book 1 of Live Robots

by Rudy Rucker

isbn: 0380701774
subject: SF, Fiction and Literature, Humor
finished: 2/27/1998

This book rocks. It's about Cobb Anderson, an angry old man suffering because he taught the robots how to bop, and Sta-Hi Mooney, whose main claim to fame is having nearly had his brain eaten by the Little Kidders. They go to the moon where the boppers are having something of a civil war; Cobb gets himself dissected and Sta-Hi finds a symbiotic cloak that makes him talk with a Japanese accent. Software is really funny; it's also good SF, and quite ahead of its time considering it was written in 1982, which is before we called cyberpunk cyberpunk. Recommended.