Rudy Rucker





Rudy Rucker

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March 22, 1946

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Rudolf von Bitter Rucker is an American mathematician, computer scientist, science fiction author, and one of the founders of the cyberpunk genre. He is best known for his Ware Tetralogy, the first two of which won Philip K. Dick awards. Presently, Rudy Rucker edits the science fiction webzine Flurb.


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More photo clearance today with whatever comments come into my head.



I like how the wideangle lens has so much depth of field. That five-sided mirror has always caught my fancy. Almost like something you’d see in a ghost story. There was a time in high-school when I’d seen too many scary episodes of “Outer Limits” that I was scared of things coming out of mirrors. And of disembodied hands.



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Average rating: 3.81 · 11,609 ratings · 684 reviews · 83 distinct works · Similar authors
Software (Ware, #1)
3.73 of 5 stars 3.73 avg rating — 1,599 ratings — published 1982 — 8 editions
Wetware (Ware, #2)
3.8 of 5 stars 3.80 avg rating — 765 ratings — published 1988 — 6 editions
Freeware (Ware, #3)
3.75 of 5 stars 3.75 avg rating — 518 ratings — published 1997 — 4 editions
Postsingular
3.57 of 5 stars 3.57 avg rating — 515 ratings — published 2007 — 6 editions
Realware (Ware, #4)
3.81 of 5 stars 3.81 avg rating — 350 ratings — published 2000 — 3 editions
White Light
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3.89 of 5 stars 3.89 avg rating — 336 ratings — published 1980 — 5 editions
The Hacker and the Ants
3.58 of 5 stars 3.58 avg rating — 299 ratings — published 1994 — 8 editions
Infinity and the Mind: The ...
3.93 of 5 stars 3.93 avg rating — 271 ratings7 editions
The Ware Tetralogy (Ware, #...
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3.79 of 5 stars 3.79 avg rating — 238 ratings — published 2010 — 3 editions
Mathematicians in Love
3.42 of 5 stars 3.42 avg rating — 258 ratings — published 2006 — 3 editions
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“For me, the best thing about Cyberpunk is that it taught me how to enjoy shopping malls, which used to terrify me. Now I just imagine the whole thing is two miles below the moon’s surface, and that half the people’s right-brains have been eaten by roboticized steel rats. And suddenly it’s interesting again.”
Rudy Rucker

“The simple process of eating and breathing weave all of us together into a vast four-dimensional array. No matter how isolated you may sometimes feel, no matter how lonely, you are never really cut off from the whole.”
Rudy Rucker

“Even if we become glowing clouds of ectoplasm, there's going to be something we're competing for - and most of us will feel as though we're getting screwed.”
Rudy Rucker, Year Million: Science at the Far Edge of Knowledge

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