Rudy Rucker

novel, science fiction, cyberpunk, cyberspace, humor

"Harry Gerber was sitting on my steering wheel.

"He was two inches tall. A much smaller version of him was perched on the gearshift as well. And the tiny dots darting around on my dashboard - something told me they were a flock of tinier Harrys. All of them wore grey polyester suits, white shirts, and no neckties.

"The little figure on the steering wheel hailed me with a cheerful wave of its tiny arm. 'Hey, Fletch! Pretty slick, huh?' He sounded like Mickey Mouse. 'I needed your encouragement, Fletcher. I've come back here to make sure you really are going to see me tomorrow. I remember that when you showed up tomorrow you'd seen me tiny in your car'.

"This was a strange mix of tenses. I thought for a moment. 'You've invented time travel then?'

"The little man on the dashboard glowed with pride. 'Time travel's nothing. I'm the master of space and time, Fletch'." [jacket blurb, US pbk, 1985]

"Entertaining... moving and taut." -- (in LA Times Book Review ).

"Almost anything I tell you will ruin the surprises... a welcome addition to the bookshelf." -- (in Locus ).

"Money? A cure for world hunger? A beautiful body? Rudy Rucker, professional mathematician and master of the crazy scenario, has probably already thought of it." -- (in Locus ).

"Rucker is... bewitched by the absurdity of the universe implied in quantum theory, and a writer possessed of a brilliantly witty pen. His narrative concerns two mildly mad scientists who discover a way to control reality... an inventive and hilarious variation on the fairy tale of the granting of three wishes." - (in Publishers Weekly ).

*note: Thanks to Neil Pellinacci (Neil@badlands.demon.co.uk) for supplying the typed text of the jacket blurb and quoted reviews.

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