Master of space and time [electronic resource] / Rudy Rucker; read by Scott Grunden.— [
ISBN: 9781433285257 (sound recording : OverDrive Audio Book)
Title from: Title details screen.
Unabridged.
Duration: 6 hr. 3 min.
Requires OverDrive Media Console (file size: 84.8 MB).
Mode of access: World Wide Web.
Text first published in 1984.
1. Inventors – Fiction. 2.
Joe Fletcher’s business gets back on its feet when an infinite number of insect-sized versions of his former business partner Harry Gerber appear floating above the dashboard of his car. Harry (who’s just back from the future) want Joe to encourage him to build a “blunzer,” the machine that will allow him to travel in time and bend the laws of physics to his will, in other words, to become the master of space and time. He also needs Joe to lend him the money to buy the equipment and the very expensive gluons needed for fuel. But, Joe can be assured that the investment is safe, because the fact that all the tiny Harrys are there proves that the blunzer works!
Professor Rucker weaves Joe and Harry’s wild ride through space-time from equal parts of modern particle physics, cosmology, and the folktale of the person given three wishes as a magic boon. And he’s stuffed it full of mind bending paradoxes and LOL science-fiction clichés. He’s also given it the slapstick pacing of a Keystone Cops film. It’s quite a trip.
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