A 60s college student learns he's a saucer alien in this hilariously
intelligent tale of adolescent angst and romance from Rudy Rucker.
Conrad Bunger is one of those wild guys you think won't make it to legal
drinking age. But, thanks to the strange powers he manifests in times of
crisis--he can change his face, shrink to the size of a thumb, fly
around the Eiffel tower, and hand out joints to everyone at the student
assembly--not even the most ghastly mishaps interrupt his quest for
visions, beer, and love.
Gradually, Conrad awakens to his true identity as an energy being from
outer space. As if he hadn't suspected it all along. Now, as he faces
his true nature, he learns his ordained purpose: to proceed incognito
and to reach the ultimate prize--the Secret of Life.
Problem is, he's having too much fun to keep it together. Even with the
government out to kill him . . .
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.
