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Rudy Rucker
Author
Publisher
Forge
Pub. Date
2002
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
320 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Peter Bruegel's paintings---a peasant wedding in a barn, hunters in the snow, a rollicking street festival, and many others---have long defined our idea of everyday life in sixteenth century Europe. They are classic icons of a time and place in much the same way as Norman Rockwell's depictions of twentieth-century America. We know relatively little about Bruegel, but after years of research, novelist Rudy Rucker has built upon what is known and has...
2) Postsingular
Author
Series
Publisher
Tor
Pub. Date
2007
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
320 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
It all begins next year in California. A maladjusted computer industry billionaire and a somewhat crazy US President initiate a radical transformation of the world through sentient nanotechnology; sort of the equivalent of biological artificial intelligence. At first, they succeed, but their plans are reversed by Chu, an autistic boy. The next time it isn't so easy to stop them.
Most of the story takes place in a world after a heretofore unimaginable...
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin
Pub. Date
1987
Physical Desc
viii, 328 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
This reader-friendly volume groups the patterns of mathematics into five archetypes: numbers, space, logic, infinity, and information. Rudy Rucker presents an accessible introduction to each of these important areas, reflecting intelligence gathered from the frontiers of mathematical thought. More than 100 drawings illuminate explorations of digital versus analog processes, logic as a computing tool, communication as information transmission, and...
Author
Publisher
Night Shade Books
Pub. Date
2019.
Edition
First Night Shade Books edition.
Physical Desc
469 pages : illustrations ; 19 cm
Language
English
Description
When a seemingly-innocent trumpet solo somehow opens a transdimensional connection to Mappyworld, a parallel universe containing a single, endless plain divided by ridges into basin-like worlds, three California teens find themselves taken on a million mile road trip across a landscape of alien civilizations in a beat-up, purple 80s wagon . . . with a dark-energy motor, graphene tires and quantum shocks, of course. Their goal? To stop carnivorous...
Author
Publisher
Tor
Pub. Date
2006
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
364 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Friends Bela and Paul, two young mathematicians in love with the same woman, Bela's girlfriend Alma, embark on a reality-changing competition to see who gets the girl, unleashing a nightmarish and unexpected future in the process.
