BEST BOOK I'VE READ IN...AWHILE

On a lighter note, I've been munching my way through Rudy Rucker's THE WARE TETRALOGY.


This book has been seeping into my unconscious and conscious membranes like a leaking fluid.  It is so insanely forward and yet so relevant to where we are heading in terms of interactive technology.  It's just so...yes-weird.  But so so good.  I think the forward by William Gibson is best in describing it that it is a place he always feared of going.  Or-that is how I read it.  It reminds me of parts of Holy Fire by Bruce Sterling in terms of organic material being physical building blocks.  In that novel it was actual structures-or how I remember it-but in Rucker's piece, the organic material is another being.  A type of upgrade or fucking "app" if you will that is sentient and able to meld and coexist with the bi-pedal humanoid messes that we are.  I get now how writers like Phillip K. Morgan went with the idea of downloading a consciousness and re-installing that into a clone body.  Fascinating ideas and so refreshing and at the same time very unnerving.  Unnerving only in the realm of thinking about our existence on your neighborhood X and Y axis.  This book takes some "out of the box" reading.

It's just so good...not even the prose of it but the ideas put forth in such a bizarre and funny narrative.  I want to liken it to Dick's sort of foresight but it is so much more than that. It isn't dated and I think the technology isn't that far off.


Ahhhhhh....could go on, but I won't.  Read it.  Enjoy


Danbot