The Sex Sphere Contributor(s): Rucker, Rudy (Author), Newitz, Annalee (Introduction by) |
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ISBN: 1949102017 ISBN-13: 9781949102017 Publisher: Night Shade Books OUR PRICE: $13.49 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: September 2019 |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Science Fiction - Cyberpunk - Fiction | Science Fiction - Hard Science Fiction - Fiction | Science Fiction - Alien Contact |
Dewey: 813.54 |
LCCN: 2018041198 |
Physical Information: 0.8" H x 5" W x 6.9" (0.45 lbs) 264 pages |
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
Publisher Description: A-bomb + a slacker prof + a sexy hypersphere = cyberpunk extravaganza in this outrageous, comic, and oddly erotic tale of true love and nuclear terrorism from Rudy Rucker. When Alwin, a disaffected young physicist, takes a vacation in Florence with his wife Sybil and finds himself kidnapped by terrorists, he is soon wrapped up in a potentially world-changing--and utterly bizarre--plot. It's not just that the terrorists are building an atomic bomb, which they want Alwin to help with, and it's not just that he is desperately attracted to one of his captors. It's that they have trapped a weird, four-dimensional creature of hypermatter who happens to resemble, well, a spherical naked woman. And who absolutely oozes mind-clouding, desire-inducing pheromones . . . Before they know it, Alwin and Sybil are both discovering the pleasures and curiosities of the sex sphere, while on the run from the various forces chasing them. But what is the sphere itself, really? Why is it stuck in our dimension? And what does it want in the end? Night Shade Books' ten-volume series with Rudy Rucker collects nine of the brilliantly weird novels for which the mathematician-turned-author is known, as well as a tenth, never-before-published book, Million Mile Road Trip. We're proud to collect in one place so much of the work of this influential figure in the early cyberpunk scene, and to share Rucker's fascinating, unique worldview with an entirely new generation of readers. |