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The Juneau Empire has a rundown of "new fiction for adult readers" at local public libraries. I didn’t get past the first item on the list.
"Mathematicians in Love," by Rudy Rucker. As Bela and Paul work to complete their graduate program in mathematics by creating a paracomputer that will predict the future, they stumble onto a bridge to an alternate universe called La Hampa. Full of mathematically inclined refugees from still other realities, La Hampa also is home to the Earth's creator, a giant jellyfish-like creature who creates a new world every Friday, Hampa-time. But once they've visited La Hampa, is it possible to return to Earth? And will it be the same one they left?
To be honest, I thought the reporter made that up. I did not believe that a book with such a silly title—and a plot to match—could have been written, much less published.
A quick Google search proved me wrong.
Obviously, science fiction isn’t my thing.
What does “mathematically inclined refugees” mean? How is one mathematically-inclined? And what makes them become refugees in this odd bunch of “other realities”? (How does one have an other reality anyway? Either it is or it aint.)
I have a sneaking suspicion that whoever came up with La Hampa was smoking la hempa.
I was wondering about that myself.
Good to hear from you, Daniel.