Spaceland A Novel of the Fourth Dimension by Rucker, Rudy - 2002

New York: Tom Doherty Associates, 2002. Book. Illus. by Wayne, Taral. New. Hardcover. First Edition. 5.22(w) x 9.50(h) x 1.17(d). Mylar protected dust jacket. "Joe Cube is a Silicon Valley hotshot -- well, a would-be hotshot anyway -- hoping that the 3-D TV project he's managing will lead to the big money IPO he's always dreamed of. On New Year's Eve, trying to impress his wife, he sneaks home the prototype. It brings no new warmth to their cooling relationship, but it does attract someone else's attention. When Joe sees a set of lips talking to him (floating in midair) and feels the poke of a disembodied finger (inside him), it's not because of the champagne he's drunk. He has just met Momo, a woman from the All, a world of four spatial dimensions for whom our narrow world, which she calls Spaceland, is something like a rug, but one filled with motion and life. Momo has a business proposition for Joe, an offer she won't let him refuse. The upside potential becomes much clearer to him once she helps him grow a new eye (on a stalk) that can see in the fourth-dimensional directions, and he agrees. After that it's a wild ride through a million-dollar night in Las Vegas, a budding addiction to tasty purple 4-D food, a failing marriage, eye-popping excursions into the All, and encounters with Momo's foes, rubbery red critters who steal money, offer sage advice, and sometimes messily explode. Joe is having the time of his life -- until Momo's scheme turns out to have angles he couldn't have imagined. Suddenly the fate of all life here in Spaceland is at stake"..