Rudy Rucker is a writer and a mathematician who worked for twenty years as a Silicon Valley computer science professor. He 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, often including himself as a character. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.
Praise for Saucer Wisdom
“A wild and exhilarating ride through the next 2,000 years of human
history, throwing up enough bizarre concepts to sustain two or
three careers of SF writing . . . A pop-science book like no
other.” —Locus
“We have seen the future and it crawls, swims, teems with billions
of soft, sentient piezoplastic beasts—a brave new biotech world
where Rucker-revealed secrets of immortality, space travel and
congress with aliens are as readily available as mushroom pizzas or
a bigger hard drive. Saucer Wisdom soars.” —Nick Herbert, author of
Quantum Reality
“Saucer Wisdom is absolutely one of the best books of the year.
Rucker has . . . grown up, elucidating the wild-eyed, gonzo ideas
of his youth with the clear-eyed, well-honed craft of a mature
writer at his creative peak.” —NOVA Express
“Brilliantly funny, prescient, and as fully engaging as a
coffee-fueled late-night conversation with a slightly manic genius
. . . It seems that ‘the William S. Burroughs of cyberpunk’ can’t
help but write good books.” —Amazon.com
Praise for Rudy Rucker
“Rudy Rucker should be declared a National Treasure of American
Science Fiction. Someone simultaneously channeling Kurt Gödel and
Lenny Bruce might start to approximate full-on Ruckerian
warp-space, but without the sweet, human, splendidly goofy
Rudy-ness at the core of the singularity.” —William Gibson
“Rucker’s writing is great like the Ramones are great: a genre
stripped to its essence, attitude up the wazoo, and cartoon
sentiments that reek of identifiable lives and issues. Wild math
you can get elsewhere, but no one does the cyber version of beatnik
glory quite like Rucker. ” —New York Review of Science Fiction
“For some two decades now, since the publication of his first
novel, White Light, Rucker has combined an easygoing, trippy style
influenced by the Beats with a deep engagement with knotty (or
‘gnarly,’ to employ one of his favorite terms) intellectual
conceits, based mainly in mathematics. In the typical Rucker novel,
likably eccentric characters—who run the gamut from brilliant to
near-certifiable—encounter aspects of the universe that confirm
that life is weirder than we can imagine. ” —The Washington
Post
“Rudy Rucker is the most consistently brilliant imagination working
in SF today. ” — Charles Stross, author of The Laundry Files
“Reading a Rudy Rucker book is like finding Poe, Kerouac, Lewis
Carroll, and Philip K. Dick parked on your driveway in a topless
’57 Caddy . . . and telling you they’re taking you for a RIDE. The
funniest science fiction author around. ” —Sci-Fi Universe
“Rucker [gives you] more ideas per chapter than most authors use in
an entire novel. ” —San Francisco Chronicle
Praise for Saucer Wisdom
“A wild and exhilarating ride through the next 2,000 years of human
history, throwing up enough bizarre concepts to sustain two or
three careers of SF writing . . . A pop-science book like no
other.” —Locus
“We have seen the future and it crawls, swims, teems with billions
of soft, sentient piezoplastic beasts—a brave new biotech world
where Rucker-revealed secrets of immortality, space travel and
congress with aliens are as readily available as mushroom pizzas or
a bigger hard drive. Saucer Wisdom soars.” —Nick Herbert, author of
Quantum Reality
“Saucer Wisdom is absolutely one of the best books of the year.
Rucker has . . . grown up, elucidating the wild-eyed, gonzo ideas
of his youth with the clear-eyed, well-honed craft of a mature
writer at his creative peak.” —NOVA Express
“Brilliantly funny, prescient, and as fully engaging as a
coffee-fueled late-night conversation with a slightly manic genius
. . . It seems that ‘the William S. Burroughs of cyberpunk’ can’t
help but write good books.” —Amazon.com
Praise for Rudy Rucker
“Rudy Rucker should be declared a National Treasure of American
Science Fiction. Someone simultaneously channeling Kurt Gödel and
Lenny Bruce might start to approximate full-on Ruckerian
warp-space, but without the sweet, human, splendidly goofy
Rudy-ness at the core of the singularity.” —William Gibson
“Rucker’s writing is great like the Ramones are great: a genre
stripped to its essence, attitude up the wazoo, and cartoon
sentiments that reek of identifiable lives and issues. Wild math
you can get elsewhere, but no one does the cyber version of beatnik
glory quite like Rucker. ” —New York Review of Science Fiction
“For some two decades now, since the publication of his first
novel, White Light, Rucker has combined an easygoing, trippy style
influenced by the Beats with a deep engagement with knotty (or
‘gnarly,’ to employ one of his favorite terms) intellectual
conceits, based mainly in mathematics. In the typical Rucker novel,
likably eccentric characters—who run the gamut from brilliant to
near-certifiable—encounter aspects of the universe that confirm
that life is weirder than we can imagine. ” —The Washington
Post
“Rudy Rucker is the most consistently brilliant imagination working
in SF today. ” — Charles Stross, author of The Laundry Files
“Reading a Rudy Rucker book is like finding Poe, Kerouac, Lewis
Carroll, and Philip K. Dick parked on your driveway in a topless
’57 Caddy . . . and telling you they’re taking you for a RIDE. The
funniest science fiction author around. ” —Sci-Fi Universe
“Rucker [gives you] more ideas per chapter than most authors use in
an entire novel. ” —San Francisco Chronicle
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