Cover of Rudy Rucker's Novel, Spaceland.

Spaceland is a science fiction novel written by the Silicon Valley mathematician and computer scientist Rudy Rucker, and published in 2002 by Tor Books. Science fiction is a form of speculative fiction principally dealing with the impact of imagined science and technology, or both, upon society and persons as individuals. ... A view of downtown San Jose, the self-proclaimed Capital of Silicon Valley. ... Rudolf Rucker, Fall 2005. ... Tor Books is an imprint of Tom Doherty Associates, LLC which publishes popular fiction, and is particularly noted for its science fiction and fantasy titles. ...

In a tribute to Edwin Abbott Abbott's Flatland, a classic mathematical fantasy about a 2-dimensional being (a Square) who receives a surprise visit from a higher-dimensional sphere, Rudy Rucker's Spaceland describes the life of Joe Cube, an average modern-day Silicon Valley hotshot who one day discovers the fourth dimension from an unexpected visitation. Edwin Abbott Abbott (December 20, 1838 – 1926), English schoolmaster and theologian, is best known as the author of the mathematical satire Flatland (1884). ... The cover to Flatland, 6th Edition. ... In plane (Euclidean) geometry, a square is a polygon with four equal sides, four right angles, and parallel opposite sides. ... A sphere (< Greek σφαίρα) is a perfectly symmetrical geometrical object. ... Cube with fourth-dimensional directions (ana/kata) creating a hypercube. ...

Plot summary

Joe Cube is a high tech executive waiting for his company to be IPOed. On the New Year's Eve before the new millennium (2000), trying to impress his wife Jena, he brings home a prototype of his company's new product (a TV screen that turns standard television broadcasting into a 3D image). It brings no warmth to their cooling marriage, but it does attract the attention of somebody else. Joe is suddenly contacted by a Momo, a woman from the fourth dimension she calls the All, of which our entire world (which she calls Spaceland) is like nothing but the thin surface of a rug. Wikipedia does not yet have an article with this exact name. ... This article is about the year 2000. ... Cube with fourth-dimensional directions (ana/kata) creating a hypercube. ...

Momo has a business proposition for Joe that she won't let him refuse. She is bent on making him start a company that will create a specific product that she will supply. The upside potential becomes much clearer for Joe once Momo "augments" him, by helping him grow a new eye on a 4D stalk, giving him the power to see in four dimensional directions, as well as the ability to see into our dimension using a four dimension perspective.

After that, it's a wild ride through a million-dollar night in Las Vegas, a budding addiction to a tasty purple fruit from the All, a troubled marriage, eye-popping voyages into Momo's universe and strange encounters with Momo's sworn enemies (who are another race of 4D beings), rubbery red creatures called the Wackles, who steal money, speak in unusual words, offer sage advice, and sometimes messily explode when shot at. The plot gets complicated when the Wackles kill Momo, and Joe discovers the startling revelation about Momo's business scheme. Suddenly, the fate of all beings in our world Spaceland is at stake and Joe must do something about it fast before it is too late. This article is about the city of Las Vegas in Nevada. ... Fruit stall in Barcelona, Spain. ... The deepest visible-light image of the cosmos, the Hubble Ultra Deep Field. ...

External link

• Rudy Rucker's Spaceland Page