Million Mile Road Trip

In his first new novel since 2013, cyberpunk pioneer Rudy Rucker offers his own smart, hilarious, and uniquely gnarly science fiction version of the classic road-trip story.

When a seemingly-innocent trumpet solo somehow opens a transdimensional connection to Mappyworld, a parallel universe containing a single, endless plain divided by ridges into basin-like worlds, three California teens find themselves taken on a million mile road trip across a landscape of alien civilizations in a beat-up, purple 80s wagon . . . with a dark-energy motor, graphene tires and quantum shocks, of course. Their goal? To stop carnivorous flying saucers from invading Earth. And, just maybe, to find love along the way.

Million Mile Road Trip is a phantasmagoric roller-coaster ride—mind warpingly smart and wildly funny, with a warmly beating heart.

Night Shade Books’ ten-volume series with Rudy Rucker collects nine of the brilliantly weird novels for which the mathematician-turned-author is known, as well as a tenth, never-before-published book, Million Mile Road Trip. We’re proud to collect in one place so much of the work of this influential figure in the early cyberpunk scene, and to share Rucker’s fascinating, unique worldview with an entirely new generation of readers.

In primul sau roman nou din 2013, pionierul cyberpunk-ului Rudy Rucker ofera propria sa versiune stiintifico-fantastica, hilara si unic, stiintifica, a povestii clasice de calatorie rutiera. Cand un solo aparent inocent de trompeta deschide cumva o conexiune transdimensionala cu Mappyworld, un univers paralel care contine o singura campie nesfarsita impartita de creste in lumini asemanatoare bazinului, trei adolescenti californieni se afla intr-o calatorie rutiera de un milion de mile intr-un peisaj de extraterestri civilizatii intr-un vagon violet din anii '80.