Hylozoic
Postsingular Book Two

by Rudy Rucker (signed)
Frontispiece by Bob Eggleton (signed)

Easton Press First Edition

Description: Leatherbound hardback book published by Easton Press in 2009. Bound in top grade dark blue leather with 22kt gold lettering and cover artwork. Hubbed spine, acid neutral paper with page edges gilded, satin moire endpapers, and a satin ribbon book mark sewn in. Collectors Note, Certificate of Authenticity, and unused publisher supplied bookplate laid in (not attached). Originally issued by Easton Press signed only by the author on the limitation page without inscription or personalization, we have also gotten this copy signed as follows: Signed by frontispiece artist Bob Eggleton without inscription or personalization. Book number 870 of 900 copies issued by Easton Press as part of the Signed First Editions of Science Fiction series.

Synopsis: As explained in Postsingular, thanks to the Singularity, life on Earth is filled with new meaning--in fact now, due to some fluke-y nanotechnology, all matter has consciousness and can connect to all other matter telepathically. So, instead of having to rely on cumbersome television to mediate between interested voyeurs and exhibitionists, when you want to find out what's happening to your favorite celebs, you just tune your brain to those frequencies. Chu (an important player whom readers met in the preceding book) and his friends Thuy and Jayjay don't mind the lack of privacy, and so they live a pretty sweet life as live-action media stars--until aliens invade and these reluctant heroes might be the only ones who can stop the bad extraterrestrials from enslaving Earthlings and taking complete control.

Publisher's Note: After the Singularity, everyone and everything is sentient and telepathic. Aliens notice and invade Earth. In Rucker's last novel, Postsingular, the Singularity happened and life on Earth was transformed by the awakening of all matter into consciousness and into telepathic communication. The most intimate moments of your life can be experienced by anyone who cares to pay attention, or by hundreds of thousands of anyones if you are one of the Founders who helped create the Singularity. The small bunch of Founders, including young newlyweds Thuy, a hypertext novelist, and Jayjay, a gamer and brain-enhancement addict, are living a popular, live-action media life. But now alien races that have already gone through this transformation notice Earth for the first time, and begin to arrive to exploit both the new environment and any available humans. Some of them are real estate developers, some are slavers, and some just want to help. But how to tell the difference? Someone has to save humanity from the alien invasions, and it might as well be reality media stars Thuy and Jayjay.

Industry reviews: "Rucker's approach takes a high-comic trajectory with a satirical edge, adding plot and imagery evidently inspired by the paintings of medieval Dutch artist Hieronymus Bosch....Serious, uproarious fun, with brain-teasers and brilliant ideas tossed about like confetti." (starred review) (04/15/2009)

Condition: Binding - fine, unread, new, only removed from the shrinkwrap to take pictures. Dust jacket - none, as issued.

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