Rucker's Postsingular is a free, CC download!

Rudy Rucker has posted his kick-ass, weird-ass post-cyberpunk novel Postsingular to the net as a free, Creative Commons-licensed download. I reviewed Postsingular when it came out earlier this month:

In Postsingular, a mad scientist creates a race of nants -- nanites -- that digest the planet and turn it into a computational simulation of Earth, called Vearth. However, an autistic child memorizes a long string of numbers that poisons the nants and causes them to reverse themselves (luckily, they're engaged in reversible computation) and put the planet back. That's the setup.
Some time later, another race of benign nanos are released on the earth, the Orphids. Orphids are mezzoscale computers that organize themselves into an intelligent global network, tapping into every human brain and giving people access to outboard cognition facilities, so that anyone can drop out, tune in, and become hyperintelligent. The orphidnetters are haunted by spooks from a parallel dimension, who seek to prevent them from using the smarts of the orphidnet to develop interdimensional travel.

This is one of the most fun, strangest, most thought-provoking sf novels I've read, and it's fantastic to have it show up on the net, ready to be copied and shared. Link

Discussion

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#1 posted by Comstock , November 2, 2007 4:00 AM

What?

#2 posted by Teresa Nielsen Hayden / Moderator

, November 2, 2007 7:24 AM

How what? What kind what?

#3 posted by Chan Lee Meng , November 2, 2007 8:29 AM

Looks like it is a continuation / expansion of his 2006 story "Chu and the Nants" which I found very entertaining. Am looking forward to reading "Postsingular".

#4 posted by vorpalsword , November 2, 2007 6:47 PM

I started reading it this morning... It's excellent.

#5 posted by Hadrien , November 5, 2007 7:34 AM

For those of you using e-ink devices, it's available on Feedbooks: http://www.feedbooks.com/discover/view_book/1918

Also available in .epub, the new standard for e-books (http://www.idpf.org/).

Just added this book on my Sony PRS-500, sounds fun and there's a sequel coming soon (2008).