Hylozoic

 

 

 

 

 

 

HYLOZOIC

 

 

 

 

 

TOR BOOKS BY RUDY RUCKER

 

As Above, So Below

 

Frek and the Elixir

 

Hylozoic

 

Mathematicians in Love

 

Postsingular

 

Saucer Wisdom

 

Spaceland

 

RUDY RUCKER

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

A TOM DOHERTY ASSOCIATES BOOK
NEW YORK

 

 

 

 

This is a work of fiction. All of the characters, organizations, and events portrayed in this novel are either products of the author's imagination or are used fictitiously.

 

HYLOZOIC

 

Copyright © 2009 by Rudy Rucker

 

All rights reserved.

 

A Tor Book
Published by Tom Doherty Associates, LLC
175 Fifth Avenue
New York, NY 10010

 

www.tor-forge.com

 

Tor
^®
is a registered trademark of Tom Doherty Associates, LLC.

 

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

 

Rucker, Rudy v. B. (Rudy von Bitter), 1946–

Hylozoic / Rudy Rucker. — 1st ed.

        p. cm.

“A Tom Doherty Associates book.”

ISBN-13: 978-0-7653-2074-2

ISBN-10: 0-7653-2074-6

I. Title.

PS3568.U298H96 2009

813'.54—dc22

2008053399

 

First Edition: June 2009

 

Printed in the United States of America

 

0  9  8  7  6  5  4  3  2  1

 

 

 

 

For Georgia, Rudy, and Isabel

 

 

 

 

 

The chicken on the ladder in chapter ten, “Ergot,” is from my friend Paul Mavrides.

A draft version of chapter eleven, “Hieronymus Bosch's Apprentice,” appeared in
Flurb
No. 4, September 2007.

In chapter seventeen, “The Maelstrom,” I've appropriated some phrases from Edgar Allan Poe's masterpiece,
The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket
, and from his shorter tale, “A Descent into the Maelström.” Thanks, Eddy!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Hylozoism (from the Greek
hyle
, matter, and
zoe,
life) is the doctrine that all matter is instrinsically alive. Under hylozoism, every object is claimed to have some degree or sense of life.

—David Skrbina,
Panpsychism in the West

 

 

 

 

 

 

HYLOZOIC