{"id":2374,"date":"2010-06-21T10:19:34","date_gmt":"2010-06-21T18:19:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/?p=2374"},"modified":"2010-06-21T10:19:34","modified_gmt":"2010-06-21T18:19:34","slug":"the-ware-tetralogy-around-sf","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/2010\/06\/21\/the-ware-tetralogy-around-sf\/","title":{"rendered":"The Ware Tetralogy. Around SF."},"content":{"rendered":"

The Ware Tetralogy <\/a><\/em> is now in print! I have more info about it with an excerpt and a podcast on an earlier post, \u201cMonkey Brain Feast\u2026Southern Style<\/a>.\u201d\u009d<\/p>\n

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I\u2019ll drop in some blurbs for the four component novels here:<\/p>\n

Software.<\/b><\/p>\n

One of cyberpunk\u2019s most inventive works.
\n \u2014 Rolling Stone.<\/em><\/p>\n

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Wetware.<\/b><\/p>\n

Delightfully irreverent. This is science fiction as it should be: authoritative and tightly linked with our real lives and our real future.
\n \u2014 Washington Post Book World.<\/em><\/p>\n

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Freeware.<\/b><\/p>\n

One of science fiction\u2019s wittiest writers. A genius … a cult hero among discriminating cyberpunkers.
\n \u2014 San Diego Union-Tribune.<\/em><\/p>\n

Eminently satisfying … intelligent and witty … the climax of what may well have been one of the most important SF series of the past 15 years.
\n \u2014 Washington Post Book World.<\/em><\/p>\n

Much has been made of Rucker\u2019s affinity with Dick, insofar as they both identify with and honor the common man, and both men write with a lucid simplicity that allows them to convey the weirdest ideas in the easiest to understand form. Rucker wishes \u2014 for himself, his characters, and everyone else \u2014 the maximum freedom that reality will allow.
\n \u2014 Isaac Asimov\u2019s SF Magazine.<\/em><\/p>\n

It is fast-paced, funny, and celebrates the complexity of the universe without dumbing it down. It adds up to a unique voice in SF, exuberant, vigorous and dense with strange but vividly realized ideas.
\n \u2014 Interzone.<\/em><\/p>\n

Freeware <\/em>is a fearlessly weird and very funny romp through a seedy, decadent 21st century America. Rucker\u2019s evocation of the 21st century has an internal logic that provides a firm foundation for his gonzo inventiveness and dark humor.
\n \u2014 San Francisco Chronicle-Examiner.<\/em><\/p>\n

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Realware.<\/b><\/p>\n

Rucker\u2019s writing is great like the Ramones are great: a genre stripped to its essence, attitude up the wazoo, and cartoon sentiments that reek of identifiable lives and issues. Wild math you can get elsewhere, but no one does the cyber version of beatnik glory quite like Rucker. Rucker does it through sheer emotional force … it\u2019s not his universes, it\u2019s his people and how the relate to each other \u2014 and to the spiritual. That\u2019s what Realware <\/em>has going for it: healing and a calm sense of spirituality.
\n \u2014 New York Review of Science Fiction.<\/em><\/p>\n

Strangeness is one of the main attractions of science fiction, and Rucker delivers plenty of it \u2014 exotic technologies, a funky future culture, mathematical head trips. Yet Rucker invests his main characters with surprising depth and complexity. From time to time the novel\u2019s often madcap tone becomes unexpectedly serious, even tragic.
\n \u2014 SCIFI.COM<\/em><\/p>\n

Rucker has written a generational saga that spans sixty years of mind-blowing change. Without sacrificing any of his id-driven wildness, Rucker has developed into a benevolent, all-seeing creator … Realware brings to a fully satisfying conclusion this landmark quartet.
\n \u2014 Isaac Asmiov\u2019s Science Fiction Magazine.
\n<\/em><\/p>\n

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Yeah, baby! Be diggin\u2019 on the electric pig!<\/p>\n

This weekend we happened to be in the SF Civic Center, and the Juneteenth festival was going on. One of the bands playing was Sila and the Afrofunk Experience <\/a>. The lead singer, Victor Sila, is from Kenya, the ancestral home of President Obama. The band was great, hypnotic.<\/p>\n

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Almost the only other white person at this event was the guy running the sound board. It was unusual for me to be quietly sitting with this crowd, kind of liberating. Hardly anyone was eating or drinking anything, not consuming, just relaxing and enjoying the festival.<\/p>\n

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Later that night we went to a completely different kind of event, the SF Opera\u2019s staging of Wagner\u2019s Walk\u00c3\u00bcre, fully four and a half hours long, counting intermissions. During act two, while I was sitting there in my dress shirt, I felt something moving on my skin under my shirt. The next morning I figured out that I\u2019d brought back four ticks from my walks in the woods in Kentucky.<\/p>\n


\n[Downtown Lagrange, Kentucky.]<\/em><\/p>\n

Wandering around in SF in the afternoon, we went into the Japanese tea garden in Golden Gate Park\u2014if you actually live in the SF area, you tend not to go into this spot very often, as it\u2019s something of a tourist attraction. But if you push through to the back, there a nice tiny Zen rock garden.<\/p>\n

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Near the garden was a statue of Buddha, with a spiderweb covering his face. That\u2019s kind of where my writing muse is at these days, covered over, inactive. I\u2019m still recovering from finishing the last novel, Jim and the Flims<\/em>, I guess.<\/p>\n

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Another walled-off muse is in the Civic Center park\u2014it\u2019s this statue called \u201cThree Heads Six Arms,\u201d\u009d and the city has put a fence around it <\/a>because people were writing graffiti on it, also they\u2019re worried about people climbing on it. Supposedly the fence is temporary, and the web will blow away. Let\u2019s hope so.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Ware Tetralogy is now in print! I have more info about it with an excerpt and a podcast on an earlier post, \u201cMonkey Brain Feast\u2026Southern Style.\u201d\u009d I\u2019ll drop in some blurbs for the four component novels here: Software. One of cyberpunk\u2019s most inventive works. \u2014 Rolling Stone. Wetware. Delightfully irreverent. This is science fiction […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2374","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2374","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2374"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2374\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2376,"href":"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2374\/revisions\/2376"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2374"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2374"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2374"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}