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	Rudy Rucker - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Rudolf von Bitter Rucker (born March 22, 1946) is an American computer scientist and science fiction author, often included in lists of cyberpunk authors.
		He is best known for the novels in the Ware Tetralogy (the first two of which Software and Wetware both won Philip K. Dick Awards) as well as non-fiction books such as Geometry, Relativity and the Fourth Dimension and Infinity and the Mind.
		Although generally recognized as one of the early figures in cyberpunk, Rucker espoused an approach to writing he termed Transrealism.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Rudy_Rucker (257 words)

	John Orr reviews two Rudy Rucker books
		Rucker is so full of ideas, and has gotten so many of them into print, that it's easy to imagine he hasn't slept since he was two years old and first started thinking about the spatial and time relationships of the mobile rotating over his crib.
		As a mathematician Rucker has written extensively about the fourth dimension in non-fiction texts, and his fiction works are full of extra dimensions and parallel universes -- and creatures who inhabit and travel between them.
		Rucker's other recent book is "Gnarl!" a collection of science-fiction stories he wrote over the last 25 years, from "Jumpin' Jack Flash," written in 1976, to "The Square Root of Pythagoras," co-written with Paul Di Filippo in October.
	www.triviana.com /books/1rucker.htm (1180 words)

	Amazon.com: Books: White Light (Cortext : Science Fiction That Changed the World) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		Spaceland: A Novel of the Fourth Dimension by Rudy Rucker
		This novel belongs to the tradition of science fiction pioneered by H. Wells, where the science is the source of intrigue that adventures grow from and propel the protagonists.
		Rucker was stuck in a small women's college teaching mathematics during the composition of this book, and his feelings of being out-of-place are mixed with the illogical mathematics he was studying, resulting in a book with a disturbingly chaotic flow.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/1888869178?v=glance (2075 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.
		Unlike the fast-forward milieu of Rucker's "Ware" novels, "White Light" achieves his aim without the use of future technologies; the astral realms visited by the book's hero are a sort of internalized cyberspace predating the immersive electronic environments of William Gibson.
	www.mactonnies.com /rudyrucker.html (1338 words)

	Alibris: Rudy
		by Rucker, Rudy Von B. In the year 3003, nothing in the world is the same, except maybe that adolescents are still embarrassed by their parents.
		Rudy Rucker, two-time winner of the prestigious Philip K. Dick Award, is one of SF's most inventive and irreverent authors, exploring artificial life, chaos theory, and hacker culture.
		Rucker, the character, is given views of the future of technology and society, especially in California, by a man abducted by the inhabitants of a tiny flying saucer.
	www.alibris.com /search/books/author/Rudy (1262 words)

	HotWired: Club Wired - Rudy Rucker (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		Though Rudy Rucker is noted for the aggressive, rock-and-roll-fueled weirdness of his writing, he is also a true practitioner of Hugo Gernsback's ideal: science fiction as an educational tool.
		Rudy Rucker: My father used to tell me to be a Renaissance Man. By that he meant that I should major in science rather than in English or Phil as I kind of wanted to.
		Rudy Rucker: Femto is the Bureau of Standards prefix for 10 to the - 15, while nano is the prefix for 10 to the - 9.
	webmonkey.wired.com /talk/club/special/transcripts/97-07-22-rucker.html (4013 words)

	Watches-Realware (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		A leading mathmetician, computer scientist, and cyberpunk pioneer, Rudy Rucker writes novels that surprise and delight with an effervescent mix of cutting-edge science, raucous social satire, and deeply informed speculation into the nature and fate of humanity.
		This super-smart and wildly goofy work by Cyberpunk author Rudy Rucker is a hilarious and totally engrossing tale of electronic pestilence and conspiracy.
		Malcontent mathematics instructor Feliz Raymond's afternoon naps are the subject of Rudy Rucker's strange and delightful White Light.
	www.minihttpserver.net /z_watches/A_white_light_third_ed-156858198X.htm (521 words)

	Buy.com - As Above, So Below: A Novel of Peter Bruegel : Rudy Rucker : ISBN 076530404X
		Rucker took a job at a college in Virginia in 1980, and two years later, SOFTWARE won the Philip K. Dick Award.
		Grouped with cyberpunk writers like Bruce Sterling and William Gibson, Rucker refers to his own novels as "transrealism," the essence of which, he says, "is to write about one's real life in fantastic terms." In 1986, Rucker returned to teaching, moving to San Jose State University, where he formally entered the world of computer science.
		Small reproductions of Bruegel's paintings head each of the 16 chapters of this novel, which tells the story of the painter's life in a series of episodes, beginning with his apprenticeship as a young man through his successes as a master painter himself.
	www.buy.com /prod/As_Above_So_Below_A_Novel_of_Peter_Bruegel/q/loc/106/33799422.html (694 words)

	Dragon*Con Biography: [Dr. Rudy Rucker]
		Rudy Rucker is a professor, scientist, mathematician, author, physicist and cyberpunk.
		Although trained as a scientist, Rudy is far from being the typical stick-in-the-mud academic.
		Rudy is unusual in that his non-fiction (popular speculative mathematics books) has a great deal in common with his fiction.
	www.dragoncon.org /people/ruckerd.html (410 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)

	Rudy Rucker's Biography (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		White Light was picked up by Ace Books in the U.S., and by Virgin Books in the U.K. And then Ace bought Spacetime Donuts and Software as a package, and I was really a writer.
		The first recasts a traditional coming of age memoir as a UFO novel, the second is about my time as a mystical mathematician in Geneseo, while the third turns my two years in Germany into a tale of higher dimensions and nuclear terrorism.
		My SF novel, Realware, the fourth book in the Ware series was published as an Avon Eos book, in June, 2000. This is the fourth and the last (for the foreseeable future) of the Ware books.
	www.mathcs.sjsu.edu /faculty/rucker/biography.htm (2820 words)

	Powell's Books - Spaceland: A Novel of the Fourth Dimension by Rudy Rucker
		Rudy Rucker is a past master at turning mathematical concepts into rollicking science fiction adventure, from Spacetime Donuts and White Light to The Hacker and the Ants.
		Mathematician Rudy Rucker, a two-time winner of the Philip K. Dick Award, combines all his strengths in Spaceland, a wild novel about contact with beings who inhabit the fourth dimension.
		Rudy Rucker is a mathematician, computer scientist, professor and writer who has twice won the Philip K. Dick Award for best SF paperback original, and has published a number of successful popular books on mathematical subjects, including The Fourth Dimension and Infinity and the Mind.
	www.powells.com /cgi-bin/biblio?inkey=1-0765303671-2 (584 words)

	WHITE LIGHT by Rudy Rucker (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		Rudy Rucker is some kind of mad genius.
		A comic masterpiece influencing everyone from Bruce Sterling to Jonathan Lethem, White Light is one of the smartest, strangest, and most surreally-funny novels to come out of the early cyberpunk movement.
		Rudy Rucker is professor of computer science at San Jose State University.
	www.fourwallseightwindows.com /bookrucker3.html (374 words)

	Learn more about Rudy Rucker in the online encyclopedia. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		Learn more about Rudy Rucker in the online encyclopedia.
		Rudy Rucker (born March 22, 1946) is an American computer scientist and science fiction author, often included in lists of cyberpunk authors.
		He is best known for his novels Software and Wetware (both won Philip K. Dick Awards) as well as The Hacker and the Ants.
	www.onlineencyclopedia.org /r/ru/rudy_rucker.html (192 words)

	Software by Rudy Rucker, a cyberpunk novel
		If Rucker intended that, it was a questionable choice.) Worst of all, Rucker builds bopper Ralph Numbers up to be one of his two most interesting characters, then Ralph disappears midway through the story.
		Rucker's explanation of how Cobb created artificial intelligence by causing it to evolve through natural selection is interesting and the concept seems plausible.
		Rucker respects his readers enough to trust us to appreciate the urgency of these questions to Cobb and his fellow humans without explicitly harping on them and descending into melodrama.
	members.aol.com /firoane/rucker.htm (911 words)

	Amazon.com: Books: Spaceland: A Novel of the Fourth Dimension (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		This is because Spaceland is written by Rudy Rucker, a Silicon Valley professor of mathematics and computer science who is also a hard-SF writer with the most gonzo sensibility in science fiction.
		Rucker's satirical target is less timeless than the simple bead that Abbott drew on heirarchy and stratification: Silicon Valley society at its frenetic dot-com peak.
		What Rudy Rucker does best is to take a premise, build consequences on it, then tease out meta-consequences and meta meta consequences in a dizzying tower of speculation.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0765303671?v=glance (2193 words)

	John Shirley: Non-Fiction (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		Rucker's made no secret of the chemical experimentation back in the 60s and early 70s that informed some scenes in this book; the white light itself is, to some extent, a codification of a particular psychedelic experience.
		Like the math prof in WHITE LIGHT, Rucker was an assistant professor at a bucolic state college from which he was fired; but he scored a grant and went on to struggle with the continuum problem while he was writing the novel and reading Georg Cantor's philosophy of math in the original German.
		In WHITE LIGHT Rucker commandingly synthesizes mysticism, pop imagery, the Devil Himself, Jesus Christ, the great mathematicians and their ideas, "head culture", and even voodoo - into a novel that takes us on a wild journey to infinity, to the Absolute, and back again.
	www.darkecho.com /JohnShirley/rucker.html (1393 words)

	White Light: Or, What Is Cantor's Continuum Problem by Rudy Rucker (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		White Light: Or, What Is Cantor's Continuum Problem by Rudy Rucker
		White Light: Or, What Is Cantor's Continuum Problem
		A novel about a rogue university maths tutor, Felix Rayman, who engages in experiments with lucid dreams in an effort to access infinity.
	www.ffbooks.co.uk /n2/n10550.htm (95 words)

	Rudy's Blog at rudyrucker.com
		Original material on this blog is Copyright (C) Rudy Rucker 2004, 2005.
		This quote is (C) Copyright Rudy Rucker, 2004.
		It felt silly but nice sitting down in front of the vizzy --- there were some excited children on the screen just then, and it was almost like having noisy little Ruby and Sude at her side.
	www.rudyrucker.com /blog/index.php?m=12&y=04&d=29 (1784 words)

	Watches-Spaceland- A Novel of the Fourth Dimension (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		This is because Spaceland is written by Rudy Rucker, a Silicon Valley professor of mathematics and computer science who is also a hard-SF writer with the most gonzo sensibility in science fiction.--Cynthia Ward
		In 1884, an amiably eccentric clergyman and literary scholar named Edwin Abbott Abbott published an odd philosophical novel called Flatland, in which he explored such things as four-dimensional mathematics and gently satirized some of the orthodoxies of his time.
		Unless you're a mathematician, the chances of you reading any novels about geometry are probably slender.
	www.minihttpserver.net /z_watches/A_spaceland_a_novel_of-0765303671.htm (522 words)

	Works by Rudy Rucker (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		List of domestic and foreign agents for Rucker's books.
		Written by James Glieck, Josh Gordon, Rudy Rucker and John Walker.
		Originally released as CA Lab: Rudy Rucker's Cellular Automata Laboratory.
	www.mathcs.sjsu.edu /faculty/rucker/works.htm (404 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)

	Editorial: Cassandra Complex - Canons & Carnivores
		If a monstrous hell-beast suddenly appeared in a Hercule Poirot mystery novel we would expect there to be a rational, non-supernatural explanation for it, because the world we've been drawn into doesn't allow things outside the mundane, rational world of science and materialism.
		Conversely, we accept that such beasts are a part of Frodo Baggins' world, but if Gandalf were to pull out a mobile phone or arrive by helicopter, we would be 'thrown out of the story' - the illusion that we are witnessing events that happened, rather than reading a story, is shattered beyond repair.
		Rudy Rucker's excellent novel WHITE LIGHT, for example, makes no "sense" whatsoever in the sense of story that we expect; because Rucker is a mathematician, and WHITE LIGHT is at its heart a giant thought-experiment in problems of mathematics and logic.
	www.ninthart.com /display.php?article=676 (1373 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 novel White Light (1980), was followed by several other novels, including Spacetime Donuts (1981, his first novel), Software (1982), Wetware (1988) and The Hollow Earth (1990).
	ebbs.english.vt.edu /exper/kcramer/anth/Flatland.html (229 words)

	White Light (Axoplasm Books) (Rudy Von B. Rucker , John Shirley) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		White Light (Axoplasm Books) (Rudy Von B. Rucker, John Shirley)
		Rucker is a mathematician, mystic and weirdo who writes, like Philip Dick, about finding God in the gutter and this is probably his very best.
		It reminded me in parts of Philip K Dick, and like Dick the author seems to have enjoyed many substances.
	www.quickquid.com /a/uk/product/156858198X.htm (182 words)

	Internet Book List :: Book Information: White Light
		White Light is a hilarious and mind-bending exploration of time, space, and infinity.
		There he meets the beetle Franx, explores Hilbert's hotel, and climbs Mount On through increasing levels of infinity towards White Light.
		While reading this book, you'll meet characters familiar and fantastic, visit wonderfully imaginative places, and come away with an appreciation of just how big infinity is.
	www.iblist.com /book.php?id=1210 (124 words)

	Rudy Rucker (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		He writes a blend of Mathematical SF and Kerouac-tinged craziness which he calls 'transrealism', he has been known to associate with cyberpunks, and he all but worships Philip K Dick.
		His novel 'White Light' is an excellent tour of the mathematics of infinity, and it has Franz Kafka (in cockroach form) in it.
		The two Rudys (Rudies..?) have collaborated on at least one story:
	urchin.earth.li /cgi-bin/twic/wiki/view.pl?page=RudyRucker (64 words)

	Rudy Rucker - Summary Bibliography (Long Works) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		This work is licensed under a Creative Commons License.
		White Light: Or, What Is Cantor's Continuum Problem (277P) (1980)
		Spaceland: A Novel of the Fourth Dimension (2003)
	isfdb.tamu.edu /cgi-bin/ea.cgi?Rudy_Rucker (47 words)

	Textbooks by Rudy Rucker - Direct Textbook (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		Rudy Rucker - Princeton University Press - 0691001723
		Rudy Rucker - Houghton Mifflin Company - 0395468108
		Rudy V. Rucker - Houghton Mifflin (T) - 0395344204
	www.directtextbook.com /author/rudy-rucker (209 words)

	Freeware by Rudy V. B. Rucker Rudy Rucker - The Dark Spiral
		Freeware by Rudy V. Rucker Rudy Rucker - The Dark Spiral
		In Wetware the chip mold virus destroyed the sentient robots called boppers.
		When a moldie called Monique becomes ensnared in a grand plot that seems to be either the work of anti-moldie humans or anti-human moldies, everyone becomes involved in an effort to either save or destroy the Earth.
	www.darkspiral.com /item/038078159X (117 words)

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