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Jim and the Flims Paperback – November 17, 2014

by Rudy Rucker (Author)

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A wild romp that recasts the myth of Orpheus and Eurydice in the 21st century surf-punk/slacker world of Santa Cruz and-the afterworld. Jim braves this world of "flims," hoping to bring his wife back from the dead.

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284 pages
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Transreal Books
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November 17, 2014
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5.51 x 0.6 x 8.5 inches
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1940948096
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978-1940948096
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Jim and the Flims offers Rucker's delightfully eccentric and transrealist approach to what turns out to be a kind of modern-day Orpheus tale. It's often silly and lighthearted, but it's buoyed by the emotional weight of Jim's quest, and also by theoften beautiful and moving view of life and death. And I can guarantee that it'sprobably not at all like anything else you're going to read this summer.
           -- Tor.com

I love Rudy Rucker. The guy is simply incomparable when it comes to writingscience fiction, managing to seamlessly blend highly intelligen texistential and scientific speculation with wildly satirical an dinsanely imaginative plotlines...You can imagine my delight when a copy of his newest release, Jim and the Flims,landed on my doorstep. In this novel, Rucker reimagines the myth of Orpheus as only he can.
           -- Barnes & Noble Book Club

Jim and the Flims...Rudy Rucker's weirdest, craziest, colorfulest book yet? That's saying a lot, I know. But when it is at its most bizarre, it is also most hilarious.Nobody else writes like Rudy.
           --MarcLaidlaw, author of Kalifornia

About the Author

Rudy Rucker is a writer, a mathematician, and a computer scientist. He received Philip K. Dick awards for his cyberpunk novels Software and Wetware, and an Emperor Norton award for his autobiography Nested Scrolls. He lives in the San Francisco Bay area, and he paints in his spare time. His recent titles include a novel, The Big Aha, and an omnibus, Transreal Trilogy.

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Publisher ‏ : ‎ Transreal Books; 2nd edition (November 17, 2014)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Paperback ‏ : ‎ 284 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1940948096
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1940948096
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 11.7 ounces
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 5.51 x 0.6 x 8.5 inches

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Rudy Rucker has written forty books, both pop science. and SF novels in the cyberpunk and transreal styles. He received Philip K. Dick awards for for the novels in his "Ware Tetralogy". His "Complete Stories," and his nonfiction "The Fourth Dimension" are standouts. He worked as a professor of computer science in Silicon Valley for twenty years. He paints works relating to his tales. His latest novel "Juicy Ghosts" is about telepathy, immortality, and a new revolution. Rudy blogs at www.rudyrucker.com/blog

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A. McLaren

I was laughing out loud by page four.

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on July 31, 2011

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Easy to read, funny and as usual with Rudy Rucker, packed full of interesting ideas.

Some critics say "when anything and everything is possible, nothing is interesting",
but Rudy Rucker truly goes beyond "anything and everything",
this a rich and hugely enjoyable journey to places no writer has ever been before.
That said, I do realise this intense richness of ideas may be a challenge for some readers,
so open your mind and enjoy the trip!

Charles Howard Hinton makes a brief appearance,
which is a nice touch if your familiar with his work.
Also features a very clever and original way to find the "mystic portal" and
the method of closing the same portal is also very clever.
Somewhat similar themes to his book 'White Light', so if you enjoyed that, you'll love this.

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Genconn

Page Turner!

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on November 23, 2012

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The story drew me in and didn't let go. I haven't had much time lately to read but "Jim and the Flims" kept me coming back to grab a few minutes of time just to see how it would all work out. If surreal doesn't bother you and you like slightly goofy reads you'll enjoy this book.

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Aquiferman

Much enjoyed ... but needs an editor

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on February 7, 2013

Being a long-time Rucker fan, I really enjoyed "Jim and the Flims." Although I have "never inhaled," I felt that this must be what it is like. However, the editing was quite poor ... punctuation problems, names substituted for other characters, words left out, and so on. Buy it, but have patience ... it was like the editor was inhabited by a jiva.

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Jayson

Rucker is beyond titles

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on January 19, 2012

Okay, here is my review "Wow!" ... I am just not sure how to write about this book, or that I even grasp all that there is to the story, but I loved it. Yiou really have to like Rudy Rucker's work to get into this, I am pretty sure, but if you are so inclined, it is a great work. Before buying this book, I saw reviews here that turned out to be very off base. It is as if those people read a different book. The story is not wandering all over, and strange things are not randomly popping in and out of the story. There are some strange concepts and things in there, don't get me wrong, but it is all very calculated and refined, and the story is solid. This is actually a very quick read; the story is an action adventure and it moves along at a good fast pace.

As I get older I am finding myself reading books about being old, dying, or after that, like Old Man's War for instance (one that lets us old farts fantasize about what it would be like if we could continue to live in our prime). This one presents an afterlife that is attractive and exciting. I could be quite happy as a Flim I think.

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And It Spoke

Clever and promising, but ultimately paper thin.

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on April 2, 2013

If drug culture, meta-physics and whimsy are your thing, than maybe this one is for you. The tale of a stoner challenging the status quo of the afterlife due to an accident with a molecular mapper her created in his garage has tons of potential...

However, potential is the only thing we really get. Plain and simple, the narrative reads like a rattled off semi-fever dream with characters that have no depth. Things start out promising, then go into a stream of consciousness story, only coming back to life for the last couple of chapters.

The metaphysics of the book are charming, the fact that the author seems to know both science and spirituality is refreshing... but ultimately, the plot and characters fail to provide the good

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Josh Vogt

Tried hard to enjoy it

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on June 24, 2011

One of the blurbs on the cover of this book states: "Like lucid dreaming, only funny." This is fitting in some ways. Not so in others--mostly in the aspect of actually being funny.

The issue with trying to relay a dream in an entertaining fashion, is that often enough, the actual events and elements of a dream aren't nearly as entertaining or funny to the person being told as they were to the dreamer. Now, individual aspects of a dream, such as an alligator rowing a canoe on the back of an elephant while being chased by a horde of robots, might seem humorous at first glance. However, if you try to hammer that element into an overarching plot that is more of these same semi-nonsensical images and fuzzy logic, it quickly turns into a random number of scenes that don't really hold together.

Such is the dreamlike flaw of Jim and the Flims.

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Tim A

Another wonderful book from Rucker

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on March 24, 2013

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Jim and the Flims is the kind of mind boggling book I expect from Rudy Rucker. A quest novel for slackers with his concept of circular scale making a welcome return.

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