Surfing The Gnarl

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In his outrageous new Cyberpunk adventure, Rucker infiltrates fundamentalist Virginia to witness the apocalyptic clash between Bible-thumpers and Saucer Demons at a country club barbecue; undresses in orbit to explore the future of foreplay in freefall; and dons the robe of a Transreal Lifestyle Adviser with How-to Tips on how one can manipulate the Fourth Dimension to master everyday tasks like finding an apartment and dispatching a tiresome lover! A quantum physics infused SF novel from this award-winning author.

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"Rudy Rucker should be declared a National Treasure of American Science Fiction...simultaneously channeling Kurt Gdel and Lenny Bruce!"
--William Gibson, author of Neuromancer and Pattern Recognition

"Rucker is a mathematician bewitched by the absurdity of the universe, and a writer possessed of a brilliantly witty pen."
--Publishers Weekly

"Rudy Rucker's sense of fun is rare indeed. He has been compared to Lewis Carroll, and the comparison is not presumptuous. Like Carroll, Rucker is a mathematician who not only enjoys paradoxes, but can propagate that enjoyment as pure lunatic humor."
--Washington Post

"Science-fiction author Rudy Rucker is an oddity and a treasure."
--Wired

"Rucker's writing is great like the Ramones are great: a genre stripped to its essence, attitude up the wazoo, and cartoon sentiments that reek of identifiable lives and issues."
--New York Review of Science Fiction

Author Bio

Rudy Rucker is a mathematician and the award-winning author of numerous science fiction titles, including The Fourth Dimension and Mathematicians in Love. He is the two-time winner of the Philip K. Dick award. He lives in Palo Alto, California.