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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Rudy Rucker
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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, Fiction, historical, general, Mathematics, Fourth dimension, Mathematicians, Science Fiction, Science fiction, American Short stories, Artificial intelligence, Fantasy fiction, Fiction, science fiction, action & adventure, Fiction, short stories (single author), Future life, General, Long Now Manual for Civilization, Philosophy, Popular culture, Quantum theory, Quatrième dimension, Robots, Short stories, 005.1ID Numbers
- OLID: OL19107A
- BookBrainz: cf635473-fa12-49ab-b0ee-3b1ac199a3cd
- GoodReads: 130704
- ISNI: 0000000120313360
- IMDb: nm1628350
- Library of Congress Names: n82003602
- SBN/ICCU (National Library Service of Italy): RAVV034556
- VIAF: 98168447
- Wikidata: Q92849
- Inventaire.io: wd:Q92849
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- 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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