Rucker's best novel -- wonderfully bizarre. 5+ stars

books:


	• Master of Space and Time Rudy Rucker Running Press, 2005 - 288 pages average customer review:based on 9 reviews view larger image
	for more information click here

highly recommended

Rucker's best novel -- wonderfully bizarre. 5+ stars

______________________________________________
"Master of Space
& Time" (1985) is still my favorite Rucker novel,
in which the tale of three wishes granted is explored via quantum
mechanics, with wonderfully bizarre results. The apotheosis of Harry
Gerber... I've read MST at least three times, & laughed aloud each time. One never knows
what someone else's taste in humor might be, but I've given away at least half-a-dozen
copies of MST over the years, and never heard a complaint. I'm very glad to see it back in print.

Happy reading--
Peter D. Tillman

for more information click here

Cute, but not his best

I love Rucker's work... but this was not his best. This novel involves people making 'wishes.' And the wishes really aren't thought through very well, even when the novel suggests they are. This is obviously one of Rudy's earlier works... its fun and enjoyable, but he has produced much better.

for more information click here

Michel Gondry's adaptation...

Any chance of this book actually being reprinted now that it is being adapted as the next film by the brilliant Michel Gondry? I'd like to read it, but I don't want to shell out twenty-five bucks for a paperback when I know the film will be brilliant anyway.

reviews: page 1, 2

The real world is unbearable to madcap inventor Harry Gerber, so he uses his genius to twist the laws of science and create his own tailor-made universe. Master of Space and Time combines high physics and high jinks, blurring the line between science and magic. From a voyage to a mirror-image world where sluglike parasites make slaves of humanity, to trees and bushes that grow fries and pork chops, to a rain of fish, author Rudy Rucker?two-time winner of the Philip K. Dick Award?takes readers on the ultimate joyride. But once the gluons at the core of Harry's creation run out ... disaster looms for Harry and his friends.

for more information click here

hot