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Cover art: Raquel Jaramillo
Blurb: “The award-winning author of the extreme classics Software and Wetware is an irrepressible mad scientist, bravely meddling in the outrageous and heretical. The Godfather of Cyberpunk, he has given shape and substance to a uniquely hip SF sub-genre. His scientific fabulation is funny, cutting edge and deeply informed-no writer alive puts it all together like Rudy Rucker.
FREEWARE
Artificial life forms made of soft plastic and gene-tweaked molds and algae, moldies are evolved robots in the year 2053-anatomically inventive and universally despised. In a sleazy, low-rent future, sexual fraternization with moldies is strictly taboo—a societal sin that is of no concern whatsoever to Randy Karl Tucker.
A Kentucky boy who has seriously strayed from the Heritagist religion's stern teachings about the evils of artificial life, Randy feels a definite something for Monique, moldie bookkeeper and maid at the Clearlight Terrace Court Motel. But Monique's sudden and inexplicable abduction from the planet-coupled with unsettling revelations about Randy's own dubious origins-is dragging the degenerate flesher and all those around him into an ugly, conspiratorial mess...even as it pulls an unsuspecting humanity ever-closer to a stunning encounter with intergalactic intelligence.”