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.

Blogging Loony Fundy Nonsense (of all religions): the Pagan Prattle is neither prattle nor particularly pagan, but cynical as hell. Link Discuss

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Are you heavily into new tech toys? If so, The Gadgeteer is the review site you've been looking for. Link Discuss

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Astronautix.com -- the ultimate encyclopaedia of all space-program related things that go fast and [sometimes] explode. Link Discuss

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Ever wondered why we're here having this discussion? The anthropic principle is the hot intersection of science and philosophy -- an attempt to establish how observational selection can be used as a tool in studying the universe around us. Mind-bending stuff. Link Discuss

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Fun blog of the day: Gary Farber, usenet rent-a-pundit and SF fan maintains Amygdala. Link Discuss

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They fight crime! Link Discuss

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Short on reading matter? Infinity Plus is a website run by Brit SF author Keith Brooke. It specialises in republishing short stories that have gone out of print, with the collusion of their authors -- there's also a spin-off series of anthologies. link Discuss

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When I grow up I want a Matrioshka Brain for my PC! (A Matrioshka brain is what you get when you cross nanotechnology, Moore's law, and cosmological engineering to the limit -- a computing network at the atomic scale, built using all the available mass of a solar system. Sort of a Dyson sphere for the internet generation.)

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