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by Rudy V. B. Rucker (otherwise under Rudy Rucker)

Series: The Ware Tetralogy (2)

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Info:	Eos (1997), Mass Market Paperback, 183 pages
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Rucker's Robotos, or bops, have decided to go in for a bit of hybridisation, so they create organic clone bodies for themselves from human DNA.

Quite a bit of silliness in these books, robot moon bases and other explorations notwithstanding, it is a bit of a look at how weird sentient machines or AI could get.

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bluetyson | Jan 8, 2008 |

Not as good as "Software", the first in the series. In fact, after reading this one I probably won't bother with "Freeware". (

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gregfromgilbert | Feb 27, 2007 |

I was delighted to find out that my classmate's father wrote such interesting stories. (

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The Ware Tetralogy (2)

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Humans created the sentient robot "boppers," but now it's the boppers who have started creating humans. Clones and DNA-splicing have spawned the meatbop, a human body infused with the software (the mind and personality) of a bopper. The meatbops are interested in propagating down on Earth, but that might not be so good for humanity (the boppers have a nasty habit of enslaving humans, actually). When a couple of (reasonably) innocent humans get tangled up in the bopper's machinations on the moon, it's time to drag out the stored mind of bopper-creator Cobb Anderson and see if he can help.

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