The Ware Tetralogy by: Rudy Rucker, William Gibson (Introduction)
Softcover. Prime Books, reprint, 2013, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 751 pages. An omnibus of Rudy Rucker's groundbreaking series [Software, Wetware, Freeware, and Realware], with an introduction by William Gibson, author of Neuromancer. The Ware series focuses on the rise and evolution of artificial intelligences side-by-side with humans. The books explore the differences between biological intelligences and electronic ones and asks the question - is there a difference at all? You'll encounter human minds copied into software that runs in robotic bodies, artificial intelligences biologically encoded into DNA and born into human bodies and even more. Clean copy.