About Rudy
[Photo by Georgia Rucker, 2004]
Rudy Rucker is a writer and a mathematician who worked for twenty years as a Silicon Valley computer science professor. He is regarded as contemporary master of science-fiction, and received the Philip K. Dick award twice. His thirty published books include both novels and non-fiction books.
A founder of the cyberpunk school of science-fiction, Rucker often writes SF in a realistic style known as transrealism. His recent Mathematicians in Love is an example of a transreal novel. And his early cyberpunk novels, Spacetime Donuts and The Sex Sphere were recently republished.
Rucker’s 2007 novel, Postsingular iis something of a return to the cyberpunk style, as is the 2009 sequel, Hylozoic, in which every object on Earth comes to life.
More information can be found on Rucker’s home page, in his Wikipedia entry, or in his illustrated autobiographical essay.