One of the Barnes & Noble Sci-Fi & Fantasy Blog's Best of May 2019!
One of The Verge's 10 New Science Fiction and Fantasy Books to Check
Out in May!
In his first new novel since 2013, cyberpunk pioneer Rudy Rucker offers
his own smart, hilarious, and uniquely gnarly science fiction version of
the classic road-trip story.
When a seemingly-innocent trumpet solo somehow opens a transdimensional
connection to Mappyworld, a parallel universe containing a single,
endless plain divided by ridges into basin-like worlds, three California
teens find themselves taken on a million mile road trip across a
landscape of alien civilizations in a beat-up, purple 80s wagon . . .
with a dark-energy motor, graphene tires and quantum shocks, of course.
Their goal? To stop carnivorous flying saucers from invading Earth. And,
just maybe, to find love along the way.
Million Mile Road Trip is a phantasmagoric roller-coaster ride--mind
warpingly smart and wildly funny, with a warmly beating heart.
Night Shade Books' ten-volume series with Rudy Rucker collects nine of
the brilliantly weird novels for which the mathematician-turned-author
is known, as well as a tenth, never-before-published book, Million Mile
Road Trip. We're proud to collect in one place so much of the work of
this influential figure in the early cyberpunk scene, and to share
Rucker's fascinating, unique worldview with an entirely new generation
of readers.
