Reviews
"This slim volume is essential reading for the author's fans and for fans of speculative fiction laced with considerable humor." -- Library Journal "A leisurely Golden Age tall tale enriched by the wonderful gibberish of mathematical physics. All fun and pure pleasure." --Rudy Rucker, author, Infinity and the Mind "Stanley G. Weinbaum's Prof. Haskel Van Manderpootz and J. U. Geisy's Dr. Xenophon Xerxes Zapt, add the name of Wilson Wu, the hero of Bisson's hilarious collection of three related stories filled with puns and inscrutable mathematical formulas. No piker, Wu manages to walk, in 'one long step for mankind,' from an auto repair garage in a nondescript part of Brooklyn directly to the moon in 'The Hole in the Hole.' He even brings back half of a dune buggy left behind by astronauts and casually explains the situation as 'a periodic incongruent neotopological metaeuclidean adjacency.' In the second tale, 'The Edge of the Universe,' Wu saves the expanding universe from shrinking. Finally, he patches 'a hole in the fabric of space-time' in 'Get Me to the Church on Time.' Fans of the late Douglas Adams's Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy will relish this irreverent but never smart-alecky spoof. Bisson has won Hugo, Nebula, and other major SF awards." -- Publishers Weekly , starred review "Resplendently outrageous! Transcendently silly! Immensely fun!" --Amy Thomson, "A leisurely Golden Age tall tale enriched by the wonderful gibberish of mathematical physics. All fun and pure pleasure." --Rudy Rucker, author, Infinity and the Mind, "A leisurely Golden Age tall tale enriched by the wonderful gibberish of mathematical physics. All fun and pure pleasure." —Rudy Rucker, author, Infinity and the Mind, "A leisurely Golden Age tall tale enriched by the wonderful gibberish of mathematical physics. All fun and pure pleasure." -Rudy Rucker, author, Infinity and the Mind, This slim volume is essential reading for the author's fans and for fans of speculative fiction laced with considerable humor." — Library Journal "A leisurely Golden Age tall tale enriched by the wonderful gibberish of mathematical physics. All fun and pure pleasure." —Rudy Rucker, author, Infinity and the Mind Stanley G. Weinbaum's Prof. Haskel Van Manderpootz and J. U. Geisy's Dr. Xenophon Xerxes Zapt, add the name of Wilson Wu, the hero of Bisson's hilarious collection of three related stories filled with puns and inscrutable mathematical formulas. No piker, Wu manages to walk, in #145;one long step for mankind,' from an auto repair garage in a nondescript part of Brooklyn directly to the moon in #145;The Hole in the Hole.' He even brings back half of a dune buggy left behind by astronauts and casually explains the situation as #145;a periodic incongruent neotopological metaeuclidean adjacency.' In the second tale, #145;The Edge of the Universe,' Wu saves the expanding universe from shrinking. Finally, he patches #145;a hole in the fabric of space-time' in #145;Get Me to the Church on Time.' Fans of the late Douglas Adams's Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy will relish this irreverent but never smart-alecky spoof. Bisson has won Hugo, Nebula, and other major SF awards." — Publishers Weekly , starred review Resplendently outrageous! Transcendently silly! Immensely fun!" —Amy Thomson, "A leisurely Golden Age tall tale enriched by the wonderful gibberish of mathematical physics. All fun and pure pleasure." -Rudy Rucker, author,Infinity and the Mind, ?This slim volume is essential reading for the author's fans and for fans of speculative fiction laced with considerable humor." ? Library Journal "A leisurely Golden Age tall tale enriched by the wonderful gibberish of mathematical physics. All fun and pure pleasure." ?Rudy Rucker, author, Infinity and the Mind ?Stanley G. Weinbaum's Prof. Haskel Van Manderpootz and J. U. Geisy's Dr. Xenophon Xerxes Zapt, add the name of Wilson Wu, the hero of Bisson's hilarious collection of three related stories filled with puns and inscrutable mathematical formulas. No piker, Wu manages to walk, in ?one long step for mankind,' from an auto repair garage in a nondescript part of Brooklyn directly to the moon in ?The Hole in the Hole.' He even brings back half of a dune buggy left behind by astronauts and casually explains the situation as ?a periodic incongruent neotopological metaeuclidean adjacency.' In the second tale, ?The Edge of the Universe,' Wu saves the expanding universe from shrinking. Finally, he patches ?a hole in the fabric of space-time' in ?Get Me to the Church on Time.' Fans of the late Douglas Adams's Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy will relish this irreverent but never smart-alecky spoof. Bisson has won Hugo, Nebula, and other major SF awards." ? Publishers Weekly , starred review ?Resplendently outrageous! Transcendently silly! Immensely fun!" ?Amy Thomson, This slim volume is essential reading for the author's fans and for fans of speculative fiction laced with considerable humor." — Library Journal "A leisurely Golden Age tall tale enriched by the wonderful gibberish of mathematical physics. All fun and pure pleasure." —Rudy Rucker, author, Infinity and the Mind Stanley G. Weinbaum's Prof. Haskel Van Manderpootz and J. U. Geisy's Dr. Xenophon Xerxes Zapt, add the name of Wilson Wu, the hero of Bisson's hilarious collection of three related stories filled with puns and inscrutable mathematical formulas. No piker, Wu manages to walk, in ‘one long step for mankind,' from an auto repair garage in a nondescript part of Brooklyn directly to the moon in ‘The Hole in the Hole.' He even brings back half of a dune buggy left behind by astronauts and casually explains the situation as ‘a periodic incongruent neotopological metaeuclidean adjacency.' In the second tale, ‘The Edge of the Universe,' Wu saves the expanding universe from shrinking. Finally, he patches ‘a hole in the fabric of space-time' in ‘Get Me to the Church on Time.' Fans of the late Douglas Adams's Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy will relish this irreverent but never smart-alecky spoof. Bisson has won Hugo, Nebula, and other major SF awards." — Publishers Weekly , starred review Resplendently outrageous! Transcendently silly! Immensely fun!" —Amy Thomson, "A leisurely Golden Age tall tale enriched by the wonderful gibberish of mathematical physics. All fun and pure pleasure." --Rudy Rucker, author, "Infinity and the Mind"
