Synopsis
While apparently living the life of a child of the sixties, keeping his head together with sex, drugs, and adventure, Conrad Bunger is actually carrying out the mission that brought him to Earth from a distant planet--to find the secret of life
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About the Author
Rudy Rucker is a writer, a mathematician, and a former computer science prof. He received Philip K. Dick awards for his cyberpunk novels Software and Wetware, and an Emperor Norton award for his autobiography Nested Scrolls. Recent titles include a novel, The Big Aha, and Complete Stories.
Review
"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.
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Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. Illustrated by Richard Berry (illustrator). 1st Edition; 1st Printing. Cover Art; This is a review copy. This book is in Near Fine condition and has a Near Fine dust jacket. The book includes a laid in review page from Bluejay books. "On March 22, 1956, an alien spacecraft from a distant planet discharges one of its passengers, a bright creature of flame, on a field of a Louisville, Kentucky farm. The flame being butchers a pig, shaping it into a human body for itself that becomes ten-year-old Conrad Bunger. Conrad's human family, which remembers Conrad as their own, accepts him, and he grows up, not realizing that he is of alien origin." "Rudolf von Bitter Rucker (born March 22, 1946) is an American mathematician, [1] computer scientist, science fiction author, and one of the founders of the cyberpunk literary movement. The author of both fiction and non-fiction, he is best known for the novels in the Ware Tetralogy, the first two of which (Software and Wetware) both won Philip K. Dick Awards. Until its closure in 2014 he edited the science fiction webzine Flurb." "As his "own alternative to cyberpunk," Rucker developed a writing style he terms transrealism. Transrealism, as outlined in his 1983 essay "The Transrealist Manifesto", is science fiction based on the author's own life and immediate perceptions, mixed with fantastic elements that symbolize psychological change. Many of Rucker's novels and short stories apply these ideas. One example of Rucker's transrealist works is Saucer Wisdom, a novel in which the main character is abducted by aliens. Rucker and his publisher marketed the book, tongue in cheek, as non-fiction.". Seller Inventory # A34199