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Rudy Rucker


Born
in Louisville, Kentucky, The United States
March 22, 1946

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Rudolf von Bitter Rucker is an American mathematician, computer scientist, science fiction author, and one of the founders of the cyberpunk genre. He is best known for his Ware Tetralogy, the first two of which won Philip K. Dick awards. Presently, Rudy Rucker edits the science fiction webzine Flurb.

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Summer in SF and NYC

Time to catch up on my photos. Here’s May and June, 2025. A lot happened. Here I am in North Beach with Barb, back in May. Love the display sign of a big fish!   Fab four-color fan. Usually I line myself up so that the horizontals and verticals are straight, but this time I […]

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Average rating: 3.81 · 32,148 ratings · 2,351 reviews · 194 distinct worksSimilar authors
Software (Ware, #1)

3.74 avg rating — 4,337 ratings — published 1982 — 25 editions
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Wetware (Ware #2)

3.80 avg rating — 2,289 ratings — published 1988 — 15 editions
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Freeware (Ware #3)

3.75 avg rating — 1,275 ratings — published 1997 — 8 editions
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The Ware Tetralogy (Ware, #...

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3.83 avg rating — 1,082 ratings — published 2010 — 7 editions
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Postsingular

3.61 avg rating — 1,001 ratings — published 2007 — 15 editions
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Infinity and the Mind: The ...

4.01 avg rating — 837 ratings — published 1981 — 26 editions
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The Fourth Dimension: A Gui...

4.15 avg rating — 791 ratings — published 1984 — 4 editions
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Realware (Ware #4)

3.72 avg rating — 852 ratings — published 2000 — 6 editions
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White Light

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3.88 avg rating — 767 ratings — published 1980 — 19 editions
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The Hacker and the Ants: Ve...

3.62 avg rating — 630 ratings — published 1994
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“For me, the best thing about Cyberpunk is that it taught me how to enjoy shopping malls, which used to terrify me. Now I just imagine the whole thing is two miles below the moon’s surface, and that half the people’s right-brains have been eaten by roboticized steel rats. And suddenly it’s interesting again.”
Rudy Rucker

“The simple process of eating and breathing weave all of us together into a vast four-dimensional array. No matter how isolated you may sometimes feel, no matter how lonely, you are never really cut off from the whole.”
Rudy Rucker

“Even if we become glowing clouds of ectoplasm, there's going to be something we're competing for - and most of us will feel as though we're getting screwed.”
Rudy Rucker, Year Million: Science at the Far Edge of Knowledge

Polls

SERIES Preliminary Poll (SF) to start March 15, 2025

Hyperion Cantos, 4 books by Dan Simmons, starting with Hyperion
 
  13 votes, 37.1%

Otherland, 4 books by Tad Williams, starting with City of Golden Shadow
 
  7 votes, 20.0%

Planetfall, 4 books by Emma Newman, starting with Planetfall
 
  6 votes, 17.1%

Luna, 3 books by Ian McDonald, starting with New Moon
 
  3 votes, 8.6%

Gaea, 3 books by John Varley, starting with Titan
 
  2 votes, 5.7%

Ware, 4 books by Rudy Rucker, starting with Software
 
  2 votes, 5.7%

Highroad, 3 books by Kate Elliott, starting with A Passage of Stars
 
  2 votes, 5.7%

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