Wetware (Mass Market Paperback)

~ Rudy V. B. Rucker (Author)

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Humans created the sentient robot "boppers," but now it's the boppers who have started creating humans. Clones and DNA-splicing have spawned the meatbop, a human body infused with the software (the mind and personality) of a bopper. The meatbops are interested in propagating down on Earth, but that might not be so good for humanity (the boppers have a nasty habit of enslaving humans, actually). When a couple of (reasonably) innocent humans get tangled up in the bopper's machinations on the moon, it's time to drag out the stored mind of bopper-creator Cobb Anderson and see if he can help.

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"A genius. . .A cult hero among discriminating cyberpunkers" -- -- San Diego Union-Tribune

"One of science fiction's wittiest writers" -- -- San Francisco Chronicle

"You cannot know where modern science fiction has gotten to unless you are familiar with Rucker's work." -- -- Fantasy & Science Fiction

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Product Details

• Mass Market Paperback: 183 pages
• Publisher: Eos; 2nd printing edition (April 1997)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0380701782
• ISBN-13: 978-0380701780
• Product Dimensions: 7 x 4.2 x 0.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 3.2 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 3.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (12 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #788,477 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars exciting science fiction thrill ride, December 4, 2000

By	Aaron (Macomb, IL USA) - See all my reviews

Rudy Rucker's Wetware is a must read for any science fiction enthusiast. Rucker paints a very interesting view of the future where humans and robots have colonized the moon. After being exiled from Earth, robots created cities on the moon only to be again kicked out by humans. The robots, called boppers, now live beneath the moon's surface planning their revenge. When the boppers decide to re-colonize the earth through artificially impregnating a human woman, the story begins to take wild twists and turns. Like the rest of the book, Rucker does not disappoint his readers with the story's conclusion. Although Rucker adds a lot of his own jargon to the story, it is an easy read. Reading this book has turned me on to Rucker's other books in his four-part series and on to science fiction literature in general. Wetware appeals to a wide variety of people from the science fiction aficionado to the average reader.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Brilliant, January 12, 2008

By	J. F. Cantrell (Winter Springs, FL USA) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

Sorry, but I don't understand the negative reviews. This book is so well, so completely conceived, it really has few peers. Hilarious, too. There are more projective/predictive ideas in the first chapter than in most writer's entire oeuvres. It makes perfect sense to me and I am awe at an author who has such a vivid, logical, and prolific imagination. Well written, too, in a gonzo way.

Incidentally, the boppers aren't robots, exactly. They are more like self-programmable, sentient, artificial protoplasm... with good senses of humor, no less (well, some of them).

Highly recommended.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Science fiction fantasy, June 18, 1999

By A Customer

Definitely not a book to be taking seriously. A fun-filled romp into the future that has no basis in reality which makes it so much fun. A quick easy read. Most enjoyable is the dicussion of what it means to be 'alive' or what constitutes life. The concept of artificial intelligence as another step in human evolution is interesting.