| Rudy Rucker  AKA Rudolf von Bitter Rucker
Born: 22-Mar-1946
Birthplace: Louisville, KY
Gender: Male
Religion: Anglican/Episcopalian
Race or Ethnicity: White
Sexual orientation: Straight
Occupation: Novelist, Mathematician, Computer Programmer Nationality: United States
Executive summary: Author of Wetware series Rudy Rucker is an American mathematician and science fiction writer, author of Software, Wetware, and Freeware. He has written fiction in what he calls the "transreal" style, where characters and plot elements are based on reality, giving the author's own life the fantasma-allegorical treatment. Alongside William Gibson, Bruce Sterling, and others, Rucker is often credited as a founding father of cyberpunk. Some readers, however, argue that Rucker's work is just too enjoyable and optimistic to be considered cyberpunk, lacking the genre's generally dehumanized, dystopian, and depressing outlook.
Rucker was a Professor of Computer Science at San Jose State University until 2004, where he mostly lectured on computer graphics and game programming. Rucker is co-editor of Speculations in Science and Technology, a scientific journal. He sometimes calls himself Rudy Rucker the Elder, to distinguish himself from his son, Rudy von Bitter Rucker, Jr.
Father: Embry Cobb Rucker (furniture maker and, later, Episcopal priest)
Mother: Marianne von Bitter (housewife)
Brother: Embry Rucker Jr.
Wife: Sylvia Bogsch (teacher, two daughters, one son)
Daughter: Georgia Rucker
Son: Rudy Rucker, Jr. (Monkeybrains ISP)
Daughter: Isabel Rucker
High School: St. Xavier High School, Louisville, KY (1963)
University: BS Mathematics, Swarthmore College (1967)
University: MS Mathematics, Rutgers University (1969)
University: PhD Mathematical Logic, Rutgers University (1973)
Professor: SUNY Geneseo (1973)
Professor: University of Heidelberg (1979)
Professor: Randolph-Macon Woman's College, Lynchburg, VA (1982)
Professor: Computer Science, San Jose State University (1986-2004)
Church of the SubGenius
Official Website:
http://www.rudyrucker.com/
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