Rudy Rucker
At some point in his career, Rudy Rucker received the Philip K. Dick Award, one of science fiction's recognized prizes — a distinction that reflects the place his fiction has come to occupy within the genre.
Born on March 22, 1946, in Louisville, Rucker followed an academic path that took him from St. Xavier High School to Swarthmore College and then to Rutgers University. He went on to work as a mathematician, a computer scientist, and a university teacher, building a professional life that sits at an unusual intersection of technical and creative disciplines. Writing in English, he has worked as a novelist and a science fiction writer, with fantasy also among his genres.
The Ware Tetralogy stands as his most noted fictional work. Rucker received the Philip K. Dick Award during his career, and the Ware Tetralogy remains the work most closely associated with his name as a novelist. As a United States citizen who has worked across mathematics, computer science, fiction, and university teaching, he has maintained an active presence in science fiction literature, and the Ware Tetralogy continues to be the concrete anchor of his reputation as a writer.
Quotes by Rudy Rucker
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A day, whether six or seven ago, or more than six thousand years ago, is just as near to the present as yesterday. Why? Because all time is contained in the present Now-moment.
The basic idea is simple: All is One. Different religions just find different ways of expressing this universal truth.
At present, however, I don’t think the Net is a very good medium for books, books should really be inexpensive lightweight paperbacks you can bang around.
Advice to beginning SF writers? Write a lot, finish what you write, and when it’s done, keep sending it out for quite awhile.
Electronic distribution is more of a fall-back strategy for putting out a book that isn’t deemed profitable enough to print. You hardly make any money publishing an electronic book.
If you think of your life as a kind of computation, it’s quite abundantly clear that there’s not going to be a final answer and there won’t be anything particularly wonderful about having the computation halt!
As Aquinas, the quintessential theologian, says: “The notion of form is most fully realized in existence itself. And in God existence is not acquired by anything, but God is existence itself subsistent. It is clear, then, that God himself is both limitless and perfect.”28.