Numbers Don't Lie
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Book Overview
Everybody should have a friend like Wilson Wu. Rock musician, Volvo mechanic, trial lawyer, camel driver, aeronautics engineer, and entomological meteorologist, Wilson Wu is the man to call if you stumble on, say, a rift in the space-time continuum. He'll do the math. You handle the financial transactions, especially with the guy who runs the junkyard. Gently witty, seductive, and intoxicating as Kentucky whiskey in Park Slope, Numbers Don't Lie takes us from deepest Brooklyn to the Deep South and back again, on a journey of friendship, romance, and wacky physics that just might be true. Bisson's prose, compact as an iPod and smooth as an I-80 on-ramp, is, he explains, "scrupulously illustrated with Wilson Wu's formulas, all of which have been reviewed for elegance by famed mathematician Rudy Rucker." Can we trust Terry Bisson? Of course Check out the math: Numbers Don't Lie. These inventive stories were originally published in Asimov's Science Fiction as "The Hole in the Hole," "The Edge of the Universe," and "Get Me to the Church on Time."
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:1892391325
ISBN13:9781892391322
Release Date:September 2005
Publisher:Tachyon Publications
Length:163 Pages
Weight:0.50 lbs.
Dimensions:0.5" x 5.0" x 8.0"
Customer Reviews
3 ratings
Another fine book by Terry Bisson
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 15 years ago
Terry Bisson is a very entertaining author. I've enjoyed all of his books and stories, and look forward to more.
Convoluted, splendidly-silly tall tales. 4.6 stars
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 18 years ago
This is a collection of the three Wilson Wu stories (first published in Asimov's, 1994-98), gathered into a nice little fixup 'novel'. The first, "The Hole in the Hole" introduces Wu and his Brooklyn pal Irving, as they search for an all-Volvo junkyard -- which, the author notes, really exists (or did) in the real Hole in darkest Brooklyn. Presumably the real Frankie's lacks the periodic incongruent neotopological adjacency (aka the lunar tire-dump) that is the centerpiece of this convoluted and very entertaining tall tale.. Which you may well have already seen -- it was a Hugo nominee, and has been reprinted several times. The other two stories aren't quite up to HOLE -- but they're still pretty darned good. Recommended. The author's website, terrybisson[dot]com, is well worth a visit, and has several free stories, if you're new to Bisson. Happy reading-- Peter D. Tillman
Renews your sense of wonder
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 18 years ago
This was the type of book that drew me into science fiction in the first place. It ranks up there with Heinlein's juveniles. And I mean that as high praise. The only thing juvenile about that famous series of novels was that they avoided sex and extreme violence.
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