Enjoy Saucer Wisdom Fabricated By Rudy Rucker Contained In Copy

is probably my favorite bk by Rucker yet, It gave me a new respect for him, Its framing device is that he meets a man named 'Frank Shook' who has a technique for traveling thru "paratime" w/ 'saucer' creatures who teach him about future developments that he then informs Rucker about.
In addition to an impressive quantity of tech ideas, there's plenty here to make the plot twisty amp multileveled,

For one thing, Rucker amp Shook amp co go to a Mondoparty, Rucker uses this passage to both praise Mondoa magazine that once promoted an event of mine thusly aiding the quantity of participation enormously amp to humorously describe why he won't write for them anymore.
This touch added immensely to the purported autobiographical approach as did Rucker's attempts to withdraw from alcohol although I have no idea whether Rucker, in 'real' life has had a problem w/ booze.
Like everything else I've read by him so far, this is a very California novel filled w/ New Age, Hippie, Stoner, Silicon Valley, amp Surfer culture.
Interestingly, the back cover says: "File Under Science/UFOs" amp the inside copyright, etc, page has this:

"The right of Rudy Rucker to be identified as author of this work has been asserted by him in accordance with sectionsandof the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act,"

Is this a clever way of making the 'Frank Shook' story more believable An actual requirement of the publisher to try to prevent claims on the work Whatever the case may be, Bruce Sterling's Introduction contests the believability that there's really a 'Frank Shook' person behind it all.
It seems unlikely to me too, . but not completely impossible! Regardless, the 'Shook' frame makes the story that much richer,

My friend Jona Pelovska reads Rucker's science bks, wch I've never read, "Saucer Wisdom" the title of wch I don't particularly like motivates me to read everything I can find by him including the science stuff wch I might not ordinarily be that interested in.


Maybe the only thing that keeps me from giving this bk a "star rating" is the writing style, Rucker's writing is a very straightforward 'pulp' style that makes for easy reading but, even though he plays w/ that in some interesting ways amp even though there're other 'pulp' writers who have an astounding 'poetic' feel for language, it always seems to never really flow the way that 'pulp' greats like Hammett amp Chandler do.


An interesting coincidence, for me at least, is that when I came to the "Devil's Tower" part of the story I was sittingfeet away from a VHS copy of a National Park movie about Devil's Tower that I'd had sitting around for a mnth or so.
I stopped reading long enuf to check out the movie, I love that kind of synchronicity, Author Rudy Rucker offers a oneofakind “history” of the future in this staggeringly inventive metafictional novel involving UFOs and time travel,

Frank Shook, who lives in the hills of California outside Silicon Valley, is a UFO abductee, communicating with extraterrestrial beings who take him on wild flying saucer rides, zigzagging through time to give Frank vivid looks into the future of humanity.


Franks bizarre claims are intriguing to author Rudy Rucker, who agrees to transcribe Franks notes from his journeys, The result A fascinating, and illuminating account of the forthcoming evolution of humankind, From telepathy to time travel to transhumanity, from hardware to software to wetware, Saucer Wisdom, spanning two millennia, is a profoundly creative work of truly speculative metafiction, a catalog of the future as only Rudy Rucker the awardwinning reallife author, that is could tell it.


Night Shade Books tenvolume series with Rudy Rucker collects nine of the brilliantly weird novels for which the mathematicianturnedauthor is known, as well as a tenth, neverbeforepublished book, MillionMile Road Trip.
Were proud to collect in one place so much of the work of this influential figure in the early cyberpunk scene, and to share Ruckers fascinating, unique worldview with an entirely new generation of readers.
Kinda Science fiction, but super bizarro book about the future through the eyes of cyberpunk genius Rudy Rucker, So the story is a time travel comes from the future to tell Rudy all about and he is supposed to write a book about the future of science and technology.
Not much of a story but it is a funny look at the possible future, Makes you think and Laugh, If you clipped out one long chapter near the beginning which was not narrative in orientation but was rather a long explanatory chapter about the future, then this story would have been very entertaining.
The set up and concept was great and fun to read, But that one chapter nearly killed my desire to progress, Basically I gave up on this book, While the premise was interesting at the start it soon turned into just silliness,

As you can guess from the title the story revolves around a fiction writer contacted by someone who claims to have had multiple trips in a flying saucer into what they

claim as "paratime".


May appeal to a young audience I kept putting this one off, and once started, kept putting it down, Nothing wrong with it, it's fun and light and has a bare narrative, In the end, enjoyable when taken in small doses, Whimsical, optimistic, original. Slightly uncomfortable at times, in a good way, Rudolf von Bitter Rucker is an American mathematician, computer scientist, science fiction author, and one of the founders of the cyberpunk genre, He is best known for his Ware Tetralogy, the first two of which won Philip K, Dick awards. Presently, Rudy Rucker edits the science fiction webzine Flurb, .