I needed a break from YA and picked up this book because I'm a fan of some of Rucker's other books. This book fit right in with his others, and I completely loved it -- it's probably favorite. It comes cyberpunk with sort of a nostalgia for being unconnected and messes it seamlessly into the urge to be connected on every level possible. While many SF novels attempt to explore how awesome VR would be, Postsingular takes a completely different tact. Rucker creates a world that was temporarily thrown in VR all at once and then describes how this changed (for better or for worse) that world. It's a great, fun and fast read. I loved it. ( )

I really enjoyed this book.

Lately I've been on a bit of a binge for books exploring technological singularity, so I really found myself engrossed in many of the ideas here. The writing style and presentation of ideas reminded me heavily of Douglas Adams' classic Hitchhiker series. While I normally prefer the "Hard Sci-Fi", I think the outlandishness of the ideas and concepts put forth here really fit in with the "post-singular" motif - we really can't conceive of life after a singularity, so it will neccessarily seem "wacky" to us now.

Can't wait to get my hands on the follow up, Hylozoic. ( )

Very inventive and lots of interesting themes and ideas. I didn't latch onto his style of writing though, and I didn't really bond with his characters very much, they didn't really have the kind of depth that I am a sucker for. A good fast read, but not my favorite science fiction book of it's type. Some of the concepts will stick with me though, I am sure. ( )

Very goofy take on the futuristic event of a technological singularity. Serious but at the same time funny. In a way it's a thought experiment because it's proposing what will happen when we create something smarter than us. ( )

Rudy has a pretty funny take on what we’re in for when the Internet hooks up with self-replicating nanotechnology. Welcome to the Singularity. Highly recommended. ( )