Author: Rudy Rucker Publisher: Transreal Books ISBN: 1940948193 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 318
Book Description
A cult novelist named Rudy Rucker investigates an alien abduction...and is drawn into freaky, transreal scenes. Futurism, autobiographical novel, a tour of Californai freakdom, and richly funny. With many, many line-drawing illos. "Rucker’s sensibility is a combination of gonzo humor, fictionalized autobiography in the Kerouacian mode (what Rucker calls “transrealism”), and the sheer, bugs-in-your-teeth thrill of scientific extrapolation taken to blitz-punk extremes." — Salon.com.
Author: Damien Broderick Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA ISBN: 0313003165 Category : Literary Criticism Languages : en Pages : 208
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Transrealist writing treats immediate perceptions in a fantastic way, according to science fiction writer and mathematician Rudy Rucker, who originated the term. In the expanded sense argued in this book, it also intensifies imaginative fiction by writing the fantastic from the standpoint of richly personalized experience. Transrealism is also related to slipstream writing, another category introduced into studies of speculative fiction to account for texts that seem to follow trajectories mapped by the huge body of science fiction accumulated in the last century, while retaining a central interest in traditional literary strategies. This book examines a variety of work from the transrealist perspective, something that has not been done previously. It emphasizes the texts of Philip K. Dick and Rucker himself, while it additionally engages the texts of such slipstream writers as Kurt Vonnegut, J.G. Ballard, and John Barth. It places its argument against the antihumanist trend in science fiction and builds comparisons with more traditional varieties of science fiction works.
Author: Rudy Rucker Publisher: Macmillan ISBN: 1466804882 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 646
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In the year 3003, nothing in the world is the same, except maybe that adolescents are still embarrassed by their parents. Society and the biosphere alike have been transformed by biotechnology, and the natural world is almost gone. Frek Huggins is a boy from a broken family, a misfit because he's a natural child, conceived without technological help or genetic modifications. His dad, Carb, is a malcontent who left behind Frek's mom and the Earth itself several years ago. Everything changes when Frek finds the Anvil, a small flying saucer, under his bed, and it tells him he is destined to save the world. The repressive forces of Gov, the mysterious absolute ruler of Earth, descend on Frek, take away the Anvil, and interrogate him forcefully enough to damage his memory. Frek flees with Wow, his talking dog, to seek out Carb and some answers. But the untrustworthy alien in the saucer has other plans, including claiming exclusive rights to market humanity to the galaxy at large, and making Frek a hero. Frek and the Elixir is a profound, playful SF epic by the wild and ambitious Rudy Rucker. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.
Author: Rudy Rucker Publisher: Transreal Books ISBN: 0985827203 Category : Literary Collections Languages : en Pages : 1313
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Ride the wave with Rudy Rucker---author, programmer, mathematician, professor, cyberpunk, hipster, transrealist, and family man. A writer’s journey. Rucker composed "Journals: 1990-2014" over twenty-five years. A long-running adventure. Entries include: Introspection and philosophizing, sketches of daily life, descriptions of Rucker's travels, and notes on writing.
Author: Brian Stableford Publisher: Routledge ISBN: 1135923744 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 756
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Science fiction is a literary genre based on scientific speculation. Works of science fiction use the ideas and the vocabulary of all sciences to create valid narratives that explore the future effects of science on events and human beings. Science Fact and Science Fiction examines in one volume how science has propelled science-fiction and, to a lesser extent, how science fiction has influenced the sciences. Although coverage will discuss the science behind the fiction from the Classical Age to the present, focus is naturally on the 19th century to the present, when the Industrial Revolution and spectacular progress in science and technology triggered an influx of science-fiction works speculating on the future. As scientific developments alter expectations for the future, the literature absorbs, uses, and adapts such contextual visions. The goal of the Encyclopedia is not to present a catalog of sciences and their application in literary fiction, but rather to study the ongoing flow and counterflow of influences, including how fictional representations of science affect how we view its practice and disciplines. Although the main focus is on literature, other forms of science fiction, including film and video games, are explored and, because science is an international matter, works from non-English speaking countries are discussed as needed.
Author: Rudy Rucker Publisher: Running Press Adult ISBN: 0762441399 Category : Philosophy Languages : en Pages : 306
Book Description
The essays and memoirs collected in Seek! trace Rudy Rucker's trajectory through the final decade of the second millennium. His topics include artificial life, chaos, the big bang, Pieter Brueghel, the church of the subgenius, live sex, mathematics, science fiction, and TV evangelism. A computer scientist and programmer, Rucker is an articulate, engaging guide to the world on either side of the computer screen.
Author: Liz Siva Publisher: Ruder Finn Press ISBN: 9781932646207 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 220
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In her first novel, Liz Siva takes the reader on an engaging, sometimes exciting, sometimes sentimental journey from despair to hope to ultimate success through her central character, Benjamin Jones, a struggling African-American child in Harlem.
Author: Jac Arbour Publisher: ISBN: 9780989892704 Category : Conduct of life Languages : en Pages : 0
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The personal development and self-improvement field is a virtual ocean brimming with great ideas and sound advice, but who has the time to wade through it all? With the desire to share his findings, author Jac Arbour explored and distilled this extensive body of information-- he has filtered it through his own experiences with success and those of highly successful people to extract the most potent drops. May You Drink from the Saucer presents the most impactful concepts and habits that have delivered results for successful people, throughout history and across pursuits. At age twenty-one, Jac Arbour met a worldclass entrepreneur who forever changed his way of thinking. After numerous conversations that touched on just about everything--family, achievement, happiness, success, significance, and more--Arbour's new confidant gave him a life-changing instruction: seek out people who can serve as mentors. "If you do this in your life," he promised, "your cup will overflow." Arbour began to channel his natural zeal for learning toward finding more golden drops in the vast ocean of ideas and strategies. He devoured insightful books and, following his first mentor's advice, Arbour surrounded himself with people more knowledgeable than himself in many important arenas: relationship building, philanthropic giving, wealth creation, life philosophy, business strategy, and networking and interpersonal connections. The pieces of wisdom he acquired are nothing less than timeless truths--ever-workable principles of success that have already led millions of people to lives of meaning and fulfillment. May You Drink from the Saucer is your starting point for a life overflowing with learning, growth, and fulfilled dreams! These timeless truths and practical ways to apply them will serve you right away and for the rest of your life.
Author: Damien Broderick Publisher: Wildside Press LLC ISBN: 1434457230 Category : Literary Criticism Languages : en Pages : 238
Book Description
Novelist and scholar Damien Broderick offers an exhilarating report on the state of science fiction at the start of the millennium. In the 21st century, we see a new wave rising in SF: it's complex, transreal, slipstreamy, post-postmodern. It unleashes the strange!
Author: Douglas Lain Publisher: Start Publishing LLC ISBN: 159780584X Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 221
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The bastard-offspring of They Live and The Day the Earth Stood Still, as told by Jean Paul Sartre. Shape-changing aliens may have landed on the Whitehouse lawn and subsequently integrated into human society, but humanity is still full of self-centered and self-absorbed individuals. Laura’s just scraping by on her art teacher’s salary. Donald, a bestselling author and UFOlogist who provided counseling to abductees, has tried to distance himself from the saucer landings and is looking to move on with his life. But everything changes when Shelly, an alien enrolled in Laura’s art class, mysteriously switches places with Laura. Life begins to unravel. Laura then realizes this isn’t the first time Shelly has moved into another person’s body, and fragments of other people’s memories have jumped with her, including those of Donald’s wife. Laura begins to grasp that reality, or at least humanity’s perception of it, may be more flexible than anyone wants to admit. And though she can’t explain how or why, she suspects the aliens are behind it and will need Donald’s help to stop them. In an egocentric society that sleepwalks through the rituals of daily life, would people even notice if the world around them suddenly and inexplicably changes? Part Jonathan Lethem (Amnesia Moon) and part Kurt Vonnegut (Slaughterhouse Five), Douglas Lain’s latest novel uses science fiction’s alien invasion rubric to examine and undermine the world we take for granted. This deeply unsettling satire places him alongside contemporaries like Jeff VanderMeer and Charles Yu as one of his generation’s most exciting and challenging speculative fiction voices.
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