num_pages: 476
description: In his first new novel since 2013 cyberpunk pioneer Rudy Rucker offers his own smart hilarious and uniquely gnarly science fiction version of the classic road-trip story. When a seemingly-innocent trumpet solo somehow opens a transdimensional connection to Mappyworld a parallel universe containing a single endless plain divided by ridges into basin-like worlds three California teens find themselves taken on a million mile road trip across a landscape of alien civilizations in a beat-up purple 80s wagon . . . with a dark-energy motor graphene tires and quantum shocks of course. Their goal? To stop carnivorous flying saucers from invading Earth. And just maybe to find love along the way. Million Mile Road Trip is a phantasmagoric roller-coaster ridemind warpingly smart and wildly funny with a warmly beating heart. Night Shade Books ten-volume series with Rudy Rucker collects nine of the brilliantly weird novels for which the mathematician-turned-author is known as well as a tenth never-before-published book Million Mile Road Trip. Were proud to collect in one place so much of the work of this influential figure in the early cyberpunk scene and to share Ruckers fascinating unique worldview with an entirely new generation of readers.
language: English
title: Million Mile Road Trip
publisher: Night Shade