Author Rudy Rucker offers a one-of-a-kind "history" of the future in
this staggeringly inventive metafictional novel involving UFOs and time
travel.
Frank Shook, who lives in the hills of California outside Silicon
Valley, is a UFO abductee, communicating with extraterrestrial beings
who take him on wild flying saucer rides, zig-zagging through time to
give Frank vivid looks into the future of humanity.
Frank's bizarre claims are intriguing to author Rudy Rucker, who agrees
to transcribe Frank's notes from his journeys. The result? A
fascinating, and illuminating account of the forthcoming evolution of
humankind. From telepathy to time travel to transhumanity, from hardware
to software to wetware, Saucer Wisdom, spanning two millennia, is a
profoundly creative work of truly speculative meta-fiction, a catalog of
the future as only Rudy Rucker (the award-winning real-life author, that
is) could tell it.
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.
