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	Rudy Rucker - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Rudolf von Bitter Rucker (born March 22, 1946 in Louisville, Kentucky) is an American computer scientist and science fiction author, and is one of the founders of the cyberpunk literary movement.
		Rucker's scientific education (in mathematics and computer science) is not unusual for popular science fiction authors.
		Rucker is a lineal descendant of the philosopher Georg Hegel.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Rudy_Rucker (514 words)

	Rudy Rucker Book Reviews
		Rucker was -- and is -- perhaps the nascent sub-genre's premier nonconformist: "Master of Space and Time" manages to offer the expected preoccupation with heady concepts and end on a contemplative note that generates an authentic sense of wonder.
		Rucker supplies a plot-line that's unnerving, mind-bending and characteristically zany: Joe Cube, a would-be electronics bigshot suffering from a shaky marriage, gets the deal of a lifetime from a four-dimensional matriarch named Momo, who wants him to manufacture cellphones that bypass cell towers by broadcasting into the fourth dimension.
		Rucker's 4-D characters reminded me a bit of Kurt Vonnegut's time-tripping Tralfalmadorians while the various terrestrials, with their fragilities and needs, are comparable to Philip K. Dick's lovingly rendered everyday people.
	www.mactonnies.com /rudyrucker.html (1338 words)

	Rudy Rucker: bio and encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Rudy von Bitter Rucker (born March 22, EHandler: no quick summary.
		White Light White Light (Rudy Rucker novel) quick summary:
		White light is a work of science fiction by rudy rucker published in 1980 by ace books....
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/r/ru/rudy_rucker.htm (729 words)

	Cellular Automata Laboratory
		The first edition of CelLab was developed by Rudy Rucker and John Walker in 1988 and 1989 when both were working in the Autodesk research lab.
		Rudy and John explored the idea of a new edition with several publishers, but none seemed to be interested.
		Rudy Rucker, the author of thirteen books of science-fiction and popular mathematics, is Professor of Mathematics and Computer Science at San Jose State University.
	www.fourmilab.ch /cellab (1315 words)

	WHITE LIGHT by Rudy Rucker (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		"Rucker is a mathematician bewitched by the absurdity of the universe implied in quantum theory, and a writer possessed of a brilliantly witty pen." — Publishers Weekly
		Rudy Rucker is some kind of mad genius.
		Rudy Rucker is professor of computer science at San Jose State University.
	www.4w8w.com /bookrucker3.html (374 words)

	Rudy Rucker
		Rudy Rucker is an American mathematician and science fiction writer.
		Alongside John Shirley, Bruce Sterling, and others, Rucker is often credited as a founding father of cyberpunk, the pessimistic hybrid of film noir and science fiction.
		At its best, which is usually, Rucker's fiction is a fun mix of philosophy and physics with fl comedy, religion, and a healthy dose of drugs and vulgarity.
	www.nndb.com /people/716/000023647 (246 words)

	Metroactive Books \| Rudy Rucker
		Broadly speaking, the movement was spawned in the early 1980s with Rucker, William Gibson, Bruce Sterling and John Shirley and then evolved in the 1990s to incorporate various fringe counterculture elements of the digital revolution.
		Rucker's next novel, Frek and the Elixir, comes out in 2004, and he's also working on a proposal for a nonfiction book about computers and the mind with a working title of The Lifebox, the Seashell and the Soul: Computation and Reality.
		Rucker is bigger in Japan than he is in his own home town, and sometimes he feels like the most famous unknown person in San Jose.
	www.metroactive.com /papers/metro/08.07.03/rucker-0332.html (4093 words)

	frontwheeldrive.com: rudy rucker interview (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Rudy Rucker has a lot of things on his mind.
		Rudy Rucker: There's a tendency to think that maybe if we can just throw enough hardware at the AI problem, then evolution can take care of the rest.
		So Saucer Wisdom features a main character named "Rudy Rucker." Rudy is approached by a man named Frank Shook who's been frequently abducted by flying saucers.
	frontwheeldrive.com /rudy_rucker.html (1561 words)

	Everything comes down to 1 and 0
		Though Rucker defends this so-called "computational worldview" with all the zeal of a recent convert, his enthusiasm never becomes grating.
		The upshot, Rucker says, is that while existence may be "automated" in the sense that there are pre-existing rules governing how it plays out, these rules don't give rise to anything resembling dull uniformity.
		In trying to fit all of reality within the boundaries of his thesis, he must perform a sort of Procrustean surgery, going to lengths he admits are sometimes "cumbersome" to prove that everything is governed by some computational rule.
	sfgate.com /cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2005/11/13/RVG33FIIB81.DTL (815 words)

	Rudy Rucker
		Cyberpunk author Rudy Rucker was born 22 in March 1946 in Louisville, Kentucky, United States.
		Rucker is a co-editor of a scientific journal called Speculations in Science and Technology.
		Rucker has edited an anthology called Speculations on the Fourth Dimension: Selected Writings of C.H.Hinton (Dover-Constable), and another called Mathenauts.
	project.cyberpunk.ru /idb/rudyrucker.html (146 words)

	Just Like Himself, Only More So by Paul Di Filippo - infinity plus non-fiction (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Rudy acknowledges my boosterism with a humble British Royal hand-wag, all the while innocently grinning like the Cheshire Cat--if that Cat ever was costumed like a goosefeather-buffered refugee from the Great Blizzard of 1978.
		As for the practical lesson Rudy's spin on the ice taught me, it was even simpler: Trust the Rudester, even when it does not appear he knows what he's doing.
		Rudy's delight at introducing all his friends to the exotic cuisine of the place was palpable.
	www.infinityplus.co.uk /nonfiction/pdif_rudy.htm (874 words)

	The SF Site Series Review: Rudy Rucker Trio
		Born in Louisville, KY, Rudy Rucker went to private schools in Louisville then to Swarthmore College, majoring in Mathematics and to Rutgers University for his Master's and Ph.D. in Mathematics.
		But wait, Rudy Rucker was an assistant professor at SUCAS (really) Geneseo in upstate NY, 1972-78.
		As Rucker notes in his afterword, White Light has "nice visualizations of infinity, fine evocations of the time when it was written, heartfelt attempts to break through to ultimate truth, good surreal imagery, and lots of laughs." White Light has been on my to read list for years, and I'm pleased to see it available.
	www.sfsite.com /05a/wite32.htm (532 words)

	Book review of Rudy Rucker (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		But the mathematician Rudy Rucker also deals with the nature of mind.
		Rucker asks: "Is what you thought yesterday still part of your mind?" Rucker believes in a world of ideas separate from the mental and the physical.
		Rucker believes that conscious machines could be built, following an observation of Godel himself, that we cannot build a machine that has our mathematical intuition but such a machine can exist and can be discovered by humans.
	www.thymos.com /mind/rucker.html (235 words)

	Upcoming.org: author Rudy Rucker at Booksmith (Tuesday, March 7, 2006) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		In other words, it's about what gnarly computation taught Rudy Rucker about ultimate reality, the meaning of life, and how to be happy.
		Rudy Rucker is a mathematician, novelist, software engineer and former professor of computer science at San Jose State University.
		Rucker is considered one of the core cyberpunk authors, and is a two-time winner of the Philip K. Dick Award.
	upcoming.org /event/56563 (416 words)

	eBay - rudy rucker, Freeware, Fiction Books items on eBay.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Rucker, Rudy Von B.~GEOMETRY RELATIVITY & THE 4TH NEW
		NEW - Frek and the Elixir by Rudy Rucker
		Frek and the Elixir by Rudy Rucker (2005)
	search-desc.ebay.com /search/search.dll?query=rudy+rucker&newu=1&krd=1 (387 words)

	Amazon.com: The Hacker and the Ants: Books: Rudy Rucker (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Rucker (The Hollow Earth) defines each computer-related term that might confuse the reader, ensuring that everyone will be able to understand the travails Rugby endures after he is blamed for the release of the TV-disrupting daemons.
		Rucker must have had a really bad marriage as he uses his wife in his books rather negatively.
		I prefer the surrealism of Software (which also packs more of a philosophic punch) but I did enjoy reading this book--as much for the slacker main character as for the AI inspired plot--and would recommend it over Software for those who are mainly concerned about the science in their science fiction.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0688134165?v=glance (1732 words)

	SS > NF reviews > Rudy Rucker (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Rucker dubs chaotic -- "complicated but not random" -- systems 'gnarly' (from "a knot in the wood of a tree", by way of California surfer slang for "complicated surf conditions").
		This book-and-disc package explains and implements various a-life programs, for you to play with, experiment with, and help develop your intuition about the behaviour of 'gnarly' systems.
		But it all feels rather trivial and rushed -- not up to Rucker's usual standard at all.
	www-users.cs.york.ac.uk /susan/bib/nf/r/rucker.htm (82 words)

	Rucker - John Anthony Rucker, First Lieutenant, United States Army
		Dave Rucker batting, fielding and pitching major league baseball lifetime statistics for each season and his career, and a list of any post-season awards he
		Nap Rucker batting, fielding and pitching major league baseball lifetime statistics for each season and his career, and a list of any post-season awards he
		Lieutenant John A. Rucker, was a professional cavalry officer serving with the United States Army in Arizona Territory
	www.spiderarea.com /q/rucker.htm (237 words)

	frontwheeldrive.com: rudy rucker revisited
		Since that time, Dr. Rucker has been hacking on a video game programming toolkit called the Pop Framework and keeping a low profile on the science fiction scene.
		Dr. Rucker's going to need four slots on the bookshelves this year to hold his latest works: the computer science textbook Software Engineering and Computer Games, a new science fiction novel Spaceland, a historical novel As Above So Below, and a reissue of The Hacker and The Ants are all coming online in 2002.
		Rudy Rucker: For the last few years, I've been putting most of my energy into computer game programming
	www.frontwheeldrive.com /rudy_rucker_2.html (3129 words)

	The Infinite Matrix \| Rudy Rucker \| The Men in the Back Room at the Country Club
		Rudy Rucker the Elder, writer, mathematician, and computer scientist, is one of the great, weird, untamed minds of contemporary science fiction.
		Rudy Rucker the Younger, although he had no apparent part in this story, is also a force to be reckoned with.
		We also published an excerpt from the elder Rudy's novel Spaceland in 2002, of which there is nothing left on site but a spicy illustration by his friend Paul Mavrides.
	www.infinitematrix.net /stories/shorts/men_in_bracc.html (9231 words)

	GNARL! by Rudy Rucker (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Multitalented creature though he is — mathematician, computer scientist, essayist — Rudy Rucker is best known for his groundbreaking science fiction.
		And yet it has been seventeen years since Rucker's last major story collection.
		A classic such as "The Fifty-Seventh Franz Kafka," a meditation on cloning that is part horror, part farce, is side-by-side with a "pseudo-memoir" — a Ruckerian specialty — "The Indian Rope Trick Explained." Throughout, there is the unique Rucker mix: cutting-edge physics, a wild but perversely logical imagination, and a decidedly punk attitude.
	www.4w8w.com /bookrucker2.html (261 words)

	Rudy Rucker on GigaDial Public
		Talks and readings by writer Rudy Rucker, with occasional interviews as well.
		It is intended to be viewed in a newsreader or syndicated to another site, subject to copyright and fair use.
		A story on multiple universes, introducing Chapter Two of Rudy Rucker, The Lifebox, the Seashell, and the Soul, see www.rudyrucker.com/lifebox.
	feeds.feedburner.com /rudyrucker (1571 words)

	Cellab Downloads from Rudy Rucker's Website
		This is a public domain freeware program by John Walker and Rudy Rucker.
		The Cellab Cellular Automata Laboratory is the Windows version of a package originally called CA Lab: the Rudy Rucker Cellular Automata Laboratory, and sold by Autodesk, Inc. The main Cellab program JC.EXE was written by John Walker and includes some rules by Rudy Rucker.
		The Cellular Automata Laboratory text is distributed as shareware which remains under the copyright (C) 1997 Rudy Rucker and John Walker, and which cannot be used for any commercial purpose without written permission from Rucker and Walker.
	www.cs.sjsu.edu /faculty/rucker/cellab.htm (383 words)

	Rudy's Blog at rudyrucker.com
		Original material on this blog is Copyright (C) Rudy Rucker 2006.
		My son Rudy gave me one of these figures before I started Frek, and when I was casting about for how some particular aliens might look, I used the figure.
		Coop says that the shape of this figure is in fact designed to represent a boy who was very greedy about hoarding his money that his head turned into a coin purse!
	www.rudyrucker.com /blog (2281 words)

	Yamzy - rudy - rudy project home com rucker nashua (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Rudy Gonzales "Idaho's Official Cowboy Entertainer, Cowboy Poet, & Western Humorist" One of the Rudy will entertain with original and traditional cowboy humor, poetry, and old cowboy songs.
		Rudy's Music is located in New York City on 48th Street's historic music row.
		There are two Rudy Ruckers: father and son.
	www.yamzy.us /rudy.htm (577 words)

	Rudy Rucker :: big :: little
		Latest book by Rudy Rucker, Sr.: The Lifebox, the Seashell, and the Soul.
		Jenna and Me, a subversive political-satirical science-fiction story by Rudy Rucker, Sr., and Rudy Rucker, Jr., in the
		This site and various other Rudy Rucker, Sr., sites are hosted by Monkeybrains.
	www.rudyrucker.com (139 words)

	Rudy Rucker (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		The reading was at The New College on Valencia St. in San Francisco, under the aegis of the "SF in SF" series of monthly readings organized by Terry Bisson and Adam Cornford.
		Includes discussion of my ambivalence about how to end the book, panpsychism, ontolgies, unsolvability, computational equivalence, unpredictability, undecidability, and my six principles on how to be happy.
		This short-short science fiction story, from my nonfiction book, The Lifebox, the Seashell, and the Soul (http://www.rudyrucker.com/lifebox), illustrates some questions about whether every thinkable process is physically realizable, and whether every computation is thinkable.
	www.gigadial.net /public/station/17434 (639 words)

	Ms. Found in a Copy of Flatland by Rudy Rucker
		His stories tend toward hard sf and then bounce and veer in a variety of directions, sometimes into the range of cyberpunk.
		But Rucker remains an individualist; a successful popular science writer, sometime college professor, sf writer who careens and caroms from one sf form to another.
		His work is energetic and imaginative; New Wave and hard sf attitudes coexist within it.
	ebbs.english.vt.edu /exper/kcramer/anth/Flatland.html (229 words)

	The SF Site Featured Review: Freeware
		Freeware follows Rudy Rucker's earlier novels Software (1982) and Wetware (1988), with which it shares a fairly roomy near-future timeline and a number of interesting characters.
		The net effect for those who (like me) haven't read the first two books is a sense of a rich background story that never really trips up the narrative.
		No mean feat, but Rucker pulls it off.
	www.sfsite.com /05b/freewar1.htm (522 words)

	Rudy Rucker's Biography
		I worked on three shipped software products at Autodesk: CA Lab: Rudy Rucker's Cellular Automata Laboratory, James Gleick's CHAOS: The Software, and BOPPERS: Artificial Life Laboratory.
		I wrote an SF story about Jenna Bush called "Jenna and Me" with my son Rudy Rucker, Jr, but we had trouble getting it published!
		By the way, Rucker is probably a Flemish name, so just call me Rudy the Elder.
	www.cs.sjsu.edu /faculty/rucker/biography.htm (2820 words)

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