The national librarys reading room is a wonderful space, barrelvaulted and the vault coffered, with the individual squares painted different shades of blue. Rudy rucker is a mathematician and computer scientist, core cpunk, and prolific writer of fiction, fact, and areas less easily categorized. A novel of the fourth dimension tom doherty associates books. Rudy rucker is a past master at turning mathematical concepts into rollicking science fiction adventure, from spacetime donuts and white light to the hacker and the ants. Square who receives a surprise visit from a higherdimensional sphere, rudy rucker s spaceland describes the life of joe cube, an average, modernday. Momo paused, as if agitated by the thought of the dronners. This book has everything a rudy rucker novel needs. The book and its contents are in clean, bright condition. On new years eve, hoping to impress his wife, he sneaks home the prototype. Read spaceland a novel of the fourth dimension by rudy rucker available from rakuten kobo. Rudy is the greatgreatgreatgrandson of georg wilhelm friedrich hegel.
May 04, 2017 open library is an open, editable library catalog, building towards a web page for every book ever published. Spaceland by rudy rucker 9780765303677 boomerang books. Jul 04, 2003 in spaceland, what rucker wants to share with you is the ability to wrap your brain around spatial dimensions, from single points 1, to lines and planes 2, our everyday world of solids with height, width, and depth 3, up to a 4dimensional world in which people, places, and things have our 3 dimensions plus one. In a tribute to edwin abbott abbotts flatland 1884, a classic mathematical fantasy about a universe of several dimensions, rudy rucker s spaceland describes the life of joe cube, a silicon valley hotshot who discovers the fourth dimension from an unexpected visitation from momo, a woman from 4d.
Occasionally tasteless tale of a technogeeks misadventures in fourthdimensional space, from the prolific mathematician and sf writer gnarl. How i need a drink, alcoholic of course, after the heavy lectures involving quantum mechanics. The eclectic rucker is both a mathematician and sciencefiction guru, and with the cold logic of the one and the inspired vision of the other, he covers an array of topics sure to stimulate your. Republished by transreal books, with an intro by rudy. Use features like bookmarks, note taking and highlighting while reading spaceland. His topics include artificial life, chaos, the big bang, pieter brueghel, the church of the subgenius, live sex, mathematics, science fiction, and tv evangelism. Abbotts classic novel, flatland, rucker gives us a tour of higher mathematics and. A computer scientist and programmer, rucker is an articulate. Jul 04, 2003 joe is having the time of his life, until momos scheme turns out to have angles he couldnt have imagined. Borrowing abbotts structure and terminology to fuel a similar thought experiment, rucker begins with a concrete, recognizable modern world, then bends it into the kind of extremes he reached in such frenetic, twisty fantasytech books as the. Rudy rucker books, ebooks, audiobooks, biography barnes. It brings no new warmth to their cooling relationship, but it does attract someone. Numerous and frequentlyupdated resource results are available from this search. He combines all his strengths in spaceland, a wild novel about contact with the beings who inhabit the fourth dimension.
Like abbott before him, rucker leavens the mindbending theoretical aspects of his novel with humor, a sense of creative exploration, and. Dick award for best sf paperback original, and has published a number of successful popular books on mathematical subjects, including the fourth dimension and infinity and the mind. I sit in this room thinking about hyperspace viewpoints. Rudy rucker has one of the most fertile and flexible minds. Spaceland by rudy rucker, 2002, tom doherty edition, in english spaceland. Joe cube is a silicon valley hotshotwell, a wouldbe hotshot anywayho. Rudy v b rucker silicon valley researcher joe cube recieves an offer from momo, a woman from the all, a world of four spacial dimensions. Rudy rucker is a past master at turning mathematical concepts into rollicking science fiction adventure, from spacetime donutsandwhite light to the hacker and the ants. He combines all his strengths in spaceland, a wild novel about contact with. In a tribute to edwin abbott abbotts flatland 1884, a classic mathematical fantasy about a universe of several dimensions, rudy ruckers spaceland describes the life of joe cube, a silicon valley hotshot who discovers the fourth dimension from an unexpected visitation from momo, a woman from 4d. Spaceland is a continuation of the ruminations on dimensionality first begun over one hundred years ago in abbots flatland, continued in the 60s with sphereland, culminating or maybe not with rucker s spaceland.
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Spaceland book las vegasclark county library district. That bad news is that a dream of flatland, an excerpt from rudy ruckers novel spaceland, is no longer available on the infinite matrix website the good news is that spaceland will be published in june by tor books. Spaceland isbn 9780765303677 pdf epub rudy rucker ebook. Mathematician, computer scientist, and twotime winner of the philip k. Spaceland by rudy rucker meet your next favorite book. Buy spaceland by rudy rucker from australias online independent bookstore, boomerang books. Spaceland is a science fiction novel by american mathematician and computer scientist rudy rucker, and published in 2002 by tor books in a tribute to edwin abbotts flatland, a classic mathematical fantasy about a 2dimensional being a. See all books authored by rudy rucker, including infinity and the mind. Rudy rucker is a mathematician, computer scientist, professor and writer who has twice won the philip k. Oclcs webjunction has pulled together information and resources to assist library. At that time it will be available from fine bookstores and i hope a few seedy ones in cyberspace and meatspace alike. He is considered one of the founders of the cyberpunk movement and has been celebrated for both his science fiction and his books on mathematics and the universe.
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Joe cube is a silicon valley hotshotwell, a wouldbe hotshot anywayhoping that the 3d tv project hes managing will lead to the big money ipo hes always dreamed of. The product manager for a silicon valley startup, joe cube thinks the best way to enter the new millennium is to stay safely home with his wife and watch the year. This is the basic technological twist of spaceland, the latest foray into four dimensional scifi by rudy rucker, a mathematician and computer scientist who has. Pictures at an exhibition, sort of, as mathematician and sf writer rucker spaceland, p. Rudy rucker 1946 is an american mathematician, computer scientist, and author. Spaceland rudy rucker joe cube is a silicon valley hotshotwell, a wouldbe hotshot anywayhoping that the 3d tv project hes managing will lead to the big money ipo hes always dreamed of. Download it once and read it on your kindle device, pc, phones or tablets. In white light, third edition, for example, he passed on his favorite mnemonic for the first several digits of pi. Taking current mathematical understandings to absurd extremes, rucker attempts a selfconsciously hip genre satire that is also a postmodern revision of edwin abbotts twodimensional allegory flatland, failing at both. This book is in near fine condition and has a near fine dust jacket. Joe cube is a silicon valley hotshotwell, a wouldbe hotshot anyway. Mathematician and longtime sciencefiction wonk rudy rucker takes the next logical step with spaceland.
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Reliable information about the coronavirus covid19 is available from the world health organization current situation, international travel. My people the kluppers, live up above it, and another fold called the dronners live down below. A guided tour of the higher universes, and more on. Spaceland is a continuation of the ruminations on dimensionality first begun over one hundred years ago in abbots flatland, continued in the 60s with sphereland, culminating or maybe not with ruckers spaceland.