Rudy Rucker
Gnarl!

Multitalented creature though he is — mathematician, computer scientist, essayist — Rudy Rucker is best known for his groundbreaking science fiction. And yet it has been seventeen years since Rucker's last major story collection.

The companion volume to Seek!, his selected nonfiction, Gnarl! brings together three dozen of Rucker's best, many of them newly revised by the author. The collection includes previously unanthologized stories written together with Bruce Sterling and Paul Di Filippo and one previously unpublished story written with Marc Laidlaw. A classic such as "The Fifty-Seventh Franz Kafka," a meditation on cloning that is part horror, part farce, is side-by-side with a "pseudo-memoir" — a Ruckerian specialty — "The Indian Rope Trick Explained." Throughout, there is the unique Rucker mix: cutting-edge physics, a wild but perversely logical imagination, and a decidedly punk attitude. Also included is an extensive "Notes on the Stories" section detailing each story's genesis.

Rudy Rucker is professor of computer science at San Jose State University. He has won two Philip K. Dick Awards for best paperback novel of the year. He has written four nonfiction books, ten works of fiction (prominent among them his Ware tetralogy), and one "pseudo-fictional memoir."

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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