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.
Harriet Klausner is the world's most prolific reviewer. She is also the world's most positive. As far as I can tell from reading some of her many hundreds of reviews, she likes everything. She's an uncritical and enthusiastic bibliophile. You can find her reviews scattered all over the 'net, on Amazon, in chat rooms, anywhere a person can post a book review, there you'll find Harriet Klausner. I don't think she's ever actually sold any of her reviews, but who cares?