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The Secret of Life Kindle Edition

by Rudy Rucker (Author) Format: Kindle Edition
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"Rucker is an artist well worth discovering, reading, andkeeping up with. His novels sparkle with deadpan wit and a naturalstoryteller's flair, blending mathematical speculation, Hilbert space, rock'n'roll, drugs, and sex with imaginative ideas worthy ofH.G.Wells."  -- WashingtonPost Book World.
 
"One of the writers we will follow into the new future."   -- RaleighSpectator.

About the Author

Rudy Rucker is a writer and a mathematician who worked for twenty years as a Silicon Valley computer science professor. He is regarded as contemporary master of science-fiction, and received the Philip K. Dick award twice. His thirty published books include both novels and non-fiction books on the fourth dimension, infinity, and the meaning of computation. A founder of the cyberpunk school of science-fiction, Rucker also writes SF in a realistic style known as transrealism, often including himself as a character. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area. --This text refers to the paperback edition.

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  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ B00QXNAMNS
  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Transreal Books (December 11, 2014)
  • Publication date ‏ : ‎ December 11, 2014
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • File size ‏ : ‎ 1529 KB
  • Simultaneous device usage ‏ : ‎ Unlimited
  • Text-to-Speech ‏ : ‎ Enabled
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  • Enhanced typesetting ‏ : ‎ Enabled
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  • Word Wise ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • Sticky notes ‏ : ‎ On Kindle Scribe
  • Print length ‏ : ‎ 218 pages
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Rudy Rucker has written forty books, both pop science. and SF novels in the cyberpunk and transreal styles. He received Philip K. Dick awards for for the novels in his "Ware Tetralogy". His "Complete Stories," and his nonfiction "The Fourth Dimension" are standouts. He worked as a professor of computer science in Silicon Valley for twenty years. He paints works relating to his tales. His latest novel "Juicy Ghosts" is about telepathy, immortality, and a new revolution. Rudy blogs at www.rudyrucker.com/blog

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