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Rudy Rucker

Rudolf "Rudy" von Bitter Rucker is a writer and a mathematician who worked for twenty years as a Silicon Valley computer science professor, and published a number of software packages.

Rucker is regarded as contemporary master of science-fiction, and received the Philip K. Dick award twice. His forty published books include novels, collections, and non-fiction books on the fourth dimension, infinity, and the meaning of computation.

A founder of the cyberpunk school of science-fiction, Rucker also writes SF in a realistic style known as transrealism. His 2006 Mathematicians in Love was an example of a transreal novel. His early cyberpunk four-book series was republished in 2010 as The Ware Tetralogy.

Rucker’s 2007 novel, Postsingular was something of a return to the cyberpunk style, as was the 2009 sequel, Hylozoic, in which every object on Earth comes to life. Rucker’s autobiography, Nested Scrolls, appeared in 2011. Recent novels include Turing & Burroughs, Return to the Hollow Earth, and Million Mile Road Trip.

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American mathematician, computer scientist, science fiction author and philosopher

Born 22 March 1946

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  • Cover of: The fourth dimension: [and how to get there]

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  • Cover of: White Light: Or, What Is Cantor's Continuum Problem

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  • Cover of: Mind tools: the five levels of mathematical reality

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  • Cover of: Software
    First published in 1982 6 editions in 1 language — 4 previewable Cover of edition software0000ruck_i4s9 Cover of edition software0000ruck Cover of edition software00ruck_254

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  • Cover of: The Hollow Earth
    First published in 1990 6 editions in 1 language — 1 previewable

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  • Cover of: Masterpieces of Fantasy and Wonder

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  • Cover of: Geometry, relativity, and the fourth dimension
    First published in 1977 4 editions in 1 language — 2 previewable Cover of edition geometryrelativi01ruck

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    First published in 1988 4 editions in 1 language — 1 previewable

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  • Cover of: Surfing the Gnarl
    First published in 2012 4 editions in 1 language — 1 previewable

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  • Cover of: Mondo 2000: a user's guide to the new edge

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  • Cover of: Wastelands 2: More Stories of the Apocalypse

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  • Cover of: Saucer wisdom
    First published in 1999 4 editions in 1 language — 1 previewable

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  • Cover of: Gnarl!: stories
    First published in 1999 3 editions in 1 language — 1 previewable

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  • Cover of: The secret of life
    First published in 1985 3 editions in 1 language — 1 previewable

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    First published in 2011 3 editions in 1 language — 1 previewable

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  • Cover of: Mathematicians in Love
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  • Cover of: Mathenauts: Tales of Mathematical Wonder

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  • Cover of: All the visions ; Space Baltic
    First published in 1990 2 editions in 1 language — 1 previewable

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  • Cover of: Lifebox, the Seashell, and the Soul: What Gnarly Computation Taught Me About Ultimate Reality, the Meaning of Life, and How to Be Happy

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American mathematician, computer scientist, science fiction author and philosopher

Born 22 March 1946

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