Rudy Rucker

Rudy Rucker is a writer, a mathematician and a computer scientist. Born in Kentucky in 1946, Rucker moved to Silicon Valley when he turned 40. Rucker has published twenty-five books, primarily science-fiction and popular science. He was an early cyberpunk and an editor at Mondo 2000. He often writes SF in a style is characterized as transreal. His most recent novels were Frek and the Elixir, a far-future epic about a boy's galactic quest to restore Earth's ecology and As Above So Below, a historical novel based on the life of the sixteenth century painter Peter Bruegel.  Rucker is a professor emeritus of computer science at San Jose State University, where he created a number of freeware programs relating to chaos, artificial life, cellular automata, higher dimensions, and computer games. He is presently working on The Lifebox, the Seashell and the Soul, a nonfiction book about computers and the nature of reality. Rucker's website can be found at www.cs.sjsu.edu/faculty/rucker or at www.rudyrucker.com.

Here's physics play room. Boing the springs, re-design molecules and even play with the math if you like. Link Discuss

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The Washington Post reports that domestic terrorists have sent 'anthrax' letters full of mystery powder to over ninety Planned Parenthood and abortion clinics throughout the U.S. Here in Buffalo a friend who works in an abortion clinic ruefully said that after 9-11 we would all know how the workers in her clinic had been feeling for years. Link Discuss

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If you like genre fiction and can't find that perfect title, check out Basement Full Of Books, a website maintained by SFF.net. Authors sell their backlist, used books and collections directly to their fans. No middle man needed and more of the profits go to the authors. Link Discuss

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I needed a complete break from the world so I bought Nancy Milford's new biography of Edna St.Vincent Millay, the jazz age libertine who was one of the finest poets of the 20th century. It was a smart move..

After terrible dreams,
After crying in sleep,
Grief beyond thought, twisting of hands,
tears from shut lids wetting the pillow,
shall come sun on the wall,
shall come sounds from the street, children at play.
Bubbles too big blown, and dreams filled too heavy with horror shall burst and in mist fall.
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When I sell the movie rights, I'm goin' here! Writing implements and furniture so beautiful they make your fingers itch to touch them. Link Discuss

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