An artist in a wild biotech future confronts aliens from another
dimension--and finds a new way to get high--in this rollicking,
psychedelic SF novel from Rudy Rucker.
Biotechnology has replaced machines, and genetic modification is
commonplace. At the forefront of this revolutionary change is artist Zad
Plant, who works with living paint, lives in a talking home grown from
plants, gets around on a giant roadspider, and has a sentient
rat--complete with Kentucky accent--as a sidekick. Unfortunately for
Zad, his career's on the skids, and his wife Jane has thrown him out.
Enter qwet--quantum wetware--that changes Zad, making him cosmically
high and giving him telepathy, and soon enough, a psychedelic revolution
begins. Yet when mouths begin appearing in midair, eating people, Zad
and Jane must travel through a wormhole to learn how to save their
world. . . .
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.
