March 31, 2017 | History

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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Infinity and the mind
4 editions - first published in 1982 DAISY
Software
3 editions - first published in 1982 DAISY
Infinity and the Mind: The Science and Philosophy of the Infinite (Princeton Science Library)
3 editions - first published in 1983 DAISY
Master of Space and Time
3 editions - first published in 2007
The hacker and the ants
3 editions - first published in 1994 Borrow
The fourth dimension
3 editions - first published in 1984 Borrow
Spaceland: A Novel of the Fourth Dimension
3 editions - first published in 2002 Borrow
The Hollow Earth: The Narrative of Mason Algiers Reynolds of Virginia
2 editions - first published in 1992
The Lifebox, the Seashell, and the Soul: What Gnarly Computation Taught Me About Ultimate Reality, the Meaning of Life, and How to Be Happy
2 editions - first published in 2005
Seek! Selected Nonfiction
2 editions - first published in 1999
La Quatrième dimension
2 editions - first published in 1984
The secret of life
2 editions - first published in 1985
Mondo 2000: A User's Guide to the New Edge: Cyberpunk, Virtual Reality, Wetware, Designer Aphrodisiacs, Artificial Life, Techno-Erotic Paganism, an
2 editions - first published in 1992 DAISY
The 4th Dimension: Toward a Geometry of Higher Reality
2 editions - first published in 1984
All the Visions/Space Baltic/the Secret of Life (Ocean View Doubles)
1 edition - first published in 1990
Wetware
1 edition - first published in 1997 DAISY
Moldies & meatbops: Three *ware novels
1 edition - first published in 1997
Infinity and the Mind
1 edition - first published in 1982
All the visions
1 edition - first published in 1991
Live robots
1 edition - first published in 1994
Software engineering and computer games
1 edition - first published in 2002
Wetware
1 edition - first published in 1988
Master of space and time
1 edition - first published in 1984
Transreal!
1 edition - first published in 1991
Frek and the elixir
1 edition - first published in 2004 DAISY
Mad professor
1 edition - first published in 2007
Freeware
1 edition - first published in 1997 Borrow
Software
1 edition - first published in 1997
As above, so below
1 edition - first published in 2002
Mind tools
1 edition - first published in 1987
Spaceland
1 edition - first published in 2002
Hylozoic
1 edition - first published in 2009
Saucer wisdom
1 edition - first published in 1999
Infinity and the mind
1 edition
Mathenauts: Tales of Mathematical Wonder
1 edition - first published in 1987
Postsingular
1 edition - first published in 2007
Master of Space and Time
1 edition - first published in 2005
Mathematicians in Love
1 edition - first published in 2006
Maître de l'espace et du temps
1 edition - first published in 1986
La quatrième dimension
1 edition - first published in 2001
The UFO Show
1 edition - first published in 2001
Spacetime Donuts
1 edition - first published in 1981
Mad Professor: The Uncollected Short Stories of Rudy Rucker
1 edition - first published in 2006
The Sex Sphere
1 edition - first published in 1983
Hylozoic
1 edition - first published in 2010
57th Franz Kafka
1 edition - first published in 1983
Moldies and Meatbops Three Ware Novels
1 edition
Freeware
1 edition - first published in 1998
As Above, So Below: A Novel of Peter Bruegel
1 edition - first published in 2003 Borrow
Software
1 edition - first published in 1982 Borrow
Mathenauts
1 edition - first published in 1987 Borrow
The hollow earth
1 edition - first published in 1990
Seek!
1 edition - first published in 1999 Borrow
ALIEN TONGUE (The Next Wave, Book 2)
1 edition - first published in 1991 DAISY
De Vierde Dimensie
1 edition - first published in 1985
White Light: Or, What Is Cantor's Continuum Problem (277p)
1 edition - first published in 1980 Borrow
Geometry, relativity, and the fourth dimension
1 edition DAISY
Nested scrolls
1 edition - first published in 2011
Realware
1 edition - first published in 2000 Borrow
Master of space and time
1 edition - first published in 1985 DAISY
Gnarl!
1 edition - first published in 2000 Borrow
Artificial life lab
1 edition - first published in 1993 Borrow
White Light
1 edition - first published in 2001
Master of space and time
1 edition - first published in 1985 DAISY
Jim And The Flims A Novel
1 edition - first published in 2011
Surfing the Gnarl Outspoken Authors
1 edition - first published in 2012
Geometry, relativity, and the fourth dimension
1 edition - first published in 1977 Read
The ware tetralogy
1 edition - first published in 2010 DAISY

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-

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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
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