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Mathematicians in Love

4 reviews
Rudy Rucker

Tor Books, 2008

amusing not by the numbers satire
In the university, the two mathematic graduate students, Bela Kis and Paul Bridge, are roommates who share much in common besides trying to obtain a PH.D by the numbers and a flat. Both are advised by maniacal mathematician Dr. Roland Haut and each enjoys the lifestyle of an advanced student living in college towns like Humelocke and Klownetown where the zaniest crazies of the universe come ...

Software Engineering and Computer Games

2 reviews
Rudy Rucker

Addison Wesley, 2002

Software Engineering and Computer Games
This is the guy who taught LaMothe at California State University, San Jose. The book is about 608 pages thick (small size). For beginners, this is the perfect introduction.The author published the source code utilized in the book as Open Source. So anyone can download it from his website for free. Getting back to the book: Negatives: Code is sprinkled with small bits of MFC and OpenGL.(instead ...

Infinity and the Mind: The Science and Philosophy of the Infinite (Princeton Science Library)

17 reviews
Rudy Rucker

Princeton University Press, 2004

This review is not true.
This book is spooky! I love it! The infinite is such a fascinating topic. I contemplate it on a daily basis and wrestle with some of its concepts almost constantly. This book is a must read for anyone who has ever wanted to know more on this subject. Robot conciousness is an incredible topic and really makes one think about what conciousness really means. Some of the concepts are difficult ...

Postsingular

15 reviews
Rudy Rucker

Tor Books, 2007

Vasty Mentation
Rudy Rucker's bodacious ideas are easy to love, but it's harder to love the books. His level of creativity will amaze the adventurous reader, but his skills in distilling those ideas into a coherent plot still have some catching up to do. This book is overflowing with quirky forward thinking about the upcoming quantum singularity, in which every atom in the universe possesses computing power and ...

Master of Space and Time

9 reviews
Rudy Rucker

Running Press, 2005

Rucker's best novel -- wonderfully bizarre. 5+ stars
______________________________________________ "Master of Space & Time" (1985) is still my favorite Rucker novel, in which the tale of three wishes granted is explored via quantum mechanics, with wonderfully bizarre results. The apotheosis of Harry Gerber... I've read MST at least three times, & laughed aloud each time. One never knows what someone else's taste in humor might be, ...

16 reviews
Rudy Rucker

Eos, 1987

Good ideas, great fun, colorful and zany action!
All Hail Happy Cloak! A wild and joyous romp from the get-go. Unique in that it moves so well from comedy to ideas to action and into supercool character developement. Lots of weird events and images. Superb SF entertainment.

Mirrorshades: The Cyberpunk Anthology

14 reviews
Greg Bear, Pat Cadigan, ...

Ace Books/Berkley, 1988

Best Collection For the Genre
This is simply a fantastic collection of the best stories of my favorite literary subgenre, the Cyberpunk Movement in the 1980s and early 1990s. While I may not like William Gibson and Bruce Sterling, I am not ignorant when it comes to their importance in popularizing and shaping the genre. Also here are Rudy Rucker, the acting grandfather of the genre; and Pat Cadigan, the Queen of Cyberpunk ...

Mondo 2000: A User's Guide to the New Edge : Cyberpunk, Virtual Reality, Wetware, Designer Aphrodisiacs, ...

3 reviews
Rudy Rucker, R. U. Sirius, ...

Perennial, 1992

If you read mondo 2000, there are no surprises here, but...
If you have read Mondo 2000 before, then nothing in this book will be much of a surprise. In fact in 1998 this book is clearly retro. Still, to the new reader you will find much of the information interesting. The format is basically an A-Z of popular memes and cultural phenomena with a pseudo hypertext interface. High gloss and flashy. Suitable for a coffee table, but you might want to keep ...

The Hacker and the Ants

18 reviews
Rudy Rucker

Running Press, 2003

Very enjoyable
I'll start by saying what's wrong with this book. Rucker must have had a really bad marriage as he uses his wife in his books rather negatively. But even with this he writes a fantastic book. I can look at the technology that he describes and almost see it in use today. No magic but solid tech. And the story fits so well with the genre of both cyberpunk and today's news. I really wish this book ...

Spaceland: A Novel of the Fourth Dimension

16 reviews
Rudy Rucker

Tor Books, 2003

Not quite top-drawer Rucker, but clever and fun. 4.6 stars
____________________________________________ This is a clever takeoff on Flatland, starring Joe Cube, done up in the inimitable Rucker style. Joe, an employee of a Silican Valley startup, gets a visit from Momo, a pushy broad from 4D Klupdom, with a business proposition that he absolutely, positively can't refuse. Momo gives Joe an enhancement, a third eye that can see in the fourth dimension -- ...

The Last Books of H.G. Wells: The Happy Turning: A Dream of Life & Mind at the End of its Tether ((None))
H. G. Wells

Monkfish Book Publishing, 2006

This volume contains the two last works by HG Wells. Nearing the end of his life, increasingly distressed over the war, Wells deals with death and apocalypse, mortality and religion, and with "human insufficiency." Mind at the End of its Tether "One approaches it with awe. You come across references to it everywhere: Colin Wilson, Priestly, Koestler. It seems to have been a wounding work; something no one could agree with, but something ...

11 reviews
Rudy V. B. Rucker

Eos, 1997

Read it...........trust me
Rucker will open up your mind with this book Wetware. The imagination Rucker has of the future is crazy yet believable enough to immerse yourself in him world. Wetware takes you to a world with self-sufficient robots living on the moon and people melting themselves for pleasure. The humans no longer control the robots; the robots are trying to control humans. If you are thinking this is just ...

The Hollow Earth

4 reviews
Rudy Rucker

MonkeyBrain Books, 2006

Poe Fans Will Love It!
If you've read some Poe, especially "The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym," you'll enjoy this pastiche. It's especially fun if you're familiar with Lovecraft's "At the Mountains of Madness," another book that makes homage to Poe's "Arthur Gordon Pym." Rucker never disappoints-- he's crazy in a *good* way.

Saucer Wisdom

13 reviews
Rudy Rucker

Tor Books, 2001

The future through the eyes of a flying saucer...
Well, the flying saucer is not a real saucer, but a device used by Rudy Rucker to allow us to see the future through the eyes of a character, Frank Shook, who travels through time with the aliens. We learn about how things will change, or how Rudy THINKS things will change, in the future. He writes about transhumanity, alien races, faster-than-light space travel, time travel, cloning, future ...

The Lifebox, the Seashell, and the Soul: What Gnarly Computation Taught Me About Ultimate Reality, the ...

5 reviews
Rudy Rucker

Basic Books, 2006

Anything but Muddled
This is one of the most fascinating books I have ever read. Rudy Rucker is an accomplished science fiction author and popularizer of mathematics and computer science. In this book he seems to bring together everything he has written in the past while playing with constructing a coherent world-view and philosophy of life. It works quite well. (Rucker is such a fascinating writer that my son was ...

White Light, Third Edition

30 reviews
Rudy Rucker

Running Press, 2001

Brilliant Fun
Light, fun writing style. Concepts beyond human comprehension presented in humorous and approachable style. I read it again after a couple years and liked it better than I had the first time.

12 reviews
Rudy Rucker

Eos (HarperCollins), 2001

Stuzzy culmination of the 'ware series
The only works of Rudy Rucker that I have read are the 'ware series. These works are a bit more skanky in nature than my normal read; however, after I've read them, I'm always glad that I did. They are always entertaining and thought provoking. The latest episode in the 'ware series, Realware, is no exception. I did find the level of skank in this novel to be somewhat less in magnitude than ...

Frek and the Elixir

8 reviews
Rudy Rucker

Tor Books, 2004

Godzoon Goggy Gollywog
This has got to be one of the most inventive and imaginative novels in recent memory. Rudy Rucker has created an astonishingly creative story by mixing well-drawn comedy and drama with the latest knowledge in biotech, computing, and quantum physics. Not to mention a visual richness that will turn on the inner freakiness of even the most stoic reader. Here we have the adventures of 12 year-old ...

As Above, So Below: A Novel of Peter Bruegel

5 reviews
Rudy Rucker

Forge Books, 2003

My Favorite Book of this Year
My husband and I both love this story of Peter Breugel's life. The book was well researched and obviously written by someone with a life-long passion for Breugel the man, as well as his paintings. It is a beautiful story. My husband and I both agree, we want to go to Europe and see his original paintings after reading this book.

16 reviews
Rudy Rucker

Eos (HarperCollins), 1998

Stuzzy
I've never thought of Rucker as a great writer, but he never wants for interesting ideas. While his characters tend to be fairly broad and cartoonish, the bright colors of his invented slang and weird technology make for a nice pleasant brain buzz. In "Freeware", Rucker continues his little AI saga begun in "Software" and "Wetware". The boppers (the little AI robots featured in the first two ...

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