Nested Scrolls

The Autobiography of Rudolf von Bitter Rucker

By: Rudy Rucker

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Hardcover | 6 December 2011

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The autobiography of Rudy Rucker begins in Louisville, Kentucky, with a young boy growing up with a desire to be a beatnik writer, a businessman father who becomes a clergyman, and a mother descended from the philosopher, Hegel. It continues through his college years, his romance with his wife, graduate school, rock music, and his college teaching jobs as a math professor. All the while Rudy is reading science fiction, beat poetry, and beginning to write some pretty strange fiction, a blend of Philip K. Dick and hard SF that qualifies him as part of the original circle of writers in the early 1980s, including Bruce Sterling, William Gibson, John Shirley, and Lew Shiner, who founded cyberpunk. He becomes known for his wild-man behavior, in the beatnik tradition.

Later, Rucker renames his fiction Transrealism (and now there is at least one academic book on the subject). In the mid-1980s he switches from math to computers, just in time for the computer revolution. By then he is living in Silicon Valley and teaching in Santa Cruz. As the '90s go by and his life evens out, he keeps writing and producing a unique and wildly imaginitive body of work in SF, usually math-based hard SF. And he's still doing that today. This book is sweet and gentle and honest, and intellectually fierce.

Industry Reviews

"Rucker is an artist well worth discovering, reading, and keeping up with... [His novels] sparkle with deadpan wit and a natural storyteller's flair.""--The Washington Post ""Science Fiction author-hero Rudy Rucker is an oddity and a treasure.... In these days of neat little marketing categories, few writers attempt to cover so much ground.""--Wired""Rudy Rucker is in possession of one of the world's most powerful and interesting minds... And he's holding it for ransom! "Nested Scrolls" is immensely entertaining, spirited and deep. This is Rudy Rucker at his thoughtful best." --Greg Bear, author of "Eon" "Rudy Rucker is the most consistently brilliant imagination working in SF today."--Charles Stross, author of the Merchant Princes series "Rucker's "Nested Scrolls" is a time machine set to move you from 1946 up to the present day Chaosium inside a capsule attached to Rudy's eyes, which let you see from the infra-red up into the colors of the gamma region, especially when he gets glasses after the age of nine. Travel through a roller-coaster life from the viewpoint of an imaginative boy who grew up to be a mathematician and then moved on into the many dimensional world of a multi-universe traveling writer. Don't forget to hang onto the rails."--Donald Kingsbury, author of "Courtship Rite" "Like all the best memoirists, Rudy Rucker allows us to glimpse through him the contours of our own lives, and to ponder, a little wistfully, why they couldn't have been more like his." --Paul Park, author of "A Princess of Roumania" ""Nested Scrolls" is a wild but good-hearted ride through the life of counter-culture mathematician and transrealist science fiction writer, Rudy Rucker. While his journeys toward becoming a writer, mathematician, and computer scientist are initially made easier by use of alcohol and recreational drug, eventually he has to choose to sober up or risk losing everything. It is a remarkable me

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