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Rudy Rucker


Born
in Louisville, Kentucky, The United States
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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Sqinks Kick

Rudy’s New Book! I’m at the tail  end of a four-week campaign to raise money for publishing my latest novel, Sqinks. Published via my very own indie press,  which is Transreal Books. You can see what it’s all about — and perhaps pitch in — at the book’s Kickstarter page…but it’s only live for a […]

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Average rating: 3.8 · 32,204 ratings · 2,367 reviews · 194 distinct worksSimilar authors
Software (Ware, #1)

3.74 avg rating — 4,343 ratings — published 1982 — 25 editions
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Wetware (Ware #2)

3.80 avg rating — 2,291 ratings — published 1988 — 15 editions
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Freeware (Ware #3)

3.75 avg rating — 1,279 ratings — published 1997 — 8 editions
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The Ware Tetralogy (Ware, #...

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Postsingular

3.61 avg rating — 1,003 ratings — published 2007 — 15 editions
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Infinity and the Mind: The ...

4.01 avg rating — 840 ratings — published 1981 — 26 editions
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The Fourth Dimension: A Gui...

4.15 avg rating — 793 ratings — published 1984 — 4 editions
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Realware (Ware #4)

3.72 avg rating — 852 ratings — published 2000 — 6 editions
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White Light

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3.88 avg rating — 768 ratings — published 1980 — 19 editions
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3.62 avg rating — 631 ratings — published 1994
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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.”
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“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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