Spaceland: A Novel of the Fourth Dimension (Tom Doherty Associates Books)

Joe Cube is a Silicon Valley entrepreneur managing a 3-D TV project he hopes will lead to a lucrative IPO. On New Year's Eve, he brings the prototype home to impress his wife, but instead attracts unexpected attention. Joe encounters Momo, a woman from the All—a world with four spatial dimensions. She calls our world Spaceland and sees it as a flat plane filled with motion and life. Momo offers Joe a business proposition he cannot refuse. When she helps him grow a new eye on a stalk that perceives the fourth dimension, he agrees to her terms. What follows includes a night in Las Vegas, an addiction to purple 4-D food, a deteriorating marriage, and encounters with Momo's enemies—rubbery red creatures that steal money and sometimes explode. Joe experiences extraordinary adventures until Momo's scheme reveals hidden complexities. The fate of all life in Spaceland suddenly hangs in the balance. Rucker transforms mathematical concepts into science fiction adventure, following the tradition of Edwin A. Abbott's Flatland by offering a tour of higher mathematics and visionary realities.