Deze serie ontvouwt zich in een nabije toekomst en dompelt lezers onder in een wereld die gevormd is door geavanceerde nanotechnologie die klaar is voor wereldwijde transformatie. Het beschrijft het complexe samenspel tussen visionaire technologieleiders en onverwachte uitdagers die de diepgaande gevolgen van deze krachtige nieuwe technologie navigeren. De verhalen duiken in diepgaande ethische kwesties, machtsdynamieken en de veerkracht van de menselijke geest in het aangezicht van snelle, maatschappijveranderende veranderingen.
After a bizarre scheme on the part of a ruthless computer billionaire and a wacky U.S. president to radically alter the world through sentient nanotechnology goes awry, mysterious giant humanoids from another quantum universe arrive on Earth with plans to tidy up humankind's mess.
In Rucker's last novel, Postsingular, the Singularity happened. Life on Earth has been transformed by the awakening of all matter into consciousness and telepathic communication. The most intimate moments of your life can be experienced by anyone who cares to pay attention, or by hundreds of thousands of anyones if you are one of the Founders who helped create the Singularity. The small bunch of Founders, including young newlyweds Thuy, a hypertext novelist, and Jayjay, a gamer and brain-enhancement addict, are living a popular live-action media life. But now alien races that have already gone through this transformation notice Earth for the first time, and begin to arrive to exploit both the new environment and any available humans. Some of them are real estate developers, some are slavers, and some just want to help. But who is to tell the difference? Someone has to save humanity from the alien invasions, and it might as well be reality media stars Thuy and Jayjay. They have the problems of soap opera stars, and are still propelled through adventures in time and in other universes, a long strange trip indeed.