Spaceland

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Joe Cube is employed by a Silicon Valley startup and on New Year's Eve takes home an experimental machine. His marriage is shakier than he realizes, he's sort of a loose cannon himself, and now, when he turns on the machine, he's frightened to be contacted by Momo, a woman from the fourth dimension. She promises to make him rich if he'll help her with a project.The four-dimensional vision she gives him does come in handy at the blackjack tables in Vegas. His wife likes that a lot, but she's also starting an affair with another guy from the lab, and Momo's scheme turns out to have angles they couldn't have imagined. Suddenly the fate of life here in Spaceland is at stake. This is mind-blowing Science Fiction at its best, and a special treat for mathematics lovers.

Reviews

"Science fiction author-hero Rudy Rucker is an oddity and a treasure . . . . In these days of neat little marketing categories, few writers attempt to cover so much ground." --Wired

"His work links the largest possible cosmic view with the trivia and tribulations of everyday life . . . . He portrays thoroughly real, everyday people grappling with some far-fetched phenomenon . . . with comic results." --Fantasy & Science Fiction.

"A hilarious tribute to Edwin Abbott's Flatland . . . combining valid mathematical speculation with wicked send-ups of Silicon Valley and its often otherworldly tribespeople . . . belly-laugh funny." --Publishers Weekly (starred review)

Author Bio

Rudy Rucker lives in California. Hes is best known for his book The Fourth Dimension.