Jim and the Flims

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Jim and the Flims is just as quirky and enjoyable as everything else hes written. Ricker knows how to bring the spark of life to the realm of death. Rick Kleffel, The Agony Column

Author Rudy Rucker brings his unmistakable style to the afterlife in this mind-blowingly gnarly science fiction surfer novel.

A quantum experiment by disaffected bioengineer-turned-mailman Jim Oster has gone wrong, accidentally rupturing the membrane between our world and an afterworld called Flimsycreating a two-way tunnel that kills his pregnant wife. Jim thinks life couldnt get worse.

Until, that is, he realizes that hes now facing an invasion of the Flimssubdimensional creatures who resemble blue baboons and flying beetsand that he may be the only one who can do anything about it. Aided by a posse of Santa Cruz surf-punksone of whom keeps an Egyptian mummy in his basement, and may also be a serial killerJim plunges into a mad series of adventures in the afterworldwhere he just might be able to find his wife and bring her back to life. . . .

Night Shade Books ten-volume series with Rudy Rucker collects nine of the brilliantly weird novels for which the mathematician-turned-author is known, as well as a tenth, never-before-published book, Million Mile Road Trip. Were proud to collect in one place so much of the work of this influential figure in the early cyberpunk scene, and to share Ruckers fascinating, unique worldview with an entirely new generation of readers.

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Rudy Rucker is a writer and a mathematician who worked for twenty years as a Silicon Valley computer science professor. He is regarded as contemporary master of science-fiction, and received the Philip K. Dick award twice. His thirty published books include both novels and non-fiction books on the fourth dimension, infinity, and the meaning of computation. A founder of the cyberpunk school of science-fiction, Rucker also writes SF in a realistic style known as transrealism, often including himself as a character. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.