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Book by Rucker Rudy
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Cobb Anderson created the ‘boppers,’ sentient robots that overthrew their human overlords. But now Cobb is just an aging alcoholic waiting to die, and the big boppers are threatening to absorb all of the little boppers–and eventually every human–into a giant, melded consciousness. Some of the little boppers aren’t too keen on the idea, and a full-scale robot revolt is underway on the moon (where the boppers live). Meanwhile, bopper Ralph Numbers wants to give Cobb immortality by letting a big bopper slice up his brain and tape his ‘software.’ It seems like a good idea to Cobb. Rudolf von Bitter Rucker is an American mathematician, computer scientist, science fiction author, and philosopher, and is one of the founders of the cyberpunk literary movement. The author of both fiction and non-fiction, he is best known for the novels in the Ware Tetralogy, the first two of which (Software and Wetware) both won Philip K. Dick Awards. As his “own alternative to cyberpunk,” Rucker developed a writing style he terms: Transrealism, as outlined in his 1983 essay “The Transrealist Manifesto,” is science fiction based on the author’s own life and immediate perceptions, mixed with fantastic elements that symbolize psychological change. Many of Rucker’s novels and short stories apply these ideas. Rucker often uses his novels to explore scientific or mathematical ideas; White Light examines the concept of infinity, while the Ware Tetralogy (written from 1982 through 2000) is in part an explanation of the use of natural selection to develop software (a subject also developed in his The Hacker and the Ants. His novels also put forward a mystical philosophy that Rucker has summarized in an essay titled, with only a bit of irony, “The Central Teachings of Mysticism”.
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Software
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Unknown. Etat : Fair. No Jacket. Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less 0.28. N° de réf. du vendeur G0441774083I5N00
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Software
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Ace, 1982
ISBN 10 : 0441774083
ISBN 13 : 9780441774081
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Vendeur : Ab Astra Books, Ottawa, ON, Canada
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Soft cover. Etat : Very Good. 1st Edition. Some minor shelf wear and/or spine creasing. No visible writing on the pages. N° de réf. du vendeur 12508
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Software
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Ace, 1982
ISBN 10 : 0441774083
ISBN 13 : 9780441774081
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Soft cover
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Vendeur : TotalitarianMedia, Los Angeles, CA, Etats-Unis
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Soft cover. Etat : Fine. 1st Edition. Software. Rucker, Rudy. Published by Ace, 1982.first printing. 211p. paperback, covers clean/bright, binding tight, text clean/unmarked, body square, solid copy, fine condition, looks unread--12.00. N° de réf. du vendeur ABE-1744318102994
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Software [Order of Ware, #1]
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Ace, 1982
ISBN 10 : 0441774083
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Soft cover
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Vendeur : Burm Booksellers, Beckley, WV, Etats-Unis
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Soft cover. Etat : Good. 1st Edition. Soft cover. Pocket paper back. Light edge/shelf wear. Corner bumped, lightly. Pages toned with age. Damp stained. 1st printing [per number line]. Cover art [uncredited]. Scarce/rare/hard to find/out of print. Order of Ware series, book #1. N° de réf. du vendeur 044915-1SCIFI
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Software
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Ace Books, 1982
ISBN 10 : 0441774083
ISBN 13 : 9780441774081
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Soft cover
Vendeur : Twilight of Humanity, London, Royaume-Uni
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Soft cover. Etat : Fine. Software (1982) by Rudy Rucker. Published by Ace Books. First edition. First print. Book is in Fine condition with minor wear to cover. Software is a pioneering proto-Cyberpunk work that envisions an absurd world of sentient machines. It is the first book in Rudy Rucker's Ware tetralogy (1982-2000), which follows the lives of a small number of west-coast, counter-cultural families, their haphazard and often accidental relationship with rapid technological change gradually moving towards pure technological transcendence. N° de réf. du vendeur ABE-1673098771908
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Software
Edité par
Ace Books, 1982
ISBN 10 : 0441774083
ISBN 13 : 9780441774081
Ancien ou d'occasion
Soft cover
Vendeur : Twilight of Humanity, London, Royaume-Uni
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Soft cover. Etat : Fine. Software (1982) by Rudy Rucker. Published by Ace Books. First edition. First print. Book is in Very Fine condition. Software is a pioneering proto-Cyberpunk work that envisions an absurd world of sentient machines. It is the first book in Rudy Rucker's Ware tetralogy (1982-2000), which follows the lives of a small number of west-coast, counter-cultural families, their haphazard and often accidental relationship with rapid technological change gradually moving towards pure technological transcendence. N° de réf. du vendeur ABE-1672920063791
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