Nested Scrolls: The Autobiography of Rudolf von Bitter Rucker

Rucker, Rudy

ISBN 10: 076532752X / ISBN 13: 9780765327529

Published by Tor, New York, 2012

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New York: Tor:, 2012. Advance Uncorrected Proof, Trade paperback, Fine, 327 pp. Cover artwork by: Jamie Stafford-Hill Advance Uncorrected Proof, Trade paperback, Fine,

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Nested Scrolls: The Autobiography of Rudolf von Bitter Rucker
• Publisher: Tor, New York
• Publication Date: 2012
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 076532752X
• ISBN 13: 9780765327529
• Binding: Soft cover
• Illustrator: Jamie Stafford-Hill

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Synopsis

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.

About the Author

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