The Ware Tetralogy eBook Rudy Rucker William Gibson
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It starts with Software, where rebel robots bring immortality to their human creator by eating his brain. Software won the first Philip K. Dick Award. In Wetware, the robots decide to start building people—and people get strung out on an insane new drug called merge. This cyberpunk classic garnered a second Philip K. Dick award. By Freeware, the robots have evolved into soft plastic slugs called moldies—and some human “cheeseballs” want to have sex with them. The action redoubles when aliens begin arriving in the form of cosmic rays. And with Realware, the humans and robots reach a higher plateau. Includes an introduction by William Gibson.
The Ware Tetralogy eBook Rudy Rucker William Gibson
This is one of the most profoundly weird things I have ever read, and I mean that in the best way. For me, the beginning of each book was slow, but worth sticking to for the moment halfway through when it all picks up speed and takes flight into the truly bizarre and yet utterly inevitable. I kept setting it aside because it was so long (and the beginnings would drag so much for me -- and I had a very difficult time with the dialects at first) and then being drawn back to it like a magnet. Unlike many reviewers, I liked the fourth book quite a bit and found it easier going than the first three, but I am not usually much of a sci-fi reader so my tastes are probably a bit different from most readers of "Ware." There are a lot of drugs and sex, but I didn't read that as trying to be "edgy" for the shock value alone (which I hate); I read it more as a commentary on Baby Boomers getting older (and how funny it would be if they were living the 60s when they WERE in their 60s), a commentary on poverty and cultural decline and escapism, and a commentary on how every new technology gets used for sex, violence, and altered mental states before just about anything else.I will probably read this again after letting it percolate in my brain a while. SO. PROFOUNDLY. WEIRD.
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The Ware Tetralogy eBook Rudy Rucker William Gibson Reviews
Edgy, nuts, and thoroughly entertaining - that's the Ware Tetralogy. If Kerouac wrote sci fi after way too many whiskies and reefers, this is what it might have turned out like. The series blends dimensional mathematics and physics with crazed counterculture hedonism and throws some truly innovative and bizarre ideas about consciousness and mortality out there.
There are caveats; the first two books are amazing, the third lots of fun, but the fourth is a real drag, sadly. Realware is a totally unnecessary addition that meanders and dawdles along without the frenetic pace or abstract sense of purpose of the first three books. On top of that, Rucker's writing style isn't that developed - and while the beat-style babble rides well alongside his earlier plots and themes, without anything to anchor it in Realware, the final instalment feels like it's written for a high school creative writing assignment.
My advice read the first three, enjoy the hell out of them, and stop at the end of Freeware.
I wouldn't recommend any of these novels to anyone who doesn't like sci-fi. This is not a cross-over book with wide appeal. If you like sci-fi and you like Phillip K. Dick, read these now.
That being said, I'd give the first two books of the series 4 stars, 3 stars for the third book and two for the last one. I probably should have stopped after the second book.
The books are full of ideas which are logically derived from their starting premise (e.g. Artificial intelligence, the fact that human identity is just information, the future of narcotics and the thin line between them and other entertainment, etc.) - the arguments are reasonable and interesting to consider. As Rucker acknowledges, some of these ideas are quite common in sci-if now (that makes them less impactful for a reader today) but they weren't when he wrote them. The most fun you get out of these books is from the quirky speculations Rucker makes on the impact of certain technologies...it is also refreshing that the books are neither dystopian nor utopian.
The plot lines are well constructed and compelling, for the most part. They do tend to have that "just so" element where all loose ends are neatly tied up at the end of each novel; you can almost feel when Rucker realizes he's running out of time in the book and begins resolving subplots by the dozen in a single chapter.
The characters have a similar problem most of them are interesting and quirky, but most of them can be summarized in a few sentences with little loss of information. Characters are driven by the plot, not the other way around. Similarly, the prose is functional with relatively little beauty. The dialogues are pretty cartoonish, and I am not referring to the futuristic slang (actually very cool) but to the underlying thoughts being conveyed.
All these issues make these books something less than a classic for me. However, they were a heck of a lot of fun to read (except at the end) so no regrets.
I highly recommend the Ware series to anyone who likes finding sci-fi with a genuinely different take on the future. The Ware series focuses on the rise and evolution of artificial intelligences side-by-side with humans. The books explore the differences between biological intelligences and electronic ones and asks the question - is there a difference at all? You'll encounter human minds copied into software that runs in robotic bodies, artificial intelligences biologically encoded into DNA and born into human bodies and even more.
The books in this series were written in 1982, 1988, 1997 and 2000 and the earlier ones still hold up quite well. Rucker's style is humorous (sometimes darkly so), fun and generally fast-paced. If there's a downside, it's an over-use of future slang that occasionally interrupts the flow of the story as you try to figure out what a new word means (or how a normal word is being used). This is only a minor quibble, however, and overall the quality is excellent. The characters are varied, unusual and have depth that's often lacking. Even characters that only have minor roles are very different and well-drawn.
Finally, this collection is a great value - the print length is 700+ pages, so unlike all too many "novels" of roughly 100-200 pages that they try to sell for $6, you're getting a ton of great reading for your money.
This is one of the most profoundly weird things I have ever read, and I mean that in the best way. For me, the beginning of each book was slow, but worth sticking to for the moment halfway through when it all picks up speed and takes flight into the truly bizarre and yet utterly inevitable. I kept setting it aside because it was so long (and the beginnings would drag so much for me -- and I had a very difficult time with the dialects at first) and then being drawn back to it like a magnet. Unlike many reviewers, I liked the fourth book quite a bit and found it easier going than the first three, but I am not usually much of a sci-fi reader so my tastes are probably a bit different from most readers of "Ware." There are a lot of drugs and sex, but I didn't read that as trying to be "edgy" for the shock value alone (which I hate); I read it more as a commentary on Baby Boomers getting older (and how funny it would be if they were living the 60s when they WERE in their 60s), a commentary on poverty and cultural decline and escapism, and a commentary on how every new technology gets used for sex, violence, and altered mental states before just about anything else.
I will probably read this again after letting it percolate in my brain a while. SO. PROFOUNDLY. WEIRD.
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