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Original Title:	Software
ISBN:	0380701774 (ISBN13: 9780380701773)
Edition Language:	English
Series:	Ware #1
Characters:	Cobb Anderson, Sta-Hi Mooney, Ralph Numbers, Mr. Frostee
Literary Awards:	Philip K. Dick Award (1983)

Software (Ware #1) Paperback | Pages: 167 pages

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Cobb Anderson created the "boppers," sentient robots that overthrew their human overlords. But now Cobb is just an aging alcoholic waiting to die, and the big boppers are threatening to absorb all of the little boppers--and eventually every human--into a giant, melded consciousness. Some of the little boppers aren't too keen on the idea, and a full-scale robot revolt is underway on the moon (where the boppers live). Meanwhile, bopper Ralph Numbers wants to give Cobb immortality by letting a big bopper slice up his brain and tape his "software." It seems like a good idea to Cobb.

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Title	:	Software (Ware #1)
Author	:	Rudy Rucker
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Special Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 167 pages
Published	:	October 1st 1987 by Eos (first published 1982)
Categories	:	Science Fiction. Cyberpunk. Fiction

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Ratings: 3.75 From 3865 Users | 164 Reviews

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From my booklog, 12-8-1991: OK+ on reread. Sta-hi vs Mr Frostee! Lots of period California hippie humor, circa 1982. See my note re the 4 WARES for $1! Deal!

This 1982 cyberpunk classic is a must read for Science fiction fans. I am not sure why others read science fiction but I read it because the ability for the stories to expand my thinking. Out of date in some ways Software holds up very well and that might be because Rudy Rucker is a genius, for real a genius. A mathematician and computer scientist Rucker writes science fiction novels no one else could match. Inventiveness, radical thinking and pretty comical through out.Software is closer to

This book is set in a dystopian future where the Boomer cohort has been shipped off to Florida to live on free government provided food drops, and rent is free, because Social Security ran out before 2020 (when the book takes place) and riots forced the government to somehow provide for the huge aging cohort. In the book, the aging Boomers are called pheezers - for "freaky geezers" - many of whom still cling to their youthful rebelliousness (remember this book was written before the 80s - when

On Earth live the Pheezers, a generation of constantly drunk old-timers. By this time in the future, artificially produced organs are cheap and drunks survive for decades by simply replacing wasted livers with new ones at will.On the moon live the Boppers, the first generation of robots that have learned to 'bop', which means having conscious thoughts and reflections. Because they became sentient, they fought for and obtained their independence from Earth. But humans and Boppers still get along

"Software" by Rudy Rucker poses the one thing most Science Fiction writers dread. The loss of the 3 Laws of Robotics and shows the evolution of Robots to a point in which they consider the Human soul or the "it" of life as the very definition of Software. Therefore Human traits, feelings, memories, actions, and desires. Can all be mapped and moved if necessary. Well as you might have figured that didn't fly well with humans. Which makes this novel a short but very interesting read.As part of a

An interesting take on robots that lies somewhere between Asimov and Terminator, but there were no characters for whom I felt much affinity. Amusing enough that I'll probably finish at least another of the tetralogy... we'll see if I make thru them all...

Oh Rudy Rucker, what a wacky bastard. His 'ware trilogy and 'the hacker and the ants' are my favourites of his. It's been so long since I read this, but I still have such strong positive feelings when I see the cover that I had to give it 4 stars when Goodreads recommended it to me. It is supposed to be Biopunk, or some were genepunk genre, but really it is science fiction written by a goddamn hippy mathematician. Delightful!