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The birth of cyberpunk! A seaweed-smoking rebel becomes an incredible shrinking man. Under the bottom is the top--and the power to smash the Machine. After humanity becomes inextricably linked to the computers, a heroic couple makes a scale-ship journey beneath the smallest particles and through the largest cosmic structures, seeking a perfect world. Rudy Rucker is a writer, a mathematician, and a computer scientist­ with thirty-two published books. In the 1980s he received Philip K. Dick awards for his cyberpunk novels SOFTWARE and WETWARE. He took up painting in 1999, and hes had three shows of his pop-surreal works in San Francisco. His fantastic novel of the afterlife, JIM AND THE FLIMS appeared in 2011, as did his memoir, NESTED SCROLLS: A WRITER'S LIFE. Rudy is presently working on a 1950s SF novel called THE TURING CHRONICLES, featuring a love affair between computer pioneer Alan Turing and Beat author William Burroughs. Rudy also edits a speculative fiction webzine called FLURB.