White light by rudy rucker author rudy rucker offers a unique vision of life, death, and the infinite worlds that lie beyond in this thoughtprovoking. Its probably cliche to compare a book to taking hallucinogens, but thats how white light reads. Rudy rucker should be declared a national treasure of american science fiction. Rudy rucker academic dictionaries and encyclopedias. Mathematician and sciencefiction novelist rudy rucker takes readers on a guided tour of a higher reality that explores what the fourth dimension is and what it has meant to generations of thinkers. The secret of life, white light, and saucer wisdom. Felix rayman spends the day teaching indifferent students, pondering his theories on infinity, and daydreaming. Night shade books, march, 2019, 4th edtion, with introduction by john shirley. Transrealism is about transmuting an authors ordinary life into sf. A hipster math professor travels to the afterworld. I export my indesign book files in the pdf format and send them to. Rudy rucker shared his experience discussing agency with william gibson. Rudy rucker is a past master at turning mathematical concepts into rollicking science fiction adventure, from spacetime donuts and white light to the hacker and the ants. His many books on mathematics and philosophy include mind tools and the fourth dimension, and his numerous works of science fic.
My eleven or twelve novels thus far break into three groups. Rudy rucker, writerinresidence at the gloucester writers center discussses transrealism or beatnik science fiction august 2012. White light felix rayman 72 78 the sex sphere alwin bitter 78 80 the hacker and the ants jerzy rugby 86 92 saucer wisdom rudy rucker 92 97 and then theres my other six novels. Dick parked on your driveway in a topless 57 caddy. Like many other stories and novels by rudy rucker, jack and the aktuals is a wild and wooly dramatization of. White light rudy rucker download here felix rayman spends the day teaching indifferent students, pondering his theories on infinity, and daydreaming. After the singularity, everyone and everything is sentient and telepathic. Rudy rucker is the most consistently brilliant imagination working in sf today. Charles stross, author of the laundry files reading a rudy rucker book is like finding poe, kerouac, lewis carroll, and philip k. When his dreams finally separate him from his physical body, felix plunges headfirst into a multidimensional universe beyond the limits of space and time the place of white light.
Rucker also writes sf in a realistic style known as transrealism, which encompasses such novels as white light, the secret of life, the hacker and the ants. It was written while rucker was teaching mathematics at the university of heidelberg from 1978 to 1980, at roughly the same time he was working on the nonfiction book infinity and the mind on one level, the book is an exploration of the mathematics of infinity through. Not when your boss is a selfflattening radioactive pancake. The author of both fiction and nonfiction, he is best known for the novels in the ware tetralogy, the first two of which software and wetware both won philip k. White light book by rudy rucker, john shirley official.
In rucker s last novel, postsingular, the singularity happened and life on earth was transformed by the. White light is a work of science fiction by rudy rucker published in 1980 by virgin books in the uk and ace books in the us. Maybe thats jesuss voice, or the buddhas, or the white lights. A hipste, isbn 9781940948058 buy the transreal trilogy. White light is a work of science fiction by rudy rucker published in 1980 by virgin books in. Even the students who read the novel white light by rudy rucker. Author rudy rucker offers a unique vision of life, death, and the infinite worlds that lie beyond in this thoughtprovoking, inspiring, romanticand funny as hellmathematical sf novel. As you mention, the hacker and the ants is part of the transreal series which includes the secret of life, spacetime donuts, and white light. Rudy rucker is a mathematician, computer scientist, author, and one of the founders of the cyberpunk literary movement. Download it once and read it on your kindle device, pc, phones or tablets. Postsingular rudy rucker download ebook pdf, epub, tuebl. What links here related changes upload file special pages permanent link page. Videos uploaded by rudy rucker, as well as links to other peoples videos of rudy.
Loco ebook by rudy rucker 9781466821989 rakuten kobo. The secret of life rudy rucker, kim stanley robinson. Suddenly the fate of all life here in spaceland is at stake. He is one of the founders of the cyberpunk movement, although his work tends to be a bit more light hearted than most in that movement, and often features elements of mathematicsbased surrealism which border on the fantastic. Transreal trilogy contains three of rudy rucker s transreal novels, which can also be purchased alone. Use features like bookmarks, note taking and highlighting while reading white light. Com original by rudy rucker available from rakuten kobo.
Surreal, inventive, and a touch aimless, white light is full of wild invention and mindbending meditations on the nature of infinity. Between teaching indifferent students, pondering his theories on infinity, napping, and worrying about his wife, hes barely here. William gibson rudy rucker is the most consistently brilliant imagination working in sf todaycharles stross. Nothing in this license impairs or restricts rudy ruckers moral. White light rudy rucker by yung shellenbarger issuu. This acclaimed book by rudy rucker is available at in several formats for your ereader. He is one of the founders of the cyberpunk movement, although his work tends to be a bit more light hearted than most in that movement, and often features elements of mathematicsbased surrealism which border on the fantastic his first novel, white light. Read jack and the aktuals, or, physical applications of transfinite set theory a tor.
The exciting and challenging journey is enhanced by more than 200 illustrations and a host of puzzles and problems with answers. A cult author tries to write about alien abductions. In white light rucker commandingly synthesizes mysticism, pop imagery. His thirty published books include both novels and nonfiction books on the fourth dimension, infinity, and the meaning of computation. Issuu is a digital publishing platform that makes it simple to publish magazines, catalogs, newspapers, books, and more online. Select reason, pornographic, defamatory, illegalunlawful, spam, other terms of service violation, file a complaint. Praise for white light white light is a good, intelligent, powerful novel, and the most auspicious debut in the sf field since i dont know when. Rudy rucker is a writer and a mathematician who worked for twenty years as a silicon valley computer science professor. He is regarded as contemporary master of sciencefiction, and received the philip k. Young prof felix rayman spends his days in another world. Series isbncatalog id price pages format type cover artist verif. The secret of life is about me in high school and college.
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