Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #2758195 in Books
• Published on: 1988-11
• Original language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• 130 pages

Customer Reviews

A powerful idea, years before its time
I first encountered Ramsey Dukes, or whomever you may like to call him, via his book "SSOTBME", which I reviewed for an alternative technology magazine when it was first published. It was a ground-breaking work that still stands up today.

It was thus with great pleasure that I accepted the offer to design and produce the original edition of "Words Made Flesh" in I think 1988, which is now superseded by the present edition.

The book discusses how our world might look if it was in fact a computer simulation, and part of the way it does so is to intertwine within the first few chapters an engaging little science fiction story. Today, the idea is quite widespread, not least as a result of the Matrix movies and their ilk, but instead of looking at effects, with this book you can look a good deal deeper.

Ramsey Dukes has a wonderful sense of humour, a suitable disregard for convention, and an incredible depth. Every one of his writings has something to tell us, on several different levels, and on paper he comes across as our very own British equivalent of Robert Anton Wilson.

This latest edition of WMF includes additional material that contributes helpfully and meaningfully to our understanding of the material, while adding useful more recent insights into the original text.

Like all Dukes' work, Words Made Flesh is well worth a good read.