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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: The Hollow Earth
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  • Cover of: Masterpieces of Fantasy and Wonder
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  • Cover of: Saucer wisdom
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  • Cover of: Wastelands 2: More Stories of the Apocalypse
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  • Cover of: Mondo 2000: a user's guide to the new edge
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  • Cover of: The secret of life
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  • Cover of: Jim and the Flims
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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: Moldies & meatbops: Three *ware novels : Software ; Wetware ; Freeware
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  • Cover of: The 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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  • Cover of: Artificial life lab
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American mathematician, computer scientist, science fiction author and philosopher

Born 22 March 1946

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Fiction, science fiction, general, Fiction, American Science fiction, Fiction, general, Mathematics, American Short stories, Fiction, short stories (single author), Future life, General, Long Now Manual for Civilization, Mathematicians, Philosophy, Quantum theory, Robots, Science Fiction, Science fiction, Short stories, 005.1, 20th century, American Contemporary Poetry, American Cyberpunk fiction, American Science Fiction And Fantasy, American Science fiction poetry, American fiction, American poetry

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Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849)

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20th century, 19e siècle, 19th century, 20e siècle

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Alternative names

  • Rudolf von Bitter Rucker
  • Rudy v. B. Rucker
  • Rudolf Rucker
  • Rudolf v. B. Rucker
  • Rudy von B. Rucker
  • Rudolph v. B. Rucker

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March 6, 2023 Edited by Stew Update bio.
March 5, 2023 Edited by bitnapper Edited without comment.
March 5, 2023 Edited by bitnapper merge authors
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April 1, 2008 Created by an anonymous user initial import