Rudy Rucker: Software (Genuine People Personality Machine Intelligence)
The first in Ruckers Ware series, and the first book in which Ruckerbeing tips over the boundary of suspicion that he is not pure Meat, but part Machine bopper meat writing machine intelligence cyborgized into superconducting free will. The tactic of writing from the point of view of your flesh components in an effort to garner empathy is particularly hyperspatially valid. Although I preferred Wetware in terms of plotification, Software has a few more rough edges, which I enjoy more, particularly in the current environment of over formulaic literature. If youve got to use a formula, at least use some recursive computability, please! The endless linearity of the majority of formula driven plottings must have some role in the higher order of overall thermodynamic regulation. But the entire Ware series defys this gravitas, and is well worth starting if youve never encountered it.
- sta hi [Oct 4 2006 11:27 AM]
