Author Rudy Rucker Bibliography
Wetware (Rudy Rucker) ---»
...Found this book in an alley. Signed up for a lower body transplant. Melted the top half. Walked around as a birdbath with legs for awhile. Tried to get brain back but the beaurocracy was terrible. What can one do? Wetware is one of the classics of the cyborg life. Just doesnt get any better. [...]
Software (Rudy Rucker) ---»
...The first in Ruckers Ware series, and the first book in which Ruckerbeing tips over the boundary of suspicion that he is not pure Meat, but part Machine bopper meat writing machine intelligence cyborgized into superconducting free will. The tactic of writing from the point of view of your flesh components in an effort to [...]
Spaceland: A Novel of the Fourth Dimension (Rudy Rucker) ---»
...Hey! Git Flat! yeah! another rocking novel from Rudy Rucker. 3-D, 4-D, hell why stop there. N-D-A. Yep, its silicon time again, and from the heat of the startup central comes an inter-dimensional marketing plan. The writing is funny, fast, and the high tech startup back story is awesome. Except if your on one side, [...]
Software Engineering and Computer Games (Rudy Rucker) ---»
...Not to review textbooks, but this is a good textbook. Its rare that discussions of engineering veer into the conceptual gestalt as much, especially as practices become enmeshed in ratiocination to the nth degree. The window foundation class codebase is highly outdated and inappropriate for the level of design presentation and discussion, but if taken [...]
Mad Professor: The Uncollected Short Stories of Rudy Rucker (Rudy Rucker) ---»
...For those who have read Ruckers novels, many of these storys are familiar, with a few add in tweaks. For those who havent, lord only knows what theyll think. Not a bad collection but I preferred his very early shorts. They had a roughness and less formulaic infectiousness, not that his writing ever lacks infectiousness. [...]
The Lifebox, the Seashell, and the Soul: What Gnarly Computation Taught Me About Ultimate Reality, the Meaning of Life, and How to Be Happy (Rudy Rucker) ---»
...Ok. Universal automatism. This is hopeful. However, if you remove four letters, you are left with Universal Autism. Is this where www.omat.com will take us? Rucker has a good discussion here about the integration of meat and machine, but before we reach that physical stage, there are some conceptual machines that might need to be [...]
Frek and the Elixir (Rudy Rucker) ---»
...An adventure story of the boy and his dog type, although distorted through the lens of Rucker. Not as exciting as some of his more theoretical based books, but still quite a good read. The ecology angle is good and contemporary. Item: Aside from Treasure Island, not that into the formula. However, my 16 year [...]
Mathematicians in Love (Rudy Rucker) ---»
...An excellent read. Rudy Rucker has got a highly lubricated imagination and can churn this stuff out like rocketfuel. For those of us who have lived through at minimum an undergraduate math degree, awesome vindication! Complete with hyperdimensional faculty soap operas. Like a Russian Kominderhutz, but with a west-coast tang. Its true, some mathematicians do [...]
