Just like felix rayman, falling into the white light. Night shade books, march, 2019, 4th edtion, with introduction by john shirley. White light book by rudy rucker, john shirley official. It focuses upon a cast of san franciscans and their relationship with emerging uses of nanotechnology. Rudy rucker project gutenberg selfpublishing ebooks read. Felix rayman spends the day teaching indifferent students, pondering hi. Rudy rucker resurrects a lost classic of psychedelia download. Works similar to white light, or what is cantors continuum problem. White light paperback published may 7th 2001 by four walls eight windows. In white light rucker commandingly synthesizes mysticism, pop imagery, the devil himself, jesus christ, the great mathematicians and their ideas, head culture, and even voodoo into a novel that takes us on a wild journey to infinity, to the absolute, and back again. Librarything is a cataloging and social networking site for booklovers. The silent army, a 2008 dutch film also known in dutch as wit licht or in english as white.
A hipster math professor travels to the afterworld. For example, white light examines the concept of infinity. As for sheer writing, theres probably no one like him. Buy a cheap copy of white light book by rudy rucker. Rudy rucker has one of the most fertile and flexible minds currently working on sf subject matter. The ware tetralogy by rudy rucker free ebook manybooks. You can also read the full text online using our ereader. Novelist, mathematician, computer programmer nationality. White light by rudy rucker perhaps i should say why i have read this book in the first place. White light examines the concept of infinity, while the ware tetralogy written from 1982 through 2000 is in part an explanation of the use of natural selection to develop software a subject also developed in.
The light that shines through infinity pdf download. Rudy rucker, all the interviews, updated november 15, 2004 all the interviews by rudy rucker last updated. Description more by rudy rucker cyberpunk million mile road trip mind tools the ware tetralogy transreal cyberpunk white light. Spacelandrudy rucker 20030704 activating an experimental. Bored with his life and job at a state university in new york and making no headway in solving georg cantors continuum problem, raymond finds himself every afternoon, lying flat on his floor, entering into a state of lucid dreaming that allows him to. Rucker often uses his novels to explore scientific or mathematical ideas. The secret of life, white light, and saucer wisdom.
He is best known for his ware tetralogy, the first two of which won philip k. The characters are onedimensional and archetypal, the plot is meandering, the pacing is loose, the twists are telegraphed and the prose is juvenile. Spaceland is a continuation of the ruminations on dimensionality first begun over one hundred years ago in abbots flatland, continued in the 60s with sphereland, culminating or maybe not with rucker s spaceland. In infinity and the mind, rudy rucker leads an excursion to that stretch of the universe he calls the mindscape, where he explores infinity in all its forms. Jack and the aktuals, or, physical applications of transfinite set theory by rudy rucker.
Or think of the world as a stainedglass window with light shining through every part. Author rudy rucker offers a unique vision of life, death, and the infinite worlds that lie beyond in this thoughtprovoking, inspiring, romanticand funny as. The secret of life is about me in high school and college. Jun 22, 2014 rudy rucker, spacetime donuts, 1981 actually the diagnostic tool known as a cat scan consists of a process something like this. The ware tetralogy is a series of four science fiction novels by author rudy rucker. Rudy rucker has 148 books on goodreads with 75756 ratings. As you mention, the hacker and the ants is part of the transreal series which includes the secret of life, spacetime donuts, and white light. Simon and schuster, tac gi rudy rucker, john shirley nxb night shade books nam xb 2019, tr.
Surreal, inventive, and a touch aimless, white light is full of wild invention and mindbending meditations on the nature of infinity. An icon used to represent a menu that can be toggled by interacting with this icon. Rudy rucker should be declared a national treasure of american science fiction. It was written while rucker was teaching mathematics at the university of heidelberg from 1978 to 1980, at roughly the same time he was working on the nonfiction book infinity and the mind. I think im going to try white light before i give up on rucker, just to figure out if hes a style cha. Rudy rucker simple english wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. A cult author tries to write about alien abductions. White light examines the concept of infinity, while the ware tetralogy written from 1982 through 2000 is in part an explanation of the use of natural selection to develop software a subject also developed in his the hacker and the ants, written in 1994. White light by rudy rucker author rudy rucker offers a unique vision of life, death, and the infinite worlds that lie beyond in this thoughtprovoking. Download ebook geometry relativity and the fourth dimension rudy rucker. The science and philosophy of the infinite rudy rucker. Software 1982, wetware 1988, freeware 1997 and realware 2000 the first two books both received the philip k. In infinity and the mind, rudy rucker leads an excursion to that stretch of the.
Transreal trilogy contains three of rudy rucker s transreal novels, which can also be purchased alone. Transrealism is about transmuting an authors ordinary life into sf. Download ebook the ware tetralogy rudy rucker pdf ebookstore. My pupils narrowed, leaving the room black once again.
My eleven or twelve novels thus far break into three groups. William gibson rudy rucker is the most consistently brilliant imagination working in. Praise for white light white light is a good, intelligent, powerful novel, and the most auspicious debut in the sf field since i dont know when. Malcontent mathematics instructor feliz raymonds afternoon naps are the subject of rudy rucker s strange and delightful white light. Nothing in this license impairs or restricts rudy rucker. Series isbncatalog id price pages format type cover artist verif. White light book by rudy rucker, john shirley official publisher. Mooney stepped over and frisked him, then flicked on the ceiling light. When his dreams finally separate him from his physical body. White light by rudy rucker and a great selection of related books, art and collectibles available now at. Rudy rucker is a mathematician, a set theorist to be precise, and this book, his opera prima, was written around a central theme. Mar 11, 2014 rudy rucker is the master of the mindexpanding, smileinducing, thinkfast, feelfast science fiction subgenre. Use features like bookmarks, note taking and highlighting while reading white light. It was the first of his works to be licensed under a creative commons license and released to the public on the internet.
White light, a song by gorillaz from the album demon days white light, a song by shura from the album nothings real. Praise for rudy rucker rudy rucker should be declared a national treasure of american science fiction. Rudy rucker is a past master at turning mathematical concepts into rollicking science fiction adventure, from spacetime donuts and white light to the hacker and the ants. In white light rucker commandingly synthesizes mysticism, pop imagery. To have seen a specter isnt everything, and there are deathmasks piled, one atop the other, clear to heaven. Rucker wrote his first transrealist novel, white light, while he was at heidelberg. In the novel white light 22, rudy rucker proposes a metaphor for the continuum hypothesis.
White light rudy rucker novel project gutenberg self. This is a collected edition of three of his wonderfully transreal novels think semiautobiographical dripped in the dazzingly scifi described above, pushed through the prose of a beatnik punk with a doctorate in math. Notes for return to the hollow earth, rudy ruckers booklength. This transrealist novel is based on his experiences at suny geneseo. Easily share your publications and get them in front of issuus. White light examines the concept of infinity, while the ware tetralogy written from 1982. Sep 15, 2016 i read somewhere, once, that rudy rucker was the original and actual father of cyberpunk, and that white light was his seminal work. All the interviews is my compilation in chronological order of all of the interview questions ive answered by email. White light 9781597809849 by rucker, rudy and a great selection of similar new, used and collectible books available now at great prices. Its probably cliche to compare a book to taking hallucinogens, but thats how white light reads. When things get tough, i find it relaxing and uplifting to imagine that im merging with the one. His earliest transreal novel, white light, was written during his time at. Felix rayman spends the day teaching indifferent students, pondering his theories on infinity, and daydreaming.
Rudy rucker, twotime winner of the prestigious philip k. William gibson rudy rucker is the most consistently brilliant imagination working in sf todaycharles stross. Dick award, is one of sf\s most inventive and irreverent. Rudy rucker is an american mathematician and science fiction writer, author of the ware tetralogy. Author of wetware series rudy rucker is an american mathematician and science fiction writer, author of. Im not sure i really buy that, but i can say this rudy rucker is certainly one of the most unique authors of his generation, and white light is a unique work among unique works. Rudy rucker is obviously a insert real profession first and a writer fourteenth. Download it once and read it on your kindle device, pc, phones or tablets. Abbotts classic novel, flatland, rucker gives us a tour of higher mathematics and visionary realities. White light rudy rucker by yung shellenbarger issuu. Author rudy rucker offers a unique vision of life, death, and the infinite worlds that lie beyond in this thoughtprovoking, inspiring, romanticand funny as hellmathematical sf novel. Presently, rudy rucker edits the science fiction webzine flurb. Even the students who read the novel white light by rudy rucker. White light is a work of science fiction by rudy rucker published in 1980 by virgin books in the uk and ace books in the us.
This book is available for free download in a number of formats including epub, pdf, azw, mobi and more. Mar 12, 2019 i read somewhere, once, that rudy rucker was the original and actual father of cyberpunk, and that white light was his seminal work. Geometry relativity and the fourth dimension rudy rucker. Rudy rucker, all the interviews, january 19, 2021 p. I read somewhere, once, that rudy rucker was the original and actual father of cyberpunk, and that white light was his seminal work. It was the first of his works to be licensed under a creative commons license and released to the public on the internet a sequel, hylozoic, was released in 2009, but was not released under a free license. Secret of life, white light, saucer wisdom, page 1 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35. Issuu is a digital publishing platform that makes it simple to publish magazines, catalogs, newspapers, books, and more online.
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