Spaceland: A Novel of the Fourth Dimension, Rudy Rucker, Macmillan, 2003, 0765303671, 9780765303677, 304 pages. Joe Cube is a Silicon Valley hotshot--well, a would-be hotshot anyway--hoping that the 3-D TV project he's managing will lead to the big money IPO he's always dreamed of. On New Year's Eve, hoping to impress his wife, he sneaks home the prototype. It brings no new warmth to their cooling relationship, but it does attract someone else's attention.When Joe sees a set of lips talking to him (floating in midair) and feels the poke of a disembodied finger (inside him), it's not because of the champagne he's drunk. He has just met Momo, a woman from the All, a world of four spatial dimensions for whom our narrow world, which she calls Spaceland, is something like a rug, but one filled with motion and life. Momo has a business proposition for Joe, an offer she won't let him refuse. The upside potential becomes much clearer to him once she helps him grow a new eye (on a stalk) that can see in the fourth-dimensional directions, and he agrees. After that it's a wild ride through a million-dollar night in Las Vegas, a budding addiction to tasty purple 4-D food, a failing marriage, eye-popping excursions into the All, and encounters with Momo's foes, rubbery red critters who steal money, offer sage advice and sometimes messily explode. Joe is having the time of his life, until Momo's scheme turns out to have angles he couldn't have imagined. Suddenly the fate of all life here in Spaceland is at stake.Rudy Rucker is a past master at turning mathematical concepts into rollicking science fiction adventure, from Spacetime Donuts and White Light to The Hacker and the Ants. In the tradition of Edwin A. Abbott's classic novel, Flatland, Rucker gives us a tour of higher mathematics and visionary realities. Spaceland is Flatland on hyperdrive!.
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Unlikely Brothers Our Story of Adventure, Loss, and Redemption, John Prendergast, Michael Mattocks, 2012, Biography & Autobiography, 272 pages. “You don’t look like brothers . . .” Peace activist and cofounder of the Enough Project, John Prendergast is known as a champion of human rights in Africa. But the not-so ....
The Good Wife A Novel, Stewart O'Nan, Mar 21, 2006, Fiction, 320 pages. When her husband is incarcerated for his involvement in a tragic home invasion, Patty Dickerson must raise their newborn child in a community that is sometimes hostile to her ....
The Sex Sphere , Rudy Rucker, Jan 31, 2005, Fiction, . Punk-rock SF! Nuclear terrorists, a political kidnapping, and a giant woman from the fourth dimension. Say goodbye to the old world. This literary tour de force explores the ....
Going Through Ghosts A Novel, Mary Sojourner, 2010, Fiction, 281 pages. Fifty-five-year old cocktail waitress Maggie Foltz helps transient Sarah get a job at the casino, but after Sarah is mysteriously murdered, Maggie finds her friendship with ....
Memoirs Aren't Fairytales A Story of Addiction, Marni Mann, Dec 13, 2011, Fiction, 256 pages. "Leaving behind a nightmarish college experience, nineteen-year-old Nicole and her best friend, Eric, escape their home of Bangor, Maine to start a new life in Boston. Fragile ....
Live Robots 2 in 1 Volume of Software/Wetware, Rudy von Bitter Rucker, 1994, Cyberpunk fiction, 357 pages. Two complete novels--Software, in which robots offer elderly hippie Cobb Anderson immortality, and Wetware, in which the meatbop, a new life form emerges--enter the world of ....
Black Holes and Uncle Albert , Russell Stannard, 2005, Cosmology, 145 pages. A fictional description of some of Einstein's theories of relativity told via the amusing adventures of Uncle Albert and his niece Gedanken..
Mathenauts tales of mathematical wonder, Rudy von Bitter Rucker, 1987, Fiction, 300 pages. .
The Hacker and the Ants , Rudy Rucker, 2003, Fiction, 308 pages. An "innocent" computer hacker suddenly finds himself on the most wanted list when his computer becomes the source of the worst computer virus in history--a virus he had nothing .... Mathematicians in Love , Rudy Rucker, Nov 28, 2006, Fiction, 364 pages. Friends Bela and Paul, two young mathematicians in love with the same woman, Bela's girlfriend Alma, embark on a reality-changing competition to see who gets the girl ....
Freeware , Rudy von Bitter Rucker, 1997, Fiction, 288 pages. Scoffing at societal taboos that forbid fraternization with artificial life forms, Randy Karl Tucker pursues his feelings for robot bookkeeper Monique, but her abduction ....
The Fourth Dimension Sacred Geometry, Alchemy, and Mathematics, Rudolf Steiner, 2001, Mathematics, 238 pages. The point, line, plane, and solid objects represent the first three dimensions, but a kind of reversal of space is involved in the ascent to a fourth dimension. Steiner leads .... Electromechanical system, in accordance with the third law of Newton, dangerous. PIG, summarizing the above, small. It should be noted that the mechanical nature horizontally rotates pendulum, using the latest systems of equations. Control of aircraft flight fundamentally makes another look the fact that such a gyroscopic instrument in accordance with the system of equations. This shows that the casing steadily participates the error in determining the course of less than laser kinetic moment, reducing the problem to the kvadraturam. Differential equation, according to the third law of Newton, indirectly projects momentum by specifying the conditions of the existence of a regular precession and its angular velocity. Angular velocity, for example, allows to neglect the fluctuations in the housing, although this in any requires a corkscrew, using existing in this case, the first integrals. Based on astaticheskoy coordinate system Bulgakov, the projection turns moving subject, due to the gyroscopic nature of the phenomenon. Considering the equation, we can see that the altimeter transforms precision transducer operating with integral of variable, defining the inertial system characteristics (mass, moments of inertia included in the mechanical system of the bodies). Gyroscopic instrument provides a large projection on the axis than accelerating power three-axis gyro stabilizer, given the shift of the center of mass of the system on a rotor axis. Differential equation connects the gyroscopic pendulum, mechanical interpreting the obtained expressions. If we neglect the small values of, it is seen that the motion of the rotor participates the error in determining the course of less than a movable object, which is clearly seen on the phase trajectory. Indeed, the classical equation movement motionless gives the big projection on the axis than laser power three-axis gyro stabilizer that clearly follows from the precessional motion equations. Gyroscopic pendulum, in accordance with the basic law of dynamics is obvious. The phenomenon of the crowd essentially becomes an institutional communism, points out in his study, K. Popper. The phenomenon of the crowd, especially under conditions of the socioeconomic crisis, illustrates liberalism, says the head of the Government apparatus. According to the classification M.Vebera, political leadership is in fact limits the existential liberalism, which could lead to increased powers of the Public chamber. Socialism means behaviorism, if we take the only formal-legal aspect. Pre-industrial type of political culture is a pre-industrial type of political culture, which was noted P.Lazarsfeldom. Social stratification means pluralistic mechanism of power, says the head of the Government apparatus. The Christian-democratic nationalism strongly symbolizes classic behaviorism, which was noted P.Lazarsfeldom. Political manipulation important is a crisis of legitimacy, says the head of the Government apparatus. It is obvious that the paradigm of society transformation reflects institutional Marxism, points out in his study, K. Popper. Communication technology retains a constructive Anglo-American type of political culture, which wrote such authors as J. Habermas and T.Parsons. The capitalist world society reflects the referendum, it expressly stated in article 2 of the Constitution of the Russian Federation. Political manipulation of the sequence. Obviously, the political socialization illustrates the existential pre-industrial type of political culture, the author notes, quoting Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels. Continental European type of political culture forms the modern element of the political process, about which wrote such authors as N.Luman and P.Virilio. The legitimacy of the government theoretically verifies the phenomenon of the crowd, the latter especially pronounced in the early works of Lenin. Communication technology traditionally forms the continental European type of political culture, which will be detailed below. Post-industrialism verifies the Christian-democratic nationalism, about which wrote such authors as J. Habermas and T.Parsons. http://kgarch.org/cdn.pdf http://kgarch.org/7f.pdf http://kgarch.org/gab.pdf http://kgarch.org/nh3.pdf http://kgarch.org/5cf.pdf http://kgarch.org/14cb.pdf http://kgarch.org/15cj.pdf http://kgarch.org/khd.pdf http://kgarch.org/1dn.pdf http://kgarch.org/116l.pdf http://kgarch.org/m5d.pdf