Science Fiction novel by
Rudy Rucker * * *
There is no weirdness like the weirdness of a novel written by a mathematician.
Felix Rayman is leading a life of
quiet degeneration as a mathematics instructor at
SUCAS, a parochial little state university branch in
upstate New York.
It becomes easy to understand the situation Mr Rayman has put himself in when we find that in this
publish or perish world, his research consists of attempting to solve the
Continuum Problem. People are being fired right and left as a result of state cutbacks and
political shenanigans, and he is likely to be next on the list. He even forgot to cover
protractors in his
Elementary Geometry course.
Then one day someone hands him the book
Cimon and how to get there. In what seems like the ravings of a madman, it describes a universe of
ideal forms, a land of
completed infinities, a sort of
Platonist's Dream.
That night, in his dreams, he finds a way to complete an infinity and transport himself to that land. But larger infinities exist...
In succeeding dreams, he finds himself back in Cimon, in a quest to rescue his career and his sanity.