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The war tetratology Shredding Your Brain to Live Forever
This text provides a comprehensive look at Rudy Rucker's Ware Tetralogy, a series characterized by its high-density surrealism and pioneering "street surrealist" style. The narrative follows several generations of the Mooney and Anderson families as they navigate a future defined by sentient robots called boppers and their biological counterparts, the moldies. Key characters like Cobb Anderson, the creator of robot self-reproduction, and the drifter Sta-Hi Mooney struggle with identity and survival as human consciousness is frequently digitized or transferred into machine bodies. The sources…
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