title: Wetware: A Novel
author:  Craig Nova 
description: When mainstream writers break the unwritten rule of literary realism (don't consider the future) and venture into science-fictional territory, the resulting novel can be brilliant (Margaret Atwood's <I><a href="/exec/obidos/ASIN/038549081X/${0}">The Handmaid's Tale</a></I>) or weak (Paul Theroux's <I><a href="/exec/obidos/ASIN/0241119480/${0}">O-Zone</a></I>). Literary author Craig Nova's futuristic novel <I>Wetware</I> does not achieve the brilliance of Atwood (or of literary SF writers like Ursula K. Le Guin or Maureen F. McHugh), but his novel is very good, and will please most readers of both mainstream and SF literature.
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  [Table of Contents](The_Ware_Tetralogy_split_013.html#filepos2066909)
  
  
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  Rudy Rucker
  
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  Copyright © 2010 Rudy Rucker
  
  Paperback edition published by Prime Books.
  
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  The Ware Tetralogy is Copyright © 2010 Rudy Rucker.
  
  Published by Prime Books, 2010.
  
  Paperback copies of the Prime Books edition of The Ware Tetralogy
  
  can be purchased at Amazon and other book-sellers.
  
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  Past publication history of the included novels.
  
  Software: Ace Books 1982, Avon Books 1987, and Avon Books 1997.
  
  Wetware: Avon Books 1988 and Avon Books 1997.
  
  Freeware: Avon Books 1997.
  
  Realware: Avon Books, 2000.
  
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  ISBN: 978-1-60701-211-5
  
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