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Hey there book reading type peoples! I've finished reading Rucker's Spaceland, which is a tribute to Edwin A Abbott's Flatland. It was great fun! Fast paced, full of craziness in the way only Rucker can write it.
Rucker, who is a mathematician, computer scientist, and professor, writes great sci-fi that comes straight outta' the imaginative side of his proffesions. You get wacked out stories that have their basis in mathematical and scientific knowledge.
Other fiction by Rucker that I've read include: the whole Ware series (Software, Wetware, Freeware, and Realware), The Hacker and the Ants, White Light, Spacetime Donuts, and Master of Space and Time. I have never been disappointed by a Rucker book. They are always fun, full of characters with personality, and they read like a breeze.
He also writes some non-fiction, of which I've read The Fourth Dimension, and Infinity and the Mind. These are great in their ability to give the reader and accessible account of what are otherwise quite abstract and complicated notions.
If you like sci-fi, I highly recommend Rucker. Or if you read Rucker and want to talk about him and his works, then have at it! |
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