Reviews of Books - Rudy Rucker

Reviews of Books by Rudy Rucker
A captivating excursion through the mathematical approaches to the notions of infinity
and the implications of that mathematics for the vexing questions on the mind, existence
and consciousness.
— Mathematics Teacher.
(3) White Light, SF novel, Ace Books 1980, Four Walls Eight Windows
2001.
White Light is a good, intelligent powerful novel, and the most auspicious debut in the SF
field since I don’t know when.
— Thomas M. Disch. in Fantasy & Science Fiction.
In White Light Rucker commandingly synthesizes mysticism, pop imagery, the Devil
Himself, Jesus Christ, the great mathematicians and their ideas, ‘head culture,’ and even
voodoo into a novel that takes us on a wild journey to infinity, to the Absolute, and back
again. As for sheer writing, there’s probably no one like him.
— John Shirley, author of the Eclipse trilogy.
White Light is a marvelously inventive and lunatically logical story, where not only is the
scaling of infinity a mad, convincing adventure, but where ordinary human happiness
matters too movingly.
— Ian Watson in Vector.
(2) Spacetime Donuts, SF novel, Ace Books 1981.
Hip, humorous, and refreshing.
— American Book Review.
It’s all done up in great style and it marks an auspicious debut.
— Roanoke, Virginia, Times & World News.
He knows how to boggle the mind and, next chapter, to boggle it again.
— Thomas M. Disch.
(1) Geometry, Relativity and the Fourth Dimension, nonfiction, Dover
1977.
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