Seek! : Selected Non-Fiction

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.

The author of 13 works of fiction and four nonfiction books, Rudy Rucker is a professor of computer science at San Jose State University. He lives in the Silicon Valley.

INTRODUCTION

Seek What?

1

(7)

37 Questions

8

(25)

PART I: SCIENCE

Welcome to Silicon Valley

33

(7)

A Brief History of Computers

40

(24)

Cellular Automata

64

(21)

Four Kinds of Cyberspace

85

(10)

Life and Artificial Life

95

(24)

Hacking Code

119

(3)

A New Golden Age of Calculation

122

(9)

Mr. Nanotechnology

131

(4)

Fab! Inside Chip Fabrication Plants

135

(9)

Goodbye Big Bang

144

(8)

Tech Notes Towards a Cyberpunk Novel

152

(7)

PART II: LIFE

Drugs and Live Sex

159

(8)

Jerry's Neighbors

167

(8)

The Central Teachings of Mysticism

175

(5)

Rudy Rucker

vi

Haunted

180

(8)

Phil Dick

California New Edge

188

(14)

Vision in Yosemite

202

(6)

Cyberculture in Japan

208

(30)

The Manual of Evasion

238

(16)

Memories of Arf

254

(11)

Island Notes

265

(9)

In Search of Bruegel

274

(27)

PART III: ART

A Transrealist Manifesto

301

(3)

What SF Writers Want

304

(11)

What Is Cyberpunk?

315

(8)

Cyberpunk Lives!

323

(14)

Interview with Ivan Stang

337

(5)

Special Effects: Kit-Bashing the Cosmic Matte

342

(8)

Art in Amsterdam

350

(4)

Pieter Bruegel's Peasant Dance

354

(9)

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

Dates of Composition

361

(2)

Bibliography

363

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Seek! : Selected Non-Fiction

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