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I admit to being a Chalker-stalker, and I've read most everything he's written (that I'm aware of). Like most everything of his, you need your brain on when you read it, or else things just won't make sense or you won't follow. I consider that requirement a good thing. Also like Chalker's other books, this one exists (portrays) a very, very dynamic universe, probably more so than his other books, as the universe itself regularly changes. He warns about all the change up front, and it seems to be what he's going for. If you don't mind keeping up, it's an excellent read. I've read it three times now and still have integrated the first chapter into the full, three-book story. That's about all the time you have until everything changes, the first time.


Tags : The Cybernetic Walrus (The Wonderland Gambit, Book 1) [Jack L. Chalker] on Amazon.com. *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers. EVERYTHING YOU THINK YOU KNOW IS WRONG... That was the strange message left on Cory Maddox's e-mail--just at the moment when years of work on a revolutionary subspace computer system were about to pay off. Nothing would be the same for Cory again. Suddenly his life was thrown into chaos when the company that controlled his patent was sold out from under him,Jack L. Chalker,The Cybernetic Walrus (The Wonderland Gambit, Book 1),Del Rey,034538847X,Science Fiction - General,Science fiction,Fiction,Fiction Science Fiction General

The Cybernetic Walrus The Wonderland Gambit Book 1 Jack L Chalker 9780345388476 Books Reviews

I know! Thirteenth Floor wasn't based on this novel (or the series, either), but that movie kept coming to mind as I read the first part of Cybernetic Walrus. Chalker is original and creative in this book, though, and it's much more satisfying than the "What Is Real?" movies out there. A thoroughly enjoyable book, stands as an adventure in its own right, but also beckons the reader on to the rest of the trilogy.
The protagonist, Cory Maddox undergoes plenty of transformation in this story, running through several life "phases" while trying to sort out who to trust. One of the enjoyable features of this series is that the reader is never quite certain who he should trust, either. Often, I found myself wanting to urge Cory & Riki to trust the wrong (in hindsight) characters.
Plenty here for either the SF or fantasy fan. Thoroughly enjoyable--Chalker knows how to entertain while stretching the mind and imagination. Perhaps the worst feature of this book is that the 3rd book of the trilogy is so difficult to obtain.
A solid four-star rating great fun, but not absolute genius.
Jack L. Chalker's theory of existence was spelled out in Book I, P. 223 "... Sometime, somebody, in a world we otherwise know nothing about but which has to be far more advanced than the one we now knew, built a vast computer for some reason and put tremendous knowledge and capability into it. Something went wrong, or so it seemed. A group, a small group, of people from that original place, that true universe, had come into the system and gotten lost, then trapped, in an ever-increasing series of exquisitely detailed virtual universes.. [Brand] was the only hope of getting everybody together again and back to reality. ..."
Chalker wrote, "All reality is programming. We cannot know the real we are trapped in an endless series of simulations, all of us, and some, like myself, in simulations within simulations. ...." He uses an IT, a thing, a faceless one or a gray ancient to speak these lines, rather than a flesh and blood character. This device implied a para-programmer, one outside the mind of man. This invented God is in control not only of the author outside the story's pages but in control of all the characters within the pages of the book.
Reality now has a counterpart, virtual reality. The characters, en mass, stare into the mirror of their own minds and realize that they had no measuring rod with which to gauge their own realities. The mind is self reflective. The mind has no outer objective way to measure either its input or output. The characters reveal the dead end of human thought. The fact that the tactile nerves register solidity reveals little regarding production or projection of such solidity. There is no way to distinguish whether the neurons fire due to sensory input rather than from say drugs or computer generated inputs. Reality, thus loses its previous foundation.
Chalker posits an Existence Computer with limitless memory able to fill in a separate reality for each and every mind. Everyone gets their own set of individual mental constructs. With this god-like computer unlimited universes to surround each person's set of ideas could be created. (P. 211 BK II). Taking this idea one step further, each person is a circuit on the mother board of the universe. Every solid item that surrounds a person is created within another little circuit. The whole universe is the giant circuitry, the mother board of existence. We are all but chips, powered from this hidden source of energy that we call existence. Chalker names his god character Matthew Brand. Brand understands the circuitry and power of the Existence Computer enough to become part of it. Brand was able to join with the energy reactor in order to control the energy flow into the mother board of the Existence Computer.
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This book was given to me as a recommendation by a friend and I was blown away. Chalker's communication style and ability to switch perspectives makes this a unique and captivating series. A five star series for sure.
What is real? What is reality? Other reviews mention a vague comparison to the original Matrix film, it is more than that.
My husband recommended this book and it is absolutely a mind-bending adventure for the computer geek in you. You will want to read the next one.
I admit to being a Chalker-stalker, and I've read most everything he's written (that I'm aware of). Like most everything of his, you need your brain on when you read it, or else things just won't make sense or you won't follow. I consider that requirement a good thing. Also like Chalker's other books, this one exists (portrays) a very, very dynamic universe, probably more so than his other books, as the universe itself regularly changes. He warns about all the change up front, and it seems to be what he's going for. If you don't mind keeping up, it's an excellent read. I've read it three times now and still have integrated the first chapter into the full, three-book story. That's about all the time you have until everything changes, the first time.