Software/Wetware (Magill’s Guide to Science Fiction and Fantasy Literature)
At a glance:
- Author: Rudy Rucker
- First Published: 1982
- Type of Work: Novels
- Type of Plot: Science fiction—cyberpunk
- Time of Work: 2020 and 2030-2031
- Setting: Florida, Kentucky, and the Moon
- Genres: Long fiction, Science fiction
- Subjects: Immortality, Future, Twenty-first century, Florida, Bioengineering or biotechnology, Consciousness, Kentucky, Robots or robotics, Moon or moons, Evolution
- Locales: Kentucky, Florida, Moon
The Plot
Software and Wetware were written separately. Software begins in Florida, among the pheezers (an abbreviation of “freaky geezers,” a term for elderly people who still retain the culture of the 1960’s). One pheezer, Cobb Anderson, is the man who taught the robots (now known as “boppers”) how to evolve free will by forcing them to reconstitute themselves every ten months, subjecting themselves to cosmic rays to induce mutations. Having attained free will, the boppers rebelled and have been exiled to the Moon.
Cobb is met by a bopper...
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