SEEK! by Rudy Rucker

"Free-ranging mind" is a description that only begins to touch on Rudy Rucker's brain. A Flower Child with a degree in advanced mathematics, Rucker, often labeled the father of cyberpunk, looks at the real world — or what passes for it — in Seek!

Unlike any other chronicler of the computer age, Rucker is both a professional programmer and a professional writer. His name is synonymous with the best in science fiction.

In this, the companion volume to Gnarl!, the collection of Rucker short stories coming out from Four Walls Eight Windows in spring 2000, Rucker lets his slightly zonked gaze rove on both sides of the computer screen. A computer scientist and industrial-strength programmer, Rucker is articulate, engaged, and deeply funny. He is the ideal participant-observer and the most genial of guides.

Alphabetically Seek!-ing, these are some of Rucker's topics: artificial life, beatniks, Big Bang, Peter Brueghel, cellular automata, chaos, chip fabrication, Church of the SubGenius, computers, cosmology, cyberpunk, cyberspace, Philip K. Dick, dogs, film, Japan, jugendstil, God, hackers, live sex, magic wishes, marijuana, mathematics, myticism, nanotechnology, Portugal, science fiction, sobriety, transrealism, TV evangelism, Van Gogh, virtual reality, writing, and Yosemite.

Rudy Rucker is professor of computer science at San Jose State University. He has lived in Silicon Valley since 1986. Born in 1946, he earned his Ph.D. at Rutgers. He has won two Philip K. Dick Awards for best paperback novel of the year, for Software (Avon, 1982) and Wetware (Avon, 1988). He has written four nonfiction books, prominent among them Infinity and the Mind (Bantam 1983, Princeton University Press 1995), and ten works of fiction. Software is now in preproduction with Hollywood's Phoenix Pictures.

Praise for Rudy Rucker:
"Rucker is a mathematician bewitched by the absurdity of the universe implied in quantum theory, and a writer possessed of a brilliantly witty pen." — Publishers Weekly

"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 Book World

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