This is the second book in the Rucker's Ware Tetralogy.
What is wetware? I think I know, but I am not sure how to explain it. A biological computer perhaps?
In any case, in this book, the robots (boppers) make a sort of human-bopper hybrid. The humans, with a few exceptions, are not amused and take extreme action. This includes killing the hybrids and infecting the boppers with a mold.
This mold appears to shut down the boppers, but it also seems to work some kind of transformation on them as well. Where will this lead? Maybe the third book will tell us.
The second book brings back many characters that we met in the first book and tells about a very weird drug called merge. Merge makes people sort of melt.
I would give this book four and not five stars out of five, because it is kind of weird. But, it is entertaining and provides much food for thought. As to the latter, where is the line between life and machine? Not an easy question to answer as this book illustrates. But, then, maybe the questions is not as important as it seems at first. Yes, it is one of those kind of things. :)
The book may also make readers wonder about life and death. As in, what is the meaning of each. It does provide an inkling of answers perhaps.
I look forward to reading book three - and then four.
See what you think.
What is wetware? I think I know, but I am not sure how to explain it. A biological computer perhaps?
In any case, in this book, the robots (boppers) make a sort of human-bopper hybrid. The humans, with a few exceptions, are not amused and take extreme action. This includes killing the hybrids and infecting the boppers with a mold.
This mold appears to shut down the boppers, but it also seems to work some kind of transformation on them as well. Where will this lead? Maybe the third book will tell us.
The second book brings back many characters that we met in the first book and tells about a very weird drug called merge. Merge makes people sort of melt.
I would give this book four and not five stars out of five, because it is kind of weird. But, it is entertaining and provides much food for thought. As to the latter, where is the line between life and machine? Not an easy question to answer as this book illustrates. But, then, maybe the questions is not as important as it seems at first. Yes, it is one of those kind of things. :)
The book may also make readers wonder about life and death. As in, what is the meaning of each. It does provide an inkling of answers perhaps.
I look forward to reading book three - and then four.
See what you think.
