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An omnibus of Rudy Rucker's groundbreaking series <Software, Wetware, Freeware, and Realware>, with an introduction by William Gibson, author of Neuromancer.

Books in This Collection

  1. Software

    by Rudy Rucker (Author)

    It was Cobb Anderson who built the"boppers"--the first robots with real brains. Now, in 2020, Cobb is just another aged "pheezer" with a bad heart, drinking and grooving on the old tunes in Florida retirement hell. His "bops" have come a long...

  2. Wetware

    by Rudy Rucker (Author)

    In 2030, bopper robots in their lunar refuge have founds a way to infuse DNA wetware with their own software code. The result is a new lifeform: the meatbop. Fair is fair, after all. Humans built the boppers, now bops are building humans. ....

  3. Freeware

    by Rudy Rucker (Author)

    Rudy Rucker has seen the future. . .and it is extreme. The Godfather of cyberpunk--a mad scientist bravely meddling in the outrageous and heretical--Rucker created Bopper Robots, who rebelled against human society in his award-winning classic ...

  4. Realware

    by Rudy Rucker (Author)

    It's 2054...and Phil Gottner doesn't know where his life is.His girlfriend is hooked on merge, a drug used in "bacteria-style" sex. His father has just been swallowed up by a hyperspatial anomaly that materialized from a piece of art. And at...

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  • The Moon: Originally the Boppers' base, they evolved into Moldies who still inhabit the surface along with fleshers.

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Cobb Anderson would have held out longer, but you don't see dolphins everyday.

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This book is in Ware Tetralogy. (standard series)

Authors & Contributors edit see section history

  1. Rudy Rucker (Author)

Other Contributors:

  1. William Gibson (Introduction)

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Original Language: English
Publisher: Prime Books
Country: USA
Publication Date: June 1, 2010
ISBN: 1607012111
Page Count: 704

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