St. Xavier High School Swarthmore College (BA) Rutgers University (MS, PhD)
Occupation
Author
Known for
Ware Tetralogy
Spouse
Sylvia Rucker
(m. 1967; died 2023)
Relatives
G. W. F. Hegel (four generations removed)
Website
Rudy Rucker
Rudolf von Bitter Rucker (/ˈrʌkər/; born March 22, 1946) is an American mathematician,[1] computer scientist, science fiction author,[2] and one of the founders of the cyberpunk literary movement. The author of both fiction and non-fiction, he is best known for the novels in the Ware Tetralogy, the first two of which (Software and Wetware) both won Philip K. Dick Awards. He edited the science fiction webzine Flurb until its closure in 2014.
^Jonas, Gerald (May 4, 1997). "Science Fiction". The New York Times.
^Jonas, Gerald (September 12, 2004). "Interstellar Serial Killer". The New York Times.
p. 290 "Family tree of Rucker's mother's brother, Rudolf von Bitter" (PDF). rudyrucker.com. "RudyRucker". NNDB. Rucker, Rudy (December 11, 2012). Nested...
higher operations), has gained dominance. It was also popularized in RudyRucker's Infinity and the Mind. The term superexponentiation was published by...
novel. Other influential cyberpunk writers included Bruce Sterling and RudyRucker. The Japanese cyberpunk subgenre began in 1982 with the debut of Katsuhiro...
January 2015. "RudyRucker, Notes" (PDF). p. 54. Retrieved 27 January 2015. Rucker, Rudy (11 December 2012). Rudolf von Bitter Rucker, As Above So Below...
of Flatland" by RudyRucker (1983) The Planiverse by A. K. Dewdney (1984) Flatterland by Ian Stewart (2001) Spaceland by RudyRucker (2002) VAS: An Opera...
introduction to excitable media Java applets that show excitable media in 0, 1, and 2D CAPOW software by RudyRucker contains several excitable media models....
from their self-titled debut album White Light (novel), a 1980 novel by RudyRucker "White Light" (The 4400) White Light, a 1991 film directed by Al Waxman...
applied to the works of William Gibson, Bruce Sterling, John Shirley, RudyRucker, Michael Swanwick, Pat Cadigan, Lewis Shiner, Richard Kadrey, and others...
Ware Tetralogy is a series of four science fiction novels by author RudyRucker: Software (1982), Wetware (1988), Freeware (1997) and Realware (2000)...
publication of the original Stranger text in the Los Angeles Times, RudyRucker described Harshaw as "the first of a series of pompous libertarian windbags...
by John Brosnan. Unwind (2007) by Neal Shusterman Wetware (1988) by RudyRucker White Devils (2004) by Paul J. McAuley The Windup Girl (2009) by Paolo...
absolute infinite in Cantor's conception of set Infinity and the Mind, RudyRucker, Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press, 1995, ISBN 0-691-00172-3;...
in his "Computer Recreations" column in Scientific American in 1989. RudyRucker relates the story as follows: Dewdney reports that, casting about for...
also appeared as Billy's Picture Book (2010)); as by Terry Bisson and RudyRucker Billy and the Pond Vikings (2009) Billy and the Time Skateboard (2009)...
forms Wetware (biology), biological components Wetware (novel), a 1988 RudyRucker biopunk novel Wetware (film), 2018 Jay Craven film Wetware computer,...
"Snake-Eyes" by Tom Maddox "Rock On" by Pat Cadigan "Tales of Houdini" by RudyRucker "400 Boys" by Marc Laidlaw "Solstice" by James Patrick Kelly "Petra"...
"Snake-Eyes" by Tom Maddox "Rock On" by Pat Cadigan "Tales of Houdini" by RudyRucker "400 Boys" by Marc Laidlaw "Solstice" by James Patrick Kelly "Petra"...
Chekhov's Journey. Additional variations on the spaceship theme appear in RudyRucker and Bruce Sterling's 1985 short story "Storming the Cosmos" and Algis...
in literature The Fourth Dimension (book), a 1984 non-fiction book by RudyRucker The Fourth Dimension, a book by David Yonggi Cho The Fourth Dimension...
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