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Rudy Rucker

Rudy Rucker

Author Biography & Works

Rudolf von Bitter Rucker is an American mathematician, computer scientist, science fiction author, and one of the founders of the cyberpunk literary movement. The author of both fiction and non-fiction, he is best known for the novels in the Ware Tetralogy, the first two of which both won Philip K. Dick Awards. He edited the science fiction webzine Flurb until its closure in 2014.

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Books by Rudy Rucker

Software

Software

The first of a series in which sentient robots seek to overthrow humans and start a robot revolt. Rucker is considered to be a grand-father of Cyberpunk and he imagines...

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The Hollow Earth (cover not available)

The Hollow Earth

The protagonist has a few misadventures and ends up escaping with Edgar Allen Poe to the South Pole and the entrance to the Earth's interior, where some interesting physics are...

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The Hacker and the Ants

The Hacker and the Ants

A book about a hacker and a vicious computer virus that is very plausible.

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