Spacetime Donuts (22 page)

Rucker's first publication was a popular-science book,
Geometry, Relativity and the Fourth Dimension
(Dover Publications, 1977). This widely-read book has been translated into Japanese and Portuguese. Rucker's second nonfiction book,
Infinity and the Mind
(Birkhauser Boston Inc., 1982), continues his penchant for working out in detail the ideas on which his novels are based.

Although published second,
Spacetime Donuts
is actually the first novel Rucker wrote. His other two novels are
White Light
(Ace Books, 1980), and
Software
(Ace Books, 1982).
White Light
was published in England by Virgin Books, and is being translated into German.

Rucker is currently busy growing watermelons and working on a major novel to be called
The Sex Sphere
.

Rudy Rucker is a writer who spent twenty years as a computer science professor at San Jose State University in California. Now retired from teaching, he spends his time writing, painting, and maintaining his blog, www.rudyrucker.com/blog.

He's regarded as contemporary master of science-fiction, and received the Philip K. Dick award twice. His thirty published books include both novels and non-fiction books.

Most recently, he wrote a pair of novels about a near-future Earth in which every object becomes conscious. The first,
Postsingular
, appeared from Tor Books in Fall, 2007, and is also available for free download on the web. The second,
Hylozoic
, will appear from Tor in 2009.

His radically hyperdimensional novel,
The Sex Sphere
, is due to appear as an E-Reads book along with
Spacetime Donuts
.

He's still married with three children, and with four grandchildren as well. This year he's growing pumpkins instead of watermelons.