A riveting new science fiction novel from the writer who twice won the Philip K. Dick Award for best SF novel.Bela and Paul, two wild young mathematicians, are friends and roommates, and in love with the same woman, who happens to be Alma, Bela's girlfriend. They fight it out by changing reality using cutting edge math, to change who gets the girl. The contemporary world they live in is not quite this one, but much like Berkeley, California, and the two graduate students are trying to finish their degrees and get jobs. It ...
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A riveting new science fiction novel from the writer who twice won the Philip K. Dick Award for best SF novel.Bela and Paul, two wild young mathematicians, are friends and roommates, and in love with the same woman, who happens to be Alma, Bela's girlfriend. They fight it out by changing reality using cutting edge math, to change who gets the girl. The contemporary world they live in is not quite this one, but much like Berkeley, California, and the two graduate students are trying to finish their degrees and get jobs. It doesn't help that their unpredictable advisor Roland is a mad mathematical genius who has figured out a way to predict isolated and specific bits of the future that can cause a lot of trouble. . .and he's starting to see monsters in mirrors. Bela and Paul start to mess around with reality, and when that happens, all heaven and hell break loose. Those monsters of Roland's were really there, but who are they? This novel is a romantic comedy with a whole corkscrew of SF twists.
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Very good in very good dust jacket. SIGNED by the author on the title page (signature only). 1st edition, 1st printing, complete number line. Dust jacket has a few soft wrinkles on the spine and creases on the front and rear inner folds. Glued binding. Paper over boards. With dust jacket. 364 p. Audience: General/trade. Book has mild spinal lean. By the Philip K DIck Award-winning author of The Ware Tetralogy and The Transrealist novels. Uncommon signed. Where possible, all books come with dust jacket in a clear protective plastic sleeve, sealed in a ziplock bag, wrapped in bubble wrap, shipped in a box.
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Fine in fine dust jacket. SIGNED by the author on the title page (signature only). 1st printing, complete number line. Glued binding. Paper over boards. With dust jacket. 364 p. Audience: General/trade. As new except for softening to cap and base of book spine. By the Philip K DIck Award-winning author of The Ware Tetralogy and The Transrealist novels. Uncommon signed. Where possible, all books come with dust jacket in a clear protective plastic sleeve, sealed in a ziplock bag, wrapped in bubble wrap, shipped in a box.
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Near Fine in New jacket. 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: Nearly invisible traces of handling to the page sides--honestly, most would simply list this book as fine, it's that sharp.
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Very Good Plus in Very Good Plus jacket. Hardcover. Signed by Author First Edition December 2006 in Very Good Plus condition with a Very Good Plus unclipped Dust Jacket protected by a Mylar Brodart. Signed on the title page (signature only) by Rudy Rucker at Westercon 63.
