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Freeware (Hardcover)

by Rudy Rucker (Author)
2.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (9 customer reviews)

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In Wetware the chip mold virus destroyed the sentient robots called boppers. But the virus itself has spawned a new life form called moldies. The moldies are beings made out of a sort of malleable plastic called imoplex. Humans and moldies live in an almost-amicable truce, but radicals (and not-so-radicals) on each side wouldn't hesitate to use--or destroy--those on the other. When a moldie called Monique becomes ensnared in a grand plot that seems to be either the work of anti-moldie humans or anti-human moldies, everyone becomes involved in an effort to either save or destroy the Earth.


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In hip, staccato language, the master of cyberpunk (e.g., The Hacker and the Ants, Avon, 1994) merges California surfer culture with a tale of 21st-century artificial plastic and mold lifeforms. The intertwined lives of Heritagist fanatic anti-Moldies, the Moldies' inventors, human "cheeseballs" who have sex with Moldies, and isolationist Moldies on the Moon enliven this fast-paced tale of kidnapping and alien takeover. Recommended for sf collections.
Copyright 1997 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

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2.0 out of 5 stars Too ugly for me, April 26 2001
By A. G. Plumb "Greg Plumb" (Melbourne, Australia) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Freeware (Mass Market Paperback)
The best part of this novel is the ending - not just the fact that I got to the end, but the actual story in the last couple of chapters. For the rest I found the story appallingly ugly. Was Mr Rucker using bodily functions and, especially smell, that most pervasive of all senses, to demonstrate a symbiosis developing between humankind and the moldies (an invention of humankind)? But everytime I found some part of the story that seemed to catch a bit of my interest I found it snatched away by the ugliness again. There was also the matter of the time sequencing shown by the dates at the start of each chapter - I found myself having to go back again and again to try to understand how the events actually unfolded. (One of the aliens at the end of the novel does have a time independent (?) existance that Mr Rucker might have been trying to prepare us for - but I just found it a labour). A novel with a really interesting time sequencing is Piers Anthony's 'Chthon' and this unusual word - chthon - does pop up in 'Freeware'.

I was disappointed in this novel because I enjoyed Mr Rucker's book on infinity, 'Infinity and the Mind', with its fascinating concepts of different sizes of infinity and the elegant ways in which these can be demonstrated. I also enjoyed his novel 'White Light' which is quite different to 'Freeware'.

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5.0 out of 5 stars energetic, imaginative & fun.., Jul 6 2000
This review is from: Freeware (Mass Market Paperback)
..what else can you ask from a science fiction book? Good characterization, plausible sciences & other stuff you can find in any boring science speculation book scribbled by engineers.

Rudy Rucker belongs to the GREAT freewheeling tradition of imaginative writers; forget Kim Stanley Robinson and Arthur C. Clarke, think van Vogt, Charles Harness and Barrington Bayley - he invents his science (that's why it's called fiction, eh?) and bounces off to the nomansland like some mutant kangaroo. This is stuff you can barely find on the shelves today as franchise poop is being pushed on all the fronts. Rucker knows his science but isn't limited by it - he writes straight from his subunconscious pool, winging it with gusto and joy. Engineers beware, this works on dream-logic and grabs you by the jellyfish.

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2.0 out of 5 stars nice story, sci-fi this is not, Feb 7 2000
By Victor Wiewiorowski (Tokyo Japan) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Freeware (Mass Market Paperback)
Science fiction needs the integral component of science. Rucker's universe leaves a bad taste in my mouth of breaking most of the laws of physics, without much more than babbly pseudo-future-science jargon, hand waving.

It's a nice enough story but file under fantasy. Two notches below masters like Sterling, Di Filipo, Stephenson.

Oh did I mention most of the book is in annoying future-surfer speak, and obsessed with sex?

Like not quite gnarly enough dude....

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2.0 out of 5 stars Vintage Rucker: more twisted than ever
Freeware picks up where Rucker's other work left off, with enough of the requisite re-hashing to make the novel stand on its own. Read more
Published on Dec 10 1999 by Count Zero

5.0 out of 5 stars A delightful tale of a world shared by humans and A-life.
I loved this book. It's light in style and narrative structure, and rucker doesn't take himself at all serriously. Read more
Published on Dec 8 1999 by KEVIN M. OCONNOR

1.0 out of 5 stars Made me sick before I could read 1/3 of the book
I really enjoyed some of Rucker's previous work, but here his imagination has taken a turn so disgusting that I could not continue.
Published on Oct 14 1999

3.0 out of 5 stars The best of the three.
I thought this was the best of the three in the series. I especially liked how he told the story from several points of view.
Published on Jul 6 1999

2.0 out of 5 stars For RR fans, pass this up.
I've read a majority of Rudy Ruckers fiction, and this is without a doubt the most disappointing. Most of his work has a cerebral taste, but this work comes off as a cerebral... Read more
Published on Jul 3 1999

1.0 out of 5 stars Am I the Only one that thinks this book truly stinks?
I really don't see this book as that inventive or great. To someone who has read of the wonders and possibilities of nanotechnology, this book just comes off as another lame... Read more
Published on Oct 15 1998

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