Rudy Rucker
Rudy Rucker
Rudolf von Bitter Ruckeris an American mathematician, computer scientist, science fiction author, 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 whichboth won Philip K. Dick Awards. Until its closure in 2014 he edited the science fiction webzine Flurb...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionScientist
Date of Birth22 March 1946
CountryUnited States of America
lonely cutting simple
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.
machines body time-machine
Our bodies are the time machine.
gnarly might expected
All living things are gnarly, in that they inevitably do things that are much more complex than one might have expected.
smart doe plugs
But how does it feel to plug into a system that's say, a million times as smart as a person.
writing advice done
Advice to beginning SF writers? Write a lot, finish what you write, and when it's done, keep sending it out for quite awhile.
zines failing print
If all else fails, there's always print or web zines.
thinking dry dead-ends
I think dry nanotechnology is probably a dead-end.
different surprising
I like to do things that are surprising and different.
book ifs i-can
I like a book better if I can't predict what's going to happen.
book fall strategy
Electronic distribution is more of a fall-back strategy for putting out a book that isn't deemed profitable enough to print. You hardly make any money publishing an electronic book.
eye mind looks
I am, as it were, an eye that the cosmos uses to look at itself. The Mind is not mine alone; the Mind is everywhere.
running our-world evil
Unfortunately our nation, nay, our world, is run by evil morons.
style magic world
The world is magic. Science is but an insipid style of sorcery.
surfing world wave
We're part of the unfolding world, surfing the chaotic waves