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Work InformationHylozoic by Rudy Rucker (2009)
  
None No current Talk conversations about this book.   noiseislife | Aug 13, 2023 |  Hylozoism is an ancient Greek doctrine that held that all matter had life. Gaia is a goddess that personifies the Earth and everything it contains as a single, unified organism. What the Greeks did not add to the picture was that it was all the result of human evolution and nanotechnology. For that, you need Rudy Rucker and the singularity that makes everything sentient and telepathic. Rucker’s Gaia “presented herself as fat Earth globe wearing a cartoon face.” Hylozoic begins with JayJay and Thuy on their honeymoon in a world in which privacy is no longer possible and where if you trip over a rock, it will tell you that you should watch your step, and if you are using a rock to build a wall, it will tell you what rock it would like to cuddle up with. JayJay doesn’t mind. He likes communing with nature as, Rucker tells us in his lengthy writing notes (Notes for Crazy Mathematicians (rudyrucker.com)), he is “open to paracomputation.” But the Hylozoic age does not stay halcyon for very long. The singularity, it seems, has brought us to the attention of highly evolved aliens from other stars, not all of whom are friendly. There are some birdlike creatures that say they got rid of all the nasty furries in their biosphere millennia ago and would like to do the same for Gaia. Then some dimensional time travel happens, and JayJay and his friends help Hieronymus Bosch realize his visions, which may or may not be those we find in our museums. 4 postsingular stars. (  ) Tom-e | Feb 18, 2022 |  )1  ben_h | Apr 6, 2011 | no reviews | add a review
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After the Singularity, everyone and everything is sentient and telepathic. Aliens notice and invade Earth. In Rucker's last novel, Postsingular, the Singularity happened and life on Earth was transformed by the awakening of all matter into consciousness and into telepathic communication. The most intimate moments of your life can be experienced by anyone who cares to pay attention, or by hundreds of thousands of anyones if you are one of the Founders who helped create the Singularity.The small bunch of Founders, including young newlyweds Thuy, a hypertext novelist, and Jayjay, a gamer and brain-enhancement addict, are living a popular, live-action media life. But now alien races that have already gone through this transformation notice Earth for the first time, and begin to arrive to exploit both the new environment and any available humans. Some of them are real estate developers, some are slavers, and some just want to help. But how to tell the difference? Someone has to save humanity from the alien invasions, and it might as well be reality media stars Thuy and Jayjay.At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied. No library descriptions found. |
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