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Nested Scrolls: The Autobiography of Rudolf von Bitter Rucker Hardback - 2011

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Author: Rucker, Rudy
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"Nested Scrolls" reveals the true life adventures of Rudolf von Bitter "Rudy" Rucker--mathematician, transrealist author, punk rocker, and computer hacker. It begins with a young boy growing up in Louisville, Kentucky, the son of a businessman father who becomes a clergyman, and a mother descended from the philosopher Hegel. His career goals? To explore infinity, popularize the fourth dimension, seek the gnarl, become a beatnik writer, and father a family.

All the while Rudy is reading science fiction and beat poetry, and beginning to write some pretty strange fiction of his own--a blend of Philip K. Dick and hard SF that qualifies him as part of the original circle of writers in the early 1980s that includes Bruce Sterling, William Gibson, John Shirley, and Lewis Shiner, who were the founders of cyberpunk.

At one level, Rucker's genial and unfettered memoir brings us a first-hand account of how he and his contemporaries ushered in our postmodern world. At another, this is the wry and moving tale of a man making his way from one turbulent century to the next.

"Nested Scrolls" is like its author: sweet, gentle, honest, and intellectually fierce.

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Title Nested Scrolls: The Autobiography of Rudolf von Bitter Rucker
Author Rudy Rucker
Binding Hardback
Edition First Edition
Pages 327
Volumes 1
Language ENG
Publisher Tor Books, New York
Publication date 2011
Illustrated Yes
ISBN 9780765327529 / 076532752X
Weight 0.91 lbs (0.41 kg)
Dimensions 8.38 x 6.38 x 1.16 in (21.29 x 16.21 x 2.95 cm)
Category Biography / Autobiography
Library of Congress subjects Rucker, Rudy v. B
Library of Congress Catalogue Number 2011024290
Dewey Decimal Code B

About the author

RUDY RUCKER lives in Los Gatos, California. He has twice won the Philip K. Dick Award.

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