo., 301 pages.
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Near Fine in New jacket. Book. Signed by Author(s) 1st ed/1st pr, SIGNED by author on title page. This book is square, solid, and unread; boards are unbumped with sharp tips. The sharp and lustrous DJ is in protective mylar Brodart cover. You'll eat a chili dog with delight when this book arrives at your door--with onions and all the fixins! ! ! NOTE: Light evidence of handling wear to the page sides.
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Fine unmarked, in Fine unclipped jacket. Cosmic and comic sci-fi wack-job. Nice bright clean crisp copy of HB 1st in bright jacket. 5-3/4 x 8-1/2, 301 pp, b/w illus.
