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From Rudy Rucker - the prince of gonzo SF, a computer mogul's threat to replace messy reality with clean virtuality and by a memory-hungry artificial intelligence called the Big Pig propels nanotechnologist Ond Lutter, his autistic son, Chu, on an inter-dimensional quest for a golden harp, the Lost Chord, strung with hyper-tubes that can unroll the eighth dimension and unleash limitless computing power. Rucker (Mathematicians in Love) favours flower power of over the number crunching of Silicon Valley. His novel vibrates with the warm rhythms of dream and not the cold logic of programming. Playing with quantum computing, encryption and virtual reality, Rucker places his faith in people who find true reality gnarly enough to love.