Rudy Rucker

Rudy Rucker (1946 - )
Rudy Rucker is a writer, a mathematician, and a computer scientistA with thirty-two published books. In the 1980s he received Philip K. Dick awards for his cyberpunk novels Software and Wetware. He took up painting in 1999, and has had three shows of his pop-surreal works in San Francisco. His fantastic novel of the afterlife, Jim And The Flims appeared in 2011, as did his memoir, Nested Scrolls: A Writer's Life. He is presently working on a 1950s SF novel called The Turing Chronicles, featuring a love affair between computer pioneer Alan Turing and Beat author William Burroughs.