The Sex Sphere

Overview

Punk-rock SF! Nuclear terrorists, a political kidnapping, and a giant woman from the fourth dimension. Say goodbye to the old world. This literary tour de force explores the landscape of the higher dimensions with the humor and vigor of an underground cartoon. At the same time, it manages to be a heartfelt and realistic depiction of a contemporary marriage.

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Bio of Rudy Rucker

Rudy Rucker was born in Louisville, Kentucky, on March 22, 1946. He graduated from Swarthmore College, and went to grad school at Rutgers University, where he got a Ph.D. in Mathematics in 1972. His area of specialization was the theory of infinite sets. In 1967, he married his college sweetheart Sylvia, and not too long after that they had their three children: Georgia, Rudy, Jr., and Isabel. Rucker's first job was as a math professor at the State University College at Geneseo, New York, from 1972-1978. He was teaching a "Higher Geometry" course there, and turned it into a series of lectures on the fourth dimension. Eventually he wrote the lectures up as the non-fiction work, Geometry, Relativity and The Fourth Dimension, his first book. He also started writing science fiction, publishing his first novel Spacetime Donuts in the magazine Unearth, and eventually selling it to Ace Books. In 1978-1980 Rucker had a grant from the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, which is funded by the German government. He and his family lived in Heidelberg for two years and in his quiet office in the Mathematics Institute of the University of Heidelberg, Rucker worked Infinity and the Mind, a popular science book about infinity. At the same time he continued his work in science fiction, writing two novels: White Light and the early cyberpunk work Software. Next Rucker was a math professor and then a freelance writer in Lynchburg, Virginia, for six years, writing his radical SF novel The Sex Sphere, as well as his best-selling popular science book, The Fourth Dimension. This period marked the birth of cyberpunk science-fiction, and he became recognized as a founding father of the movement. His novels Software and Wetware each won a Philip K. Dick Award for best paperback SF novel of the year. While freelancing in Lynchburg, Rucker also developed a style of writing which he calls transrealism. The essence of transrealism is to write about one's real life in fantastic terms. The Secret of Life, White Light, and The Sex Sphere are examples of his transreal novels. The first recasts a traditional coming of age memoir as a UFO novel, the second is about his time as a mystical mathematician in Geneseo, while the third turns his two years in Germany into a tale of higher dimensions and nuclear terrorism. In 1986, Rucker got a job as a professor at San Jose State University (SJSU), near San Francisco, and in the heart of Silicon Valley. As a farewell to Lynchburg, Rucker wrote a historical science fiction novel called The Hollow Earth, which is now described as an early steampunk book. In California, he got involved with the magazine MONDO 2000, edited by a collection of Berkeley characters interested in cyberculture. Thanks to MONDO's influence, "cyberpunk" became something of a household word, taking on a broader meaning and even appearing on the cover of Time. Rucker co-edited the MONDO 2000 User's Guide with R. U. Sirius and Queen Mu.

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1.25 MB

Number of Pages

192

eBook ISBN

0759285888