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Rudy Rucker

22 March 1946 -

Rudy 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 thirty published books include both novels 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, , appeared in 2011. Recent novels include Jim and the Flims, Turing & Burroughs, and The Big Aha.

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Protected DAISY, Accessible book, In library, Fiction, Fourth dimension, American Science fiction, Mathematics, Internet Archive Wishlist, Set theory, American poetry, Artificial intelligence, Computer industry, Geometry, Non-Euclidean, Géométrie non-euclidienne, Infinite, Mathematicians, Niet-Euclidische meetkunde, Philosophy, Quatrième dimension, Relativiteitstheorie, Relativity (Physics), Relativité (Physique), Robots, Ruimte-tijd-theorie, Symbolic and mathematical Logic
Places
Flanders (Belgium), Rome (Italy)
People
Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849), Pieter Bruegel (ca. 1525-1569), Rudy v. B. Rucker (1946-)
Time
20th century

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Alternative names

  • Rudolf von Bitter Rucker
  • Rudy V. B. Rucker
  • Rudy v .B Rucker
  • Rudy v. B Rucker
  • Rucker, Rudy v.B. (Rudy von Bitter), 1946-
  • Rucker, Rudolf v. B. (Rudy von Bitter), 1946-

History Created April 1, 2008 · 6 revisions Download catalog record: RDF / JSON

March 31, 2017 Edited by Clean Up Bot add VIAF and wikidata ID
June 26, 2015 Edited by Ludovicus Added author photo and information
June 26, 2015 Edited by Ludovicus Added new photo
November 20, 2010 Edited by Alan Millar merge authors
April 1, 2008 Created by an anonymous user initial import