Rudolf von Bitter Rucker was born March 22, 1946 in Louisville KY. He attended Swarthmore, earning a BA in mathematics in 1967, and did graduate work at Rutgers, studying mathematical logic and set theory, and getting a Master’s in 1969 and a PhD in 1973.
Rucker’s novels include Spacetime Donuts (1978); White Light (1980); the Ware series, which includes Philip K. Dick Award winners Software (1982) and Wetware (1988), plus