A direct descendant of philosopher G.W. Hegel, Rudy Rucker is a mathematician, science author (The Fourth Dimension), on-line editor (Flurb), award-winning SF writer (two Philip K. Dick Awards), and confirmed computer geek. A native of Kentucky, he lives in Silicon Valley with his wife, a Hungarian princess.
Surfing the Gnarl
SKU: 9781604863093
Author: Rudy Rucker
Publisher: PM Press / Outspoken Author Series
ISBN: 9781604863093
Published: 1/2012
Format: Paperback
Size: 5 x 7.5
Page count: 128
Subjects: Fiction-Science Fiction
Praise
“Rudy Rucker should be declared a National Treasure of American Science Fiction…simultaneously channeling Kurt Gödel and Lenny Bruce!” —William Gibson, author of Neuromancer and Pattern Recognition
“Rucker is a mathematician bewitched by the absurdity of the universe, and a writer possessed of a brilliantly witty pen.” —Publishers Weekly
“Rudy Rucker’s sense of fun is rare indeed. He has been compared to Lewis Carroll, and the comparison is not presumptuous. Like Carroll, Rucker is a mathematician who not only enjoys paradoxes, but can propagate that enjoyment as pure lunatic humor.” —Washington Post
“Science-fiction author Rudy Rucker is an oddity and a treasure.” —Wired
“Rucker’s writing is great like the Ramones are great: a genre stripped to its essence, attitude up the wazoo, and cartoon sentiments that reek of identifiable lives and issues.” —New York Review of Science Fiction
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- Rudy Rucker’s Surfing the Gnarl: A Review
- Rudy Rucker’s Surfing the Gnarl on BoingBoing
- Surfing the Gnarl: City Book Review
- Surfing the Gnarl: A Publishers Weekly Review