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There are many possible realities, infinitely many. Yet most of them are not . . . alive. Most of them are like books that no one ever actually wrote. A group-mind, like humanity's, lights up one given world. What makes this world different from some ghostly alternative universe is that we actually live here.

— Rudy Rucker The Sex Sphere (1983)

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My real speciality is the mathematical analysis of Hilbert Space operators. But this was no time to come on like an ivory-tower idealist.

The Sex Sphere (1983)

“That’s the problem with immortality,” mused Jack. “You never live long enough to get there.”

Mad Professor (2007)

The space of our universe is the hypersurface of a vast expanding hypersphere.

The Sex Sphere (1983)

The public revealed its single most predictable trait: fickleness.

Mad Professor (2007)

Mother Nature doesn’t want power-tripping greedheads looking up her skirts.

Mathematicians in Love (2006)

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