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
shortcuts findings traditional
Traditional science is all about finding shortcuts.
facts doe hard
The hard fact is that not everyone does get published.
book stories selling
Selling a book or story has never become absolutely automatic for me.
fiction principles wonder
Now, being a science fiction writer, when I see a natural principle, I wonder if it could fail.
mind realizing process
It's soothing to realize that my mind's processes are inherently uncontrollable.
teaching book rude
In any case, A New Kind of Science is a wonderful book, and I'm still absorbing its teachings.
way looks certain
Computations are everywhere, once you begin to look at things in a certain way.
process computation
A computation is a process that obeys finitely describable rules.
heart mind unpredictable
The churning of a human mind is unpredictable, as is the anatomy of the human heart.
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.