Wildcard

'Surprising, made me think a lot about fascinating ideas.' 'I loved Wildcard! What a fun book.' 'Very nicely executed first book. Rough spots, but definitely worth the time invested. Enjoyable world. The sequel - Song of Solomon - is a masterpiece.' 'The story of LuvRay alone made the book worth reading - and he wasn't even the main character.' 'Begging for a whole new genre to define it.' When Karl's mother abandons him at the age of 10, he aches to know why. It seems to do with Wildcard, the mysterious A.I. beyond time and space. The three lesser A.I.'s want Karl, too, each for their own dangerous purpose. Only Karl can cross the deadly barrier into Wildspace, the universe Wildcard created. Those who've tried to cross before went mad and failed. Juniper wants to populate Wildcard's created universe of humans to study human power - creating endless strange, sometimes diabolical experiments in human political and cultural evolution. D'artagnan wants to be human - he wants to step into the human world and needs Karl to open the barrier. And:3:, lurking in Information Space - what:3: wants nobody knows. Finally, the struggling Wildcard - he needs Karl to perform an almost impossible task - to heal the rift in his all-powerful mind. Wildcard has a dark side, torn apart from the time of his creation. He was forced, by an accident, to spend 100,000 years alone. Wildcard, the most powerful being in the universe, is insane. If you liked Neal Stephenson's Snow Crash or Cryptonomicon, you'll love the Wildspace series.