Spaceland: A Novel of the Fourth Dimension (Tom Doherty Associates Books)

Joe Cube is a Silicon Valley hotshot--well a would-be hotshot anyway--hoping that the 3-D TV project hes managing will lead to the big money IPO hes always dreamed of. On New Years Eve hoping to impress his wife he sneaks home the prototype. It brings no new warmth to their cooling relationship but it does attract someone elses attention.. When Joe sees a set of lips talking to him (floating in midair) and feels the poke of a disembodied finger (inside him) its not because of the champagne hes drunk. He has just met Momo a woman from the All a world of four spatial dimensions for whom our narrow world which she calls Spaceland is something like a rug but one filled with motion and life. Momo has a business proposition for Joe an offer she wont let him refuse. The upside potential becomes much clearer to him once she helps him grow a new eye (on a stalk) that can see in the fourth-dimensional directions and he agrees.. After that its a wild ride through a million-dollar night in Las Vegas a budding addiction to tasty purple 4-D food a failing marriage eye-popping excursions into the All and encounters with Momos foes rubbery red critters who steal money offer sage advice and sometimes messily explode. Joe is having the time of his life until Momos scheme turns out to have angles he couldnt have imagined. Suddenly the fate of all life here in Spaceland is at stake.. Rudy Rucker is a past master at turning mathematical concepts into rollicking science fiction adventure from Spacetime Donuts and White Light to The Hacker and the Ants. In the tradition of Edwin A. Abbotts classic novel Flatland Rucker gives us a tour of higher mathematics and visionary realities. Spaceland is Flatland on hyperdrive!