Postsingular

I only finished this in the sense that I'm not going to read any more. I've liked other books by this author, so disappointed. The characters are caricatures, the "science fiction" is far more fiction than science, in the sense that he invents what ever is needed for the plot, such as it is. In the first chapter, nano machines take apart Mars and Earth, assemble them into super-powerful computers and then put them back exactly how they were, to the point where the people who were turned into both a cloud of nano-dust and a computer simulation are reassembled into themselves thinking the thoughts they had at the time of their dissolution.

Boring.

A delicious and gnarly read. If you always wanted to know what upbeat, positive and yet very trippy sci-fi reads like, this is a good start into Rudy Rucker's work.

Rudy Rucker takes on the AI singularity with his typical combination of hippie trippiness and gonzo mathematics. Not his best work, but a fun read. Warning: reading just before bed may induce crazy tangled quantum multidimensional dreams. Or maybe that was just me.

This was a very interesting fun look at the possible future. I'd put this book up on the same shelf as Neuromancer, and Snowcrash as far as pioneering thinking into the world of Cyberpunk. Awesome, and fun, if a bit silly. Still enjoyed it quite a bit.