Industry Reviews
Praise for White Light
"White Light is a good, intelligent, powerful novel, and the most auspicious debut in the SF field since I don't know when." -Thomas M. Disch, Fantasy & Science Fiction
"In White Light Rucker commandingly synthesizes mysticism, pop imagery, the Devil Himself, Jesus Christ, the great mathematicians and their ideas, 'head culture,' and even voodoo into a novel that takes us on a wild journey to infinity, to the Absolute, and back again. As for sheer writing, there's probably no one like him." -John Shirley
"A marvelously inventive and lunatically logical story, where not only is the scaling of infinity a mad, convincing adventure, but where ordinary human happiness matters too movingly." -Ian Watson, Vector
"An adventure through time and space, the likes of which only a collaboration between Umberto Eco and Lewis Carroll could attempt . . . each turned corner of White Light is another gleeful surprise, another celebration of cleverness and imagination." -Amazon.com
Praise for Rudy Rucker
"Rudy Rucker should be declared a National Treasure of American Science Fiction. Someone simultaneously channeling Kurt Goedel and Lenny Bruce might start to approximate full-on Ruckerian warp-space, but without the sweet, human, splendidly goofy Rudy-ness at the core of the singularity." -William Gibson
"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. Wild math you can get elsewhere, but no one does the cyber version of beatnik glory quite like Rucker. " -New York Review of Science Fiction
"For some two decades now, since the publication of his first novel, White Light, Rucker has combined an easygoing, trippy style influenced by the Beats with a deep engagement with knotty (or 'gnarly,' to employ one of his favorite terms) intellectual conceits, based mainly in mathematics. In the typical Rucker novel, likably eccentric characters-who run the gamut from brilliant to near-certifiable-encounter aspects of the universe that confirm that life is weirder than we can imagine. " -The Washington Post
"Rudy Rucker is the most consistently brilliant imagination working in SF today. " - Charles Stross, author of The Laundry Files
"Reading a Rudy Rucker book is like finding Poe, Kerouac, Lewis Carroll, and Philip K. Dick parked on your driveway in a topless '57 Caddy . . . and telling you they're taking you for a RIDE. The funniest science fiction author around. " -Sci-Fi Universe
"Rucker [gives you] more ideas per chapter than most authors use in an entire novel. " -San Francisco Chronicle
Praise for White Light
"White Light is a good, intelligent, powerful novel, and the most auspicious debut in the SF field since I don't know when." -Thomas M. Disch, Fantasy & Science Fiction
"In White Light Rucker commandingly synthesizes mysticism, pop imagery, the Devil Himself, Jesus Christ, the great mathematicians and their ideas, 'head culture,' and even voodoo into a novel that takes us on a wild journey to infinity, to the Absolute, and back again. As for sheer writing, there's probably no one like him." -John Shirley
"A marvelously inventive and lunatically logical story, where not only is the scaling of infinity a mad, convincing adventure, but where ordinary human happiness matters too movingly." -Ian Watson, Vector
"An adventure through time and space, the likes of which only a collaboration between Umberto Eco and Lewis Carroll could attempt . . . each turned corner of White Light is another gleeful surprise, another celebration of cleverness and imagination." -Amazon.com
Praise for Rudy Rucker
"Rudy Rucker should be declared a National Treasure of American Science Fiction. Someone simultaneously channeling Kurt Goedel and Lenny Bruce might start to approximate full-on Ruckerian warp-space, but without the sweet, human, splendidly goofy Rudy-ness at the core of the singularity." -William Gibson
"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. Wild math you can get elsewhere, but no one does the cyber version of beatnik glory quite like Rucker. " -New York Review of Science Fiction
"For some two decades now, since the publication of his first novel, White Light, Rucker has combined an easygoing, trippy style influenced by the Beats with a deep engagement with knotty (or 'gnarly,' to employ one of his favorite terms) intellectual conceits, based mainly in mathematics. In the typical Rucker novel, likably eccentric characters-who run the gamut from brilliant to near-certifiable-encounter aspects of the universe that confirm that life is weirder than we can imagine. " -The Washington Post
"Rudy Rucker is the most consistently brilliant imagination working in SF today. " - Charles Stross, author of The Laundry Files
"Reading a Rudy Rucker book is like finding Poe, Kerouac, Lewis Carroll, and Philip K. Dick parked on your driveway in a topless '57 Caddy . . . and telling you they're taking you for a RIDE. The funniest science fiction author around. " -Sci-Fi Universe
"Rucker [gives you] more ideas per chapter than most authors use in an entire novel. " -San Francisco Chronicle
