The exciting and challenging journey is enhanced by more than 200 illustrations and a host of puzzles and problems with answers. He is regarded as contemporary master of sciencefiction, and received the philip k. His many books on mathematics and philosophy include mind tools and the fourth dimension, and his numerous works of science fic. 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. Rudy rucker academic dictionaries and encyclopedias. 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 should be declared a national treasure of american science fiction. Rudy rucker, writerinresidence at the gloucester writers center discussses transrealism or beatnik science fiction august 2012. Surreal, inventive, and a touch aimless, white light is full of wild invention and mindbending meditations on the nature of infinity. Use features like bookmarks, note taking and highlighting while reading white light. Not when your boss is a selfflattening radioactive pancake. Transrealism is about transmuting an authors ordinary life into sf. Rudy rucker is the most consistently brilliant imagination working in sf today.
Download it once and read it on your kindle device, pc, phones or tablets. White light and millions of other books are available for amazon kindle. Joe is having the time of his life, until momos scheme turns out to have angles he couldnt have imagined. Even the students who read the novel white light by rudy rucker. 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. Night shade books, march, 2019, 4th edtion, with introduction by john shirley.
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. Videos uploaded by rudy rucker, as well as links to other peoples videos of rudy. Felix rayman spends the day teaching indifferent students, pondering his theories on infinity, and daydreaming. I export my indesign book files in the pdf format and send them to. 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. Nothing in this license impairs or restricts rudy ruckers moral. Like many other stories and novels by rudy rucker, jack and the aktuals is a wild and wooly dramatization of. Rudy rucker is a mathematician, computer scientist, author, and one of the founders of the cyberpunk literary movement. 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. Postsingular rudy rucker download ebook pdf, epub, tuebl. White light book by rudy rucker, john shirley official. 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. Dick parked on your driveway in a topless 57 caddy. Between teaching indifferent students, pondering his theories on infinity, napping, and worrying about his wife, hes barely here.
A hipster math professor travels to the afterworld. A cult author tries to write about alien abductions. 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.
Select reason, pornographic, defamatory, illegalunlawful, spam, other terms of service violation, file a complaint. Young prof felix rayman spends his days in another world. Issuu is a digital publishing platform that makes it simple to publish magazines, catalogs, newspapers, books, and more online. The secret of life, white light, and saucer wisdom. Rudy rucker is a writer and a mathematician who worked for twenty years as a silicon valley computer science professor. Read jack and the aktuals, or, physical applications of transfinite set theory a tor. 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. 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. The secret of life rudy rucker, kim stanley robinson. Com original by rudy rucker available from rakuten kobo. 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.
Series isbncatalog id price pages format type cover artist verif. Rudy rucker shared his experience discussing agency with william gibson. In white light rucker commandingly synthesizes mysticism, pop imagery. This acclaimed book by rudy rucker is available at in several formats for your ereader. His thirty published books include both novels and nonfiction books on the fourth dimension, infinity, and the meaning of computation.
In rucker s last novel, postsingular, the singularity happened and life on earth was transformed by the. Loco ebook by rudy rucker 9781466821989 rakuten kobo. William gibson rudy rucker is the most consistently brilliant imagination working in sf todaycharles stross. White light rudy rucker by yung shellenbarger issuu. The secret of life is about me in high school and college. 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. Its probably cliche to compare a book to taking hallucinogens, but thats how white light reads. 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. 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. Maybe thats jesuss voice, or the buddhas, or the white lights. My eleven or twelve novels thus far break into three groups. Rudy rucker 1946 is an american science fiction writer, and former professor of mathematics and computer science.
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