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Product Description: Felix Rayman spends the day teaching indifferent students, pondering his theories on infinity, and daydreaming. When his dreams finally separate him from his physical body, Felix plunges headfirst into a multidimensional universe beyond the limits of space and time — the place of White Light...read more
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9780441885640 | Ace Books, November 1, 1980, cover price $2.25 | About this edition: Felix Rayman spends the day teaching indifferent students, pondering his theories on infinity, and daydreaming.
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9780380701773 | Reissue edition (Avon Books, April 1, 1997), cover price $6.99 | About this edition: In the year 2020, elderly hippie Cobb Anderson constructs intelligent robots who take control of the moon and offer Cobb a change at immortality
9780441774081 | Ace Books, January 1, 1982, cover price $2.25 | About this edition: It was Cobb Anderson who built the "boppers"--the first robots with real brains.
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9783764330347 | Birkhauser, May 1, 1982, cover price $26.95 | About this edition: An examination of the mathematical, physical, and philosophical aspects of infinity includes discussions of set theory, the theorems of the mathematician, Kurt Godel, and the concepts of space and time
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9780553255317 | Reissue edition (Bantam Books, December 1, 1983), cover price $6.50 | About this edition: A study of infinity in all its forms and its implications for the human mind.
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9780441235162 | Ace Books, November 1, 1982, cover price $2.50 | About this edition: Mass market paperback.
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A noted mathematician explores the metaphysical areas of modern physics and the fourth dimension to explain the history, geometry, and mysticism of a higher reality
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9780395344200 | Houghton Mifflin, September 1, 1984, cover price $17.95 | About this edition: A noted mathematician explores the metaphysical areas of modern physics and the fourth dimension to explain the history, geometry, and mysticism of a higher reality
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9780312943981 | Bluejay, June 1, 1985, cover price $14.95 | About this edition: While apparently living the life of a child of the sixties, keeping his head together with sex, drugs, and adventure, Conrad Bunger is actually carrying out the mission that brought him to Earth from a distant planet--to find the secret of life
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9780395393888 | Reprint edition (Mariner Books, August 1, 1985), cover price $16.00 | About this edition: A detailed description of what the fourth dimension would be like.
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Kurious Whitedimple, an archaeology professor, and Junior Badille, a young genius, become involved in the search for alien artifacts hidden in Saturn's orbit
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9780671655464 | Pocket Books, January 1, 1986, cover price $2.95 | About this edition: Kurious Whitedimple, an archaeology professor, and Junior Badille, a young genius, become involved in the search for alien artifacts hidden in Saturn's orbit
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9780877958901 | Arbor House Pub Co, June 1, 1987, cover price $9.95 | About this edition: Twenty-three stories deal with mathematical space, the fourth dimension, a cubic earth, two dimensional worlds, catastrophe theory, paradox, topology, and mathematical modeling
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9780395468104 | Mariner Books, February 1, 1988, cover price $15.00 | About this edition: Explores postmodern mathematics, explains the five levels of reality, and discusses new realms such as gigaplexes, pixels, and Hibert space
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9780688094133 | William Morrow & Co, July 1, 1990, cover price $18.95 | About this edition: Interweaving history with science fiction, this adventure--set in the pre-Civil War South--features Edgar Allan Poe and two cohorts exploring the exotic lands of Earth's core and discovering a parallel universe
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9781932265200 | Monkeybrain, December 15, 2006, cover price $15.95 | About this edition: Fleeing his family's Virginia farm in the company of his father's slave and a companion dog, murder suspect Mason finds sanctuary in the home of his literary hero, Edgar Allan Poe, with whom he embarks on an expedition to the south pole.
9780380755356 | Reprint edition (Avon Books, January 1, 1992), cover price $3.99 | About this edition: Interweaving history with science fiction, this adventure--set in the pre-Civil War South--features Edgar Allan Poe and two cohorts exploring the exotic lands of Earth's core and discovering a parallel universe
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9780060969288 | Perennial, November 1, 1992, cover price $25.00 | About this edition: Essays discuss topics dealing with the interaction of people and computers and the impact of technology on art, literature, and music
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Two complete novels--Software, in which robots offer elderly hippie Cobb Anderson immortality, and Wetware, in which the meatbop, a new life form emerges--enter the world of cyberpunk. Reprint.
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9780380775439 | Reprint edition (Avon Books, April 1, 1994), cover price $5.99 | About this edition: Two complete novels--Software, in which robots offer elderly hippie Cobb Anderson immortality, and Wetware, in which the meatbop, a new life form emerges--enter the world of cyberpunk.
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9780691121277 | Princeton Univ Pr, November 1, 2004, cover price $26.95 | About this edition: In Infinity and the Mind, Rudy Rucker leads an excursion to that stretch of the universe he calls the "Mindscape," where he explores infinity in all its forms: potential and actual, mathematical and physical, theological and mundane.
9780691001722 | Princeton Univ Pr, May 1, 1995, cover price $22.95 | About this edition: In Infinity and the Mind, Rudy Rucker leads an excursion to that stretch of the universe he calls the "Mindscape," where he explores infinity in all its forms: potential and actual, mathematical and physical, theological and mundane.
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9780380975099 | Avon Books, May 1, 1997, cover price $23.00 | About this edition: Rudy Rucker has seen the future.
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9780380781591 | Eos, March 1, 1998, cover price $5.99 | About this edition: In the year 2953, artificial lifeforms called 'moldies' and humans who resist prejudice are banished to the Moon, and as they strive to create an Eden-like environment, intergalactic forces threaten to destroy the carefully structured world
9780380792788 | Avon Books, May 1, 1997, cover price $13.00 | About this edition: Scoffing at societal taboos that forbid fraternization with artificial life forms, Randy Karl Tucker pursues his feelings for robot bookkeeper Monique, but her abduction reveals unsetting revelations about Randy's origins.
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9780936756431 | Autonomedia, June 1, 1997, cover price $15.00 | About this edition: outsider sci-fi anthology
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9781568581989 | 3 edition (Running Pr Book Pub, May 6, 2001), cover price $13.95 | About this edition: Felix Rayman spends the day teaching indifferent students, pondering his theories on infinity, and daydreaming.
9781888869170 | Reprint edition (Hardwired, September 1, 1997), cover price $12.95 | About this edition: Felix Rayman, a frustrated university mathematician, finds the adventure he has been wishing for when he falls into a multidimensional universe
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9780312868840 | Forge, July 1, 1999, cover price $23.95 | About this edition: Using the narrative device of a tale told by an alien abductee about future technology, the author speculates on developments in evolution, technology, and science
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9780312868833 | Reprint edition (Forge, June 1, 2001), cover price $14.95 | About this edition: A delightful and informative nonfiction study by a renowned mathematician involves the tale told by an alien abductee to Rucker about future technology and developments in evolution, concepts that are then illustrated in clever cartoons.
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9780380808786 | Reprint edition (Eos, April 1, 2001), cover price $6.50 | About this edition: In 2054, Phil Gottner finds himself in over his head as he deals with a drug-addicted girlfriend, a father who has been swallowed by a hyperspatial anomaly, a new love interest with a visitor from the Moon, and a mysterious alien species and their godlike, fourth-dimensional deity.
9780380808779 | Avon Books, June 1, 2000, cover price $14.00 | About this edition: In 2054, Phil Gottner finds himself in over his head as he deals with a drug-addicted girlfriend, a father who has been swallowed by a hyperspatial anomaly, a new love interest with a visitor from the Moon, and a mysterious alien species and their godlike, fourth-dimensional deity.
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9780945558309 | Illinois State Univ, February 1, 2001, cover price $25.00 | About this edition: "To say that UFOs have captured the popular imagination of contemporary America would be an understatement*while appearances of blinking ellipsoids, whirling orbs, and have been reported throughout history, nowhere has the idea of contact with extraterrestrials taken hold so much as in the postwar United States.
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9780765303660 | Forge, June 1, 2002, cover price $24.95 | About this edition: An experimental machine leads Joe Cube, an employee of a Silicon Valley startup company, to a close encounter with Momo, a woman from the fourth dimension, who offers to make him rich if he will help her with a project.
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9780765303677 | Reprint edition (Tor Books, July 1, 2003), cover price $15.99 | About this edition: Activating an experimental machine on New Year's Eve, Joe Cube is contacted by Momo, a woman from the fourth dimension who promised to make him rich if he will help her with a special project.
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9781568582474 | Running Pr Book Pub, January 7, 2003, cover price $15.95 | About this edition: An 'innocent' computer hacker suddenly finds himself on the most wanted list when his computer becomes the source of the worst computer virus in history--a virus he had nothing to do with.
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9780765304049 | Reprint edition (Forge, November 1, 2003), cover price $18.99 | About this edition: In a series of sixteen chapters, each of which is headed by one of the artist's famous masterpieces, the author of Freeware unveils the life and times of the great sixteenth-century master as Bruegel and his companions, the cartographer Ortelius and Williblad Cheroo, an American Indian, make their way from Antwerp and Brussels to Rome.
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9780743498227 | Ibooks, October 1, 2004, cover price $11.95 | About this edition: Visited by a dimension-hopping artificial intelligence named Hans, Paul Girard, a hapless middle-aged bookstore clerk, is given the ability to jump instantly to any world he can envision, and finds himself embarking on a zany, multi-dimensional odyssey in search of happiness, love, wealth, fame, and the mystery of the universe.
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9781560257226 | Basic Books, September 29, 2005, cover price $35.00 | About this edition: An explanation of a computation-based conception of reality offers insight into the universe's simple mathematical origins, revealing how today's computers have enabled a greater understanding of how the world works, in a volume that features humorous illustrative fables and a prediction about future evolutionary developments.
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9781560258988 | 1 edition (Basic Books, September 27, 2006), cover price $18.95 | About this edition: A journey of a thousand miles begins with one step, goes the ancient saying.
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