- Paperback: 256 pages
- Publisher: Lighthouse Press (September 2002)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0971482799
- ISBN-13: 978-0971482791
- Product Dimensions: 21.1 x 13.5 x 1.3 cm
- Shipping Weight: 290 g
- Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #2,272,316 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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This groundbreaking science-fiction collection explores worlds separated from our own by imperceptible veils. In Liquid Earth, reality melts along a rustic Main Street in Shrub Oak, New York. The Lobotomy Club begins in a New Orleans bar, and Sushi Never Sleeps in a New York electronics store. Egg Drop Soup starts with a walk along the tranquil Chesapeake River. All familiar settings at first glance, but a new reality awaits...
You'll visit worlds replete with beautiful women and their surgically altered brains, fractal sex, Noah's Ark, hyperspace physics, hallucinating androids, prophetic ants, exotic sushi, satanic aliens, vitamin B-12, novel plastics, cosmic wormholes, and quests for God and the structure of ultimate reality.
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The books in the Neoreality series may be read in any order. The books are on similar themes but are separate and distinct.
Rumi, the 13th-century Sufi poet and mystic, once wrote: "The nature of reality is this: It is hidden, and it is hidden, and it is hidden." But what is reality? What is transcendence? How can we open our minds so that we can reason beyond the limits of our intuition? When Albert Einstein was asked about reality, he replied, "Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one." In an effort to stretch reader's minds, Pickover has considered both Einstein and Rumi while publishing thirty books on topics on the borderlands of science and religion. Most recently, and perhaps most importantly, he published four science-fiction novels in a "Neoreality" series in which both the reader and protagonists cope with parallel realities.
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Egg, Mystery, Parallel Universes,
By Melanie Michaels (Seattle, WA) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Egg Drop Soup (Paperback)
In Egg Drop Soup, an alien object allows people to explore countless realities populated by a host of mysterious beings. I like the Chesapeake setting, the beautiful scenery, the quirky inhabitants. My favorite character in the book is Nautilus, a very scary, deadly, and perhaps even sympathetic girl. Perhaps parallel universes like the parallel-Chesapeake exist. Someday I'd like to visit some of the Chesapeake settings...Most of the books in Pickover's Neoreality series have a bit of fun strangeness tossed in, and Egg Drop Soup is no exception. For example, I like the cryptic puzzle in the Enochian language that David finds in the library. I've read the four books in the Neoreality set (they can be read in any order) and really liked this one.
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Egg, Mystery, Parallel Universes,
By Melanie Michaels (Seattle, WA) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Egg Drop Soup (Paperback)
In Egg Drop Soup, an alien object allows people to explore countless realities populated by a host of mysterious beings. I like the Chesapeake setting, the beautiful scenery, the quirky inhabitants. My favorite character in the book is Nautilus, a very scary, deadly, and perhaps even sympathetic girl. Perhaps parallel universes like the parallel-Chesapeake exist. Someday I'd like to visit some of the Chesapeake settings...Most of the books in Pickover's Neoreality series have a bit of fun strangeness tossed in, and Egg Drop Soup is no exception. For example, I like the cryptic puzzle in the Enochian language that David finds in the library. I've read the four books in the Neoreality set (they can be read in any order) and really liked this one.
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Egg, Mystery, Parallel Universes,
By Melanie Michaels - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Egg Drop Soup (Paperback)
In Egg Drop Soup, an alien object allows people to explore countless realities populated by a host of mysterious beings. I like the Chesapeake setting, the beautiful scenery, the quirky inhabitants. My favorite character in the book is Nautilus, a very scary, deadly, and perhaps even sympathetic girl. Perhaps parallel universes like the parallel-Chesapeake exist. Someday I'd like to visit some of the Chesapeake settings...Most of the books in Pickover's Neoreality series have a bit of fun strangeness tossed in, and Egg Drop Soup is no exception. For example, I like the cryptic puzzle in the Enochian language that David finds in the library. I've read the four books in the Neoreality set (they can be read in any order) and really liked this one. 1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:
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Philip K. Dick Redivivus,
By Juan M. Marin - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Egg Drop Soup (Paperback)
If Philip K. Dick were alive today he would be writing the Neoreality series. Pickover continues the task in Egg Drop Soup where parallel worlds make us ask, how can be sure we are living in the same reality we were living in yesterday? Whether you like real science, religious symbolism, or a fun story to keep you awake; this book will surely entertain you. Wonder and surprises await. You will never look at an egg the same way.
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Parallel Universes in the Oceans,
By Susan Roche - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Egg Drop Soup (Paperback)
There are parallel universes all around us, just millimeters away -- or so this book would make it seem. From the opening pages, I found the book pulled me in. The egg falls from the sky and is so mysterious that we just have to learn more. I love the interplay between the main characters: the romance, the strangeness... All around them are little roads that lead to new worlds, new shores to explore, and eerie seas to sale on.
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