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Summary: Read it...........trust me
Review: Rucker will open up your mind with this book Wetware. The imagination Rucker has of the future is crazy yet believable enough to immerse yourself in him world. Wetware takes you to a world with self-sufficient robots living on the moon and people melting themselves for pleasure. The humans no longer control the robots; the robots are trying to control humans. If you are thinking this is just another book about robots, you are wrong. This book is not the norm in robot books. Rucker's robots come is huge variety of different shapes and sizes. They can even show their emotions though colors flashing across there bodies. Rucker gives a fresh view and some new concepts in his world of the future. How far will AI go? How far could the human race take drugs to satisfy sexual of emotional needs? Could human actually live off earth? After you read this book, you might wonder about these same things. This book does jump around a little but is still easy to follow. Wetware has made me want to read the other books in this series, Software, Freeware and Realware. If you are a cyberpunk fan then it is well worth the read!
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Summary: Read it...........trust me
Review: Rucker will open up your mind with this book Wetware. The imagination Rucker has of the future is crazy yet believable enough to immerse yourself in him world. Wetware takes you to a world with self-sufficient robots living on the moon and people melting themselves for pleasure. The humans no longer control the robots; the robots are trying to control humans. If you are thinking this is just another book about robots, you are wrong. This book is not the norm in robot books. Rucker's robots come is huge variety of different shapes and sizes. They can even show their emotions though colors flashing across there bodies. Rucker gives a fresh view and some new concepts in his world of the future. How far will AI go? How far could the human race take drugs to satisfy sexual of emotional needs? Could human actually live off earth? After you read this book, you might wonder about these same things. This book does jump around a little but is still easy to follow. Wetware has made me want to read the other books in this series, Software, Freeware and Realware. If you are a cyberpunk fan then it is well worth the read!
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Summary: One of the best Sci-Fi's I've read in a long time
Review: A really inventive and fun book. I liked it so much I got the rest of them!
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Summary: Science fiction fantasy
Review: Definitely not a book to be taking seriously. A fun-filled romp into the future that has no basis in reality which makes it so much fun. A quick easy read. Most enjoyable is the dicussion of what it means to be 'alive' or what constitutes life. The concept of artificial intelligence as another step in human evolution is interesting.
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Summary: ok, but don't be fooled
Review: it has a decent premise, but SO much is wrong!!! If Rucker is the choice of discriminating cyberpunks, then I want to turn in my membership. Other writers may throw in a different word of slang here and there.... but in the first 20 pages of this book, I read about 150+ of them that was dumped in! I was questioning just WHAT was going on!!! And why are they called "boppers"?! What does that name have to do with what they are? The names are unoriginal (Whitey Mydol? Take a guess where THAT came from); some of the stuff is total garbage (have you EVER met anyone so STONED that they wouldn't notice something wrong about a baby coming to term in 9 DAYS instead of 9 months, or that the kids grows up 1 year per day?!?!? I never have). The drug merge was also total garbage; nice plot device, but TOTALLY unrealistic! A drug that breaks you down into a puddle of ooze?!?!? Then let's you REFORM?!?!? Not bloody likely! A reader that's looking for something good should SERIOUSLY skip this book!
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Summary: too.....weird....brain....hurting...growing....weak
Review: just about the strangest robot book I've read. Books about robots and androids can see dull, and the idea can seem played, but this is far from the norm. Rucker keeps the idea new and ads a bunch of is own concepts to create a belivable though fantastic future.
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Summary: "Wet" wears thin
Review: Rucker's "Wetware" is one of those books that confirms everything bad that some people believe about Science Fiction. Aside from a rushed pace and the overused "robotic messiah" plotline, the most frusturating thing about Wetware is the fact that you can't avoid its prevalent sexism. Women exist either as prostitutes for drug dealers or temporary carriers for robot/human hybrids. In such an environment it takes a strong author to create sympathies for a character, but here all we are left with is a depressing vision of all the characters as scum without the vitality of prose that Gibson or Stephenson manage to portray even their most unsympathetic character with.
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Summary: "Wet" wears thin
Review: Rucker's "Wetware" is one of those books that confirms everything bad that some people believe about Science Fiction. Aside from a rushed pace and the overused "robotic messiah" plotline, the most frusturating thing about Wetware is the fact that you can't avoid its prevalent sexism. Women exist either as prostitutes for drug dealers or temporary carriers for robot/human hybrids. In such an environment it takes a strong author to create sympathies for a character, but here all we are left with is a depressing vision of all the characters as scum without the vitality of prose that Gibson or Stephenson manage to portray even their most unsympathetic character with.
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Summary: "Wet" wears thin
Review: Rucker's "Wetware" is one of those books that confirms everything bad that some people believe about Science Fiction. Aside from a rushed pace and the overused "robotic messiah" plotline, the most frusturating thing about Wetware is the fact that you can't avoid its prevalent sexism. Women exist either as prostitutes for drug dealers or temporary carriers for robot/human hybrids. In such an environment it takes a strong author to create sympathies for a character, but here all we are left with is a depressing vision of all the characters as scum without the vitality of prose that Gibson or Stephenson manage to portray even their most unsympathetic character with.
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Summary: exciting science fiction thrill ride
Review: Rudy Rucker's Wetware is a must read for any science fiction enthusiast. Rucker paints a very interesting view of the future where humans and robots have colonized the moon. After being exiled from Earth, robots created cities on the moon only to be again kicked out by humans. The robots, called boppers, now live beneath the moon's surface planning their revenge. When the boppers decide to re-colonize the earth through artificially impregnating a human woman, the story begins to take wild twists and turns. Like the rest of the book, Rucker does not disappoint his readers with the story's conclusion. Although Rucker adds a lot of his own jargon to the story, it is an easy read. Reading this book has turned me on to Rucker's other books in his four-part series and on to science fiction literature in general. Wetware appeals to a wide variety of people from the science fiction aficionado to the average reader.
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