Surfing across the transfinite dimensions, this giddy sequel to 2007's Postsingular chronicles the fight to keep Earth "gnarly" in the face of aliens who want to steal the quantum chaos that makes the planet interesting.

Decius wrote:

Have you read either? Recommended or just noted?

Just noted. Spaceland is the most recently published Rucker in my library. I once came close to buying Lifebox but stopped short because I decided I was even less likely to actually finish this book than A New Kind of Science, which I've at least started a couple of times.

Of course, that shouldn't stop me (or you) according to Nassim Taleb:

Read books are far less valuable than unread ones. The library should contain as much of what you do not know as your financial means, mortgage rates, and the currently tight real-estate market allows you to put there. You will accumulate more knowledge and more books as you grow older, and the growing number of unread books on the shelves will look at you menacingly. Indeed, the more you know, the larger the rows of unread books. Let us call this collection of unread books an antilibrary.

If you want formal recommendations, consider these:

Infinite Jest (*, *)
Anathem (*)
The Road
Blood Meridian
The Forever War
The Unforgiving Minute
The World Without Us
From Dawn to Decadence
The Metaphysical Club

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