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Posted 2016-03-22 10:12 AM (#13051 - in reply to #12872)
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Location: Austin, Tx		Finished Wetware by Rudy Rucker last weekend. While it wasn't as good as Software it was still a worthy read and a must-read for anyone exploring cyberpunk. It may not have hackers and cyberspace (which is not to say that it is not an exploration of technology, but not one like Neuromancer or Synners), but in so many things it explores the rejection of convention and rules. Rucker is good at showing the reader ways in which their thinking is not the only way. For example, we have a taboo against cannibalism, but to a robot, that's survival of the fittest, taking another's parts and using them as your own (or another's chemical fuel i.e. meat). It does not mean that they live a Mad Max existence, but it does inform their society in a lot of ways.

My caution to the casual reader of Rucker would be that he is a writer of ideas, which he will throw at you one after the other (any one of which could be a novel in itself), but is not good at characters. He also tends toward stream-of-consciousness type prose, like he was more concerned that you get a certain feeling around an event than that he be clear about exactly what is happening.

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