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Rudy Rucker

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(person) by crablouie (5.9 y) (print)   ?   (I like it!) Sat Nov 13 1999 at 9:30:43

SciFi author of the "The Hacker and the Ants". Also the robot (boppers) vs humans trilogy of "Software", "Wetware", and "Freeware". Good interesting author who actually understands programming and robotics. Or maybe I don't understand those two subjects and just think he does.

(person) by jutta (4.9 y) (print)   ?   (I like it!) Sat Nov 13 1999 at 9:30:44

Math and computer science professor, programmer, and cyberpunk writer who dresses better, has a cooler name, and writes more sex scenes in his books than William Gibson and Bruce Sterling. Computer geeks might also enjoy the Actual Computer Science Concepts and dry satire permeating the books, although some of the prose and characters connecting it come off as corny, at least compared to, say, Neal Stephenson's.

(person) by v3rgez (2.8 mon) (print)   ?   (I like it!) Tue May 09 2000 at 2:02:44

Note: The following is an opinion, not fact. It is anti-Rudy, and is based on one (half) reading of his books. Rudy, well, as far as i can tell, can't write. There was little symbolism or basically anything of real substance in his book "software", most of which consisted of sex between humans and squishies, an act that the reader doesn't need to hear about twice, let alone 30 times. See Stephenson for cyberpunkfun, and William Gibson for symbolism and all that deep stuff.

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