{"id":2,"date":"2007-01-29T17:52:56","date_gmt":"2007-01-30T01:52:56","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2023-05-29T15:57:49","modified_gmt":"2023-05-29T22:57:49","slug":"about","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/about\/","title":{"rendered":"About Rudy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/images5\/rudy64th600.jpg\" alt=\"Rudy Rucker in 2010\" width=\"400\" \/><br \/>\n<em>[Photo by Sylvia Rucker, 2010]<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Rudy Rucker is a writer and a mathematician who worked for twenty years as a Silicon Valley computer science professor. Rucker is regarded as contemporary master of science-fiction, and received the Philip K. Dick awards for his cyberpunk novels <em>Software <\/em>and<em> Wetware.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s worth noting that his novel <em>Software (<\/em>2020), was the very first SF work to introduce the by-now-very-familiar notion of transferring a human personality to a bot. What&#8217;s more, <em>Software<\/em> was the first SF novel in which robot minds are <em>evolved<\/em>, rather than being <em>designed<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>As well as writing cyberpunk, Rucker writes SF in a realistic style known as transrealism&#8212;where the author uses SF archetypes to symbolize the\u00a0 concerns of the characters. This is an increasingly common style among mainstream authors.<\/p>\n<p>Rucker&#8217;s forty published books include non-fiction books on the fourth dimension, infinity, and the meaning of computation.<\/p>\n<p>Rucker has also worked on several software packages; he runs a podcast of his talks; and you can browse some of his works online, including his autobiography <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/nestedscrolls\/sample\/nestedscrolls.html\"><em>NestedScrolls<\/em><\/a>\u00a0and his <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/transrealbooks\/completestories\/\">Complete Stories<\/a><\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>For many more links, see the main page of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/\">Rudy&#8217;s Blog<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[Photo by Sylvia Rucker, 2010] Rudy Rucker is a writer and a mathematician who worked for twenty years as a Silicon Valley computer science professor. Rucker is regarded as contemporary master of science-fiction, and received the Philip K. Dick awards for his cyberpunk novels Software and Wetware. It&#8217;s worth noting that his novel Software (2020), [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"page-nosidebar.php","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-2","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2"}],"version-history":[{"count":59,"href":"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14056,"href":"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2\/revisions\/14056"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}