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
zines failing print
If all else fails, there's always print or web zines.
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
dream inner-peace surfing
It's a waste to chase the pipe dream of a magical tiny theory that allows us to make quick and detailed calculations about the future. We can't predict and we can't control. To accept this can be a source of liberation and inner peace. We're part of the unfolding world, surfing the chaotic waves.
moon shopping two
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.
thinking dry dead-ends
I think dry nanotechnology is probably a dead-end.
school mean math
The world is colors and motion, feelings and thoughts and what does math have to do with it? Not much, if 'math' means being bored in high school, but in truth mathematics is the one universal science. Mathematics is the study of pure pattern and everything in the cosmos is a kind of pattern.
play ideas fiction
Some ideas you have to chew on, then roll them around a lot, play with them before you can turn them into funky science fiction.
character work-out rude
Science fiction writers put characters into a world with arbitrary rules and work out what happens.