Bakin.SSID@HI-MULTICS@sri-unix.UUCP (09/18/83)
This isn't a review or a very complete synopsis, this is just to let sf-lovers' readers hear about the above book. It is hilarious, and contrary to the what the title may suggest, it is very legitimate SF. This physicist finds a speck of degenerate hypermatter after a second generation proton decay. After some mad scientist convolutions he manages to stabilize this n-dimensional fluff into our spacetime. This speck of hypermatter is really an alien being who is pissed that she can't return to her normal "space". So with all sorts of higher dimensional trickery, plus the fact that she can "grow" in our spacetime she manages to start a sequence of events which lead to her freedom. The book is very funny, but also contains a great discussion of higher dimensions. The author, Rudy Rucker, has evidently written some science texts as well as some other science fiction (including one called "software") The book is called The Sex Sphere and is copyrighted October 1983, but is already out. Jerry Bakin Bakin -at HI-Multics