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Combining both the fiction and nonfiction of one of the most unique
contemporary science fiction writers, this collection offers a rare
look into Rudy Rucker's mind as an author and mathematician.
Featuring an in-depth interview with Rucker about his ideas,
politics, and how his career as a mathematician and scientist
overlap with that of a bestselling author, this exclusive
compilation is a must-have for any science fiction enthusiast.
Infiltrating fundamentalist Virginia to witness the clash between
religious fanatics and drug-addled and sex crazed youth, this
collection is a one-of-a-kind examination of reality according to
Rudy Rucker.
Peter Bruegel's paintings---a peasant wedding in a barn, hunters in the snow, a rollicking street festival, and many others---have long defined our idea of everyday life in sixteenth- century Europe. They are classic icons of a time and place in much the same way as Norman Rockwell's depictions of twentieth-century America. We know relatively little about Bruegel, but after years of research, novelist Rudy Rucker has built upon the what is known and has created for us the life and world of a true master who never got old. In sixteen chapters, each headed by a reproduction of one of the famous works, Rucker brings Bruegel's painter's progress and his colorful world to vibrant life, doing for Bruegel what the best-selling Girl with a Pearl Earring did for Vermeer. We follow the artist from the winding streets of Antwerp and Brussels to the glowing skies and decaying monuments of Rome and back. He and his friends, the cartographer Ortelius and Williblad Cheroo, an American Indian, are as vivid on the page as the multifarious denizens of Bruegel's unforgettable canvases.
Here is a world of conflict, change, and discovery, a world where Carnival battles Lent every day, preserved for us in paint by the engaging genius you will meet in the pages of As Above So Below.
Joe Cube is a Silicon Valley hotshot--well, a would-be hotshot anyway--hoping that the 3-D TV project he's managing will lead to the big money IPO he's always dreamed of. On New Year's Eve, hoping to impress his wife, he sneaks home the prototype. It brings no new warmth to their cooling relationship, but it does attract someone else's attention.
When Joe sees a set of lips talking to him (floating in midair) and feels the poke of a disembodied finger (inside him), it's not because of the champagne he's drunk. He has just met Momo, a woman from the All, a world of four spatial dimensions for whom our narrow world, which she calls Spaceland, is something like a rug, but one filled with motion and life. Momo has a business proposition for Joe, an offer she won't let him refuse. The upside potential becomes much clearer to him once she helps him grow a new eye (on a stalk) that can see in the fourth-dimensional directions, and he agrees. After that it's a wild ride through a million-dollar night in Las Vegas, a budding addiction to tasty purple 4-D food, a failing marriage, eye-popping excursions into the All, and encounters with Momo's foes, rubbery red critters who steal money, offer sage advice and sometimes messily explode. Joe is having the time of his life, until Momo's scheme turns out to have angles he couldn't have imagined. Suddenly the fate of all life here in Spaceland is at stake.
Rudy Rucker is a past master at turning mathematical concepts into rollicking science fiction adventure, from Spacetime Donuts and White Light to The Hacker and the Ants. In the tradition of Edwin A. Abbott's classic novel, Flatland, Rucker gives us a tour of higher mathematics and visionary realities. Spaceland is Flatland on hyperdrive!
From a two-time winner of the Philip K. Dick award, and one of the
founding fathers of cyberpunk comes a novel about a very modern
nightmare: the most destructive computer virus ever has been traced
to your machine. Computer programmer Jerzy Rugby spends his days
blissfully hacking away in cyberspace aiding the GoMotion
Corporation in its noble quest to create intelligent robots. Then
an electronic ant gets into the machinery ... then more ants ....
then millions and millions of the nasty viral pests appear out of
nowhere to wreak havoc throughout the Net. And suddenly Jerzy Rugby
is Public Enemy Number One, wanted for sabotage, computer crime,
and treason a patsy who must now get to the bottom of the virtual
insectile plague. Rudy Rucker warms the cockles of my heart ... I
think of him as the Scarlet Pimpernel of science fiction. Philip
Jose Farmer
This is the definitive popular exploration of what the fourth
dimension means, both physically and spiritually. Mathematician and
science-fiction novelist Rudy Rucker takes readers on a guided tour
of a higher reality that explores what the fourth dimension is and
what it's meant to generations of thinkers. The exciting and
challenging journey is enhanced by more than 200 illustrations and
a host of puzzles and problems (with answers).
"This is an invigorating book, a short but spirited slalom for the
mind." -- Timothy Ferris, "The New York Times Book Review"
"Highly readable. One is reminded of the breadth and depth of
Hofstadter's" G""o""del, Escher, Bach."" --" Science
""Anyone with even a minimal interest in mathematics and fantasy
will find "The Fourth Dimension" informative and mind-dazzling...
Rucker] plunges into spaces above three with a zest and energy that
is breathtaking." -- Martin Gardner
"Those who think the fourth dimension is nothing but time should be
encouraged to read"The Fourth Dimension, " along with anyone else
who feels like opening the hinges of his mind and letting in a bit
of fresh air." -- John Sladek, "Washington Post Book World
""A mine of mathematical insights and a thoroughly satisfying
read." -- Paul Davies, "Nature Magazine"
A dynamic exploration of infinity In Infinity and the Mind, Rudy
Rucker leads an excursion to that stretch of the universe he calls
the "Mindscape," where he explores infinity in all its forms:
potential and actual, mathematical and physical, theological and
mundane. Using cartoons, puzzles, and quotations to enliven his
text, Rucker acquaints us with staggeringly advanced levels of
infinity, delves into the depths beneath daily awareness, and
explains Kurt Goedel's belief in the possibility of robot
consciousness. In the realm of infinity, mathematics, science, and
logic merge with the fantastic. By closely examining the paradoxes
that arise, we gain profound insights into the human mind, its
powers, and its limitations. This Princeton Science Library edition
includes a new preface by the author.
All of Rudy Rucker's science-fiction stories, a trove of gnarl and
wonder in two volumes. Volume One, includes stories from 1976
through 1995, ranging from the cyberpunk to the transreal. As well
as Rucker's solo stories, we have collaborations with Bruce
Sterling, Marc Laidlaw.
All of Rudy Rucker's science-fiction stories in two volumes-a trove
of gnarl and wonder. Volume Two includes stories from 1996 through
2011, with fifteen previously uncollected tales. As well as
Rucker's solo stories, this volume features collaborations with
Bruce Sterling, Marc Laidlaw, Paul Di Filippo, John Shirley, Terry
Bisson, and Eileen Gunn.
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Fuzzy Dice (Paperback)
Paul Di Filippo; Introduction by Rudy Rucker
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How badly could you screw up when granted access to infinite worlds
conforming to your heart's most intimate desires? No matter how
much of a disaster you or I might make of such a miraculous gift,
rest assured that Paul Girard, hapless middle-aged bookstore clerk,
can hilariously surpass your worst fumblings and missteps. Visited
one morning by a dimension-hopping artificial intelligence named
Hans, Paul is given the ability to jump instantly to any world he
can envision. But without truly knowing himself, Paul soon
discovers that framing a wish that gets the expected results is not
as easy as it first appears. From the depths of the Big Bang to a
world where hippies rule; from a land of Amazons to one where life
is a video-game; from a society where cooperation means everything
to one where individual chaos rules. Across these bizarre
dimensions and many others, Paul races in the search for happiness,
love, wealth, status and the answer to the Ontological Pickle.
Acquiring comrades and enemies along the way, our feckless
alternaut reaches a cul-de-sac from which the only exit is death.
And then his adventures really begin.
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