The Ware Tetralogy
(Rudy Rucker, 1982-2000)
“For me, the best thing about Cyberpunk is that it taught me how to enjoy shopping malls, which used to terrify me. Now I just imagine the whole thing is two miles below the moon’s surface, and that half the people’s right-brains have been eaten by roboticized steel rats. And suddenly it’s interesting again.”
Rudy Rucker
Rucker, a mathematician, wrote the Ware novels starting in 1981 at the ouset of the Cyberpunk movement and finished at the dawn of the third millennium.
It is heady and scary stuff, Rucker is keen on going where most SF writers are afraid to go, social and literary taboos are shattered at neck breaking speed and we are left breathless at the virtuosity of the prose. Just consider Rucker's synopsis of the four novels:
''Software, where rebel robots bring immortality to their human creator by eating his brain. Wetware, the robots decide to start building people—and people get strung out on an insane new drug called Merge. Freeware, the robots have evolved into soft plastic slugs called Moldies—and some human “Cheeseballs” want to have sex with them. The action redoubles when aliens begin arriving in the form of cosmic rays. Realware, the humans and robots find a wormhole with god inside, learn the art of direct matter control, get wacked out as usual—and find true love.''
https://archive.org/details/ware_tetralogy

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