The Secret Of Life A Science Fiction Novel of the Sixties

New York: Bluejay Books. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 1985. 1st Edition; 1st Printing. Hardcover. 0312943989 . Cover Art; This is a review copy. This book is in Near Fine condition and has a Near Fine dust jacket. The book includes a laid in review page from Bluejay books. "On March 22, 1956, an alien spacecraft from a distant planet discharges one of its passengers, a bright creature of flame, on a field of a Louisville, Kentucky farm. The flame being butchers a pig, shaping it into a human body for itself that becomes ten-year-old Conrad Bunger. Conrad's human family, which remembers Conrad as their own, accepts him, and he grows up, not realizing that he is of alien origin." "Rudolf von Bitter Rucker (born March 22, 1946) is an American mathematician, [1] computer scientist, science fiction author, and one of the founders of the cyberpunk literary movement. The author of both fiction and non-fiction, he is best known for the novels in the Ware Tetralogy, the first two of which (Software and Wetware) both won Philip K. Dick Awards. Until its closure in 2014 he edited the science fiction webzine Flurb." "As his "own alternative to cyberpunk," Rucker developed a writing style he terms transrealism. Transrealism, as outlined in his 1983 essay "The Transrealist Manifesto", is science fiction based on the author's own life and immediate perceptions, mixed with fantastic elements that symbolize psychological change. Many of Rucker's novels and short stories apply these ideas. One example of Rucker's transrealist works is Saucer Wisdom, a novel in which the main character is abducted by aliens. Rucker and his publisher marketed the book, tongue in cheek, as non-fiction." .