by Rudy Rucker
“Filled with nicely drawn characters, a good story line and an engaging look at the inhabitants of a weird space-time continuum, Silicon Valley, Spaceland is a must read for geeks of all dimensions.”
—SFRevu.com
“As always, Rucker laces his hard science with ample doses of humor to create an SF adventure for the dot-com generation.”
—Library Journal
“Books on higher dimensions with such beauty, breadth, and insight are rare. Dr. Rucker’s Spaceland is chock-full of mind-boggling images and ideas. The eclectic Rucker is both a mathematician and science-fiction guru, and with the cold logic of the one and the inspired vision of the other, he covers an array of topics sure to stimulate your imagination and sense of wonder at the incredible vastness of our mathematical universe.”
—Clifford Pickover, author of Surfing Through Hyperspace
Books by Rudy Rucker
Novels
As Above, So Below: A Novel of Pieter Bruegel
(forthcoming from Tor)
Spaceland (from Tor)
Realware
Freeware
The Hacker and the Ants
The Hollow Earth
Wetware
The Secret of Life
Master of Space and Time
The Sex Sphere
Software
White Light
Spacetime Donuts
Nonfiction
Saucer Wisdom (from Tor)
All the Visions
Mind Tools
The Fourth Dimension
lnfinity and the Mind
Geometry, Relativity and the Fourth Dimension
Collections
Gnarl!
Seek!
Transreal!
The Fifty-Seventh Franz Kafka
This is a work of fiction. All the characters and events portrayed in this novel are either fictitious or are used fictitiously.
SPACELAND
Copyright © 2002 by Rudy Rucker
All rights reserved, including the right to reproduce this book, or portions thereof, in any form.
Edited by David G. Hartwell
http://www.mathes.sjsu.edu/faculty/rucker/spaceland.htm
A Tor Book
Published by Tom Doherty Associates, LLC
175 Fifth Avenue
New York, NY 10010
www.tor-forge.com
Tor@ is a registered trademark of Tom Doherty Associates, LLC.
Illustrations by Taral Wayne
Book design by Jane Adele Regina
eISBN 9781429980074
First eBook Edition : April 2011
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Rucker, Rudy v. B. (Rudy von Bitter).
Spaceland / Rudy Rucker.
p. cm.
“A Tom Doherty Associates book.”
ISBN 0-765-30366-3 (hc)
ISBN 0-765-30367-1 (pbk)
1. Computer industry—Employees—Fiction. 2. Fourth dimension—Fiction. I. Title.
PS3568.U298 S73 2002
813’.54—dc21
2001059661