Description: Praise for Mathematicians in Love "Full of quirky, charming life-forms human and otherwise and ruled by a god who's the female jellyfish-creator of Earth . . . Rucker's wild characters, off-the-wall situations, and wicked political riffs prove that writing SF spoofs, like Bela's rock music avocation, 'beats the hell out of publishing a math paper.'" -- Publishers Weekly "May well be Rudy Rucker's best novel-- funny, wise, fast, and inventive ." -- Gregory Benford, author of Timescape and The Galactic Center Saga "In Mathematicians in Love Rucker has created a love story wrapped up in a cross-cultural mystery tour that could only have happened inside the mind of a crazy mathematician . Buy a ticket. It's well worth the price." -- SFRevu " Percolates with off-the-wall characters and trippy extra-dimensional shenanigans . Nobody writes math-based science fiction like Rudy Rucker does . . . A definite high point in his singular writing career." -- San Francisco Chronicle " All the pleasures of a Rucker novel come forth abundantly : playfully weird higher physics and math; bizarre conceptual psychedelia; distinctively Californian counter-cultural comedy; zany romance; doppelgangers; generally happy endings . . . Mathematicians in Love is an engaging and entertaining book, light yet thought-provoking, funny yet of some gravity." -- Locus Praise for Rudy Rucker " Rudy Rucker should be declared a National Treasure of American Science Fiction. Someone simultaneously channeling Kurt Gdel and Lenny Bruce might start to approximate full-on Ruckerian warp-space, but without the sweet, human, splendidly goofy Rudy-ness at the core of the singularity." --William Gibson "Rucker's writing is great like the Ramones are great: a genre stripped to its essence, attitude up the wazoo, and cartoon sentiments that reek of identifiable lives and issues. Wild math you can get elsewhere, but no one does the cyber version of beatnik glory quite like Rucker. " -- New York Review of Science Fiction "For some two decades now, since the publication of his first novel, White Light , Rucker has combined an easygoing, trippy style influenced by the Beats with a deep engagement with knotty (or 'gnarly,' to employ one of his favorite terms) intellectual conceits, based mainly in mathematics. In the typical Rucker novel, likably eccentric characters --who run the gamut from brilliant to near-certifiable--encounter aspects of the universe that confirm that life is weirder than we can imagine. " -- The Washington Post "Rudy Rucker is the most consistently brilliant imagination working in SF today. " -- Charles Stross, author of The Laundry Files "Reading a Rudy Rucker book is like finding Poe, Kerouac, Lewis Carroll, and Philip K. Dick parked on your driveway in a topless '57 Caddy . . . and telling you they're taking you for a RIDE. The funniest science fiction author around. " -- Sci-Fi Universe "Rucker [gives you] more ideas per chapter than most authors use in an entire novel. " -- San Francisco Chronicle

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