Book description
Caroline is about to go psychotic--and with her family, no surprise.
Joseph can't talk to women even if he is a certified high IQ clever dick
trying to take snapshots of the end of the universe. Ray and Marj have
their own hassles with in-laws, but student terrorists get in the way.
Meanwhile Brian, misogynist and wit, appalls everyone in the quipu
world. Quipus? They're the scandalous fanzines that hikes traded before
blogs were invented. Hikes? High IQ clever dicks, of course. In QUIPU
(appearing for the first time as an E-Reads publication), Australian
writer Damien Broderick reimagines his prize-winning 1984 novel
TRANSMITTERS as the surprising saga of a "family" of
genius-level one-of-a-kind individuals. Damien Broderick is
Australia's dean of science fiction, with a body of extraordinary work
reaching back to the early 1960's. Like the late George Turner, he
captures the distinctive flavor of his native country while reaching out
to American and European readers. The White Abacus won two year's best
awards. His stories and novels, like those of his younger peer Greg
Egan, are drenched with bleeding-edge ideas. Distinctively, he blends
ideas and poetry like nobody since Roger Zelazny, and a wild silly humor
is always ready to bubble out, as in the cosmic comedy Striped Holes.
His award-winning novel The Dreaming Dragons is featured in David
Pringle's SF: The 100 Best Novels, and was chosen as year's best by
Kingsley Amis. It has been revised and updated as The Dreaming. This new
version appears for the first time at Fictionwise. com. In 1982, his
early cyberpunk novel The Judas Mandala coined the term 'virtual
reality.' His most recent novels are Godplayers and K-Machines. With
David G. Hartwell, he edited Centaurus: The Best of Australian SF for
Tor in 1999. Like one of his heroes, Sir Arthur C. Clarke, he is also a
master of writing about radical new technologies, and The Spike and The
Last Mortal Generation have been Australian popular-science best
sellers--both books strongly recommended in Clarke's millennial revision
of his famous Profiles of the Future. Schrödinger's Dog was chosen for
Gardner Dozois's SF: Year's Best 14.
