Frek and the elixir / Rudy Rucker.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Rucker, Rudy v. B. (Rudy von Bitter), 1946-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Young men--Fiction.

Young men.

Fathers and sons--Fiction.

Fathers and sons.

Quests (Expeditions)--Fiction.

Quests (Expeditions).

Genre:

Fiction.

Science fiction.

Bildungsromans.

Physical Description:

476 pages ; 22 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : Tor, 2004.

Summary:

In the year 3003, the world is a biotech utopia. The tweaked plants and animals are quite wonderful, but there are only a few dozen of the old species left. Nature has been denatured by the profiteers of NuBioCom. And the arbitrary, all-powerful, and mysterious Gov runs the pervasive NuBioCom and everything else. It's up to Frek Huggins, a lad from dull, sleepy Middleville, to venture out into the galaxy to fetch an elixir to restore Earth's lost species. At least, that's what a friendly alien cuttlefish tells him the elixir will do. But can you really trust aliens? Frek finds himself in the midst of a galactic struggle for humanity's freedom, accompanied by his talking dog, Wow, the down-home mutant, Gibby, and an asteroid-raised girl named Renata. The final liberation depends on freeing Frek's long-lost father with the help of a benevolent alien called the Magic Pig. Rudy Rucker has been creating brilliantly inventive works of imagination for well over two decades. Winner of two Philip K. Dick Awards, he ranges the worlds of science and culture with freewheeling originality and wit, in this case playing with both biotechnology and the monomyth outlined by Joseph Campbell. Frek and the Elixir moves us with its evocation of humanity's struggle against impossible odds not just to survive, but to find happiness and love in a confusing universe.

Contents:

Part 1 The Departure 11

1 Middleville, 3003 13

2 The Thing Under Frek's Bed 34

3 In the Grulloo Woods 59

4 Stun City 84

5 Professor Bumby 112

6 Yunch! 142

Part 2 The Elixir 173

7 Renata 175

8 Unipusk 210

9 The Spaceport Bar 241

10 Orpoly 275

11 The Exaplex 310

Part 3 Earth's Fate 349

12 All Hell Breaks Loose 351

13 The Revolution 382

14 The Shuggoths 419

15 The Toons 444.

Notes:

"A Tom Doherty Associates book."

ISBN:

0765310589

OCLC:

53139369