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Freeware
   Title: Freeware (#3)
   Year: 1997
   Category: Novel Series   
   Series: Ware
   Author: Rudy Rucker   
   Publisher: Eos   
   Plot:
Now, in 2053, "moldies" are the latest robotic advancement--evolved artificial lifeforms made of soft plastic and gene-tweaked molds and algae, so anatomically inventive and universally despised that their very presence on the planet has thrown the entire low-rent future into a serious tailspin. So the moon is the place to be, if you're a persecuted "moldie" or an enlightened "flesher" intent an creating a new, more utopian hybrid civilization. Of course up there, there are other intergalactic intelligences to contend with--and some not so intelligent--who have their own agendas and appetites.
Realware
   Title: Realware (#4)
   Year: 2000
   Category: Novel Series   
   Series: Ware
   Author: Rudy Rucker   
   Publisher: Eos   
   Plot:
This hilarious finale to the award-winning series offers more cutting-edge science, raucous social satire and deeply informed speculations from one of science fiction's wittiest writers (San Francisco Chronicle).
Software
   Title: Software (#1)
   Year: 1982
   Category: Novel Series   
   Series: Ware
   Author: Rudy Rucker   
   Publisher: Ace   
   Plot:
Software introduces Cobb Anderson as a retired computer scientist who was once tried for treason for figuring out how to give robots artificial intelligence and free will, creating the race of boppers. By 2020, they have created a complex society on the Moon, where the boppers developed because they depend on super-cooled superconducting circuits. In that year, Anderson is a pheezer — a freaky geezer, Rucker's depiction of elderly Baby Boomers — living in poverty in Florida and terrified because he lacks the money to buy a new artificial heart to replace his failing, secondhand one.
The_Hacker_And_The_Ants
   Title: The Hacker And The Ants
   Year: 1994
   Category: Novel   
   Author: Rudy Rucker   
   Publisher: Avon Books   
   Plot:
Jerzy Rugby is trying to create truly intelligent robots. While his actual life crumbles, Rugby toils in his virtual office, testing the robots online. Then, something goes wrong and zillions of computer virus ants invade the net. Rugby is the man wanted for the crime. He's been set up to take a fall for a giant cyberconspiracy and he needs to figure out who — or what — is sabotaging the system in order to clear his name. Plunging deep into the virtual worlds of Antland of Fnoor to find some answers, Rugby confronts both electronic and all-too-real perils, facing death itself in a battle for his freedom.
Transreal_Cyberpunk
   Title: Transreal Cyberpunk
   Year: 2015
   Category: Novel   
   Author: Rudy Rucker   Bruce Sterling   
   Publisher: Transreal Books   
   Plot: N/A
Wetware
   Title: Wetware (#2)
   Year: 1988
   Category: Novel Series   
   Series: Ware
   Author: Rudy Rucker   
   Publisher: Avon Books   
   Plot:
Set in 2030–2031, ten years after the events of Software, Wetware focuses on the attempt of an Edgar Allan Poe-obsessed bopper named Berenice to populate Earth with a robot/human hybrid called a meatbop. Toward this end, she implants an embryo in a human woman living on the Moon (Della Taze, Cobb Anderson's niece) and then frames her for murder to force her to return to Earth. After only a few days, she gives birth to a boy named Manchile, who has been genetically programmed to carry bopper software in his brain (and in his sperm), and to grow to maturity in a matter of weeks.
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