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Title: Quantum Literature?
Review: In the strange worlds of quantum physics and the mathematics of infinity, things happen which defy common sense. Rucker was stuck in a small women's college teaching mathematics during the composition of this book, and his feelings of being out-of-place are mixed with the illogical mathematics he was studying, resulting in a book with a disturbingly chaotic flow.Dreamlike, surreal, psychedelic or just plain haphazard (depending on your frame of mind), this book lurches from storytelling to math to philosophy to self-analysis to physics to gutter humor to Kerouac to.... talking cockroaches, infinite hotels and a marriage on the rocks.Not a pleasant read -- one is never allowed to "suspend disbelief" -- and the plot twists in the book just happen, like quantum events, with no logic or internal rhythm or storytelling momentum.
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