Geoffrey Holder
Trinidadian-American actor and dancer (1930-2014)
American mathematician, computer scientist, science fiction author and philosopher
Rudolf von Bitter Ruckeris an American mathematician, computer scientist, science fiction author, and one of the founders of the cyberpunk literary movement. The author of both fiction and non-fiction, he is best known for the novels in the Ware Tetralogy, the first two of whichboth won Philip K. Dick Awards.
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Rudolf von Bitter Ruckeris an American mathematician, computer scientist, science fiction author, and one of the founders of the cyberpunk literary movement. The author of both fiction and non-fiction, he is best known for the novels in the Ware Tetralogy, the first two of whichboth won Philip K. Dick Awards. He edited the science fiction webzine Flurb until its closure in 2014.
Some ideas you have to chew on, then roll them around a lot, play with them before you can turn them into funky science fiction.
American mathematician, computer scientist, science fiction author and philosopher
Lately I’ve been working to convince myself that everything is a computation.
American mathematician, computer scientist, science fiction author and philosopher
Selling a book or story has never become absolutely automatic for me.
American mathematician, computer scientist, science fiction author and philosopher
Science fiction writers put characters into a world with arbitrary rules and work out what happens.
American mathematician, computer scientist, science fiction author and philosopher
But how does it feel to plug into a system that’s say, a million times as smart as a person.
American mathematician, computer scientist, science fiction author and philosopher
Now, being a science fiction writer, when I see a natural principle, I wonder if it could fail.
American mathematician, computer scientist, science fiction author and philosopher
If all else fails, there’s always print or web zines.
American mathematician, computer scientist, science fiction author and philosopher
I think dry nanotechnology is probably a dead-end.
American mathematician, computer scientist, science fiction author and philosopher
I like to do things that are surprising and different.
American mathematician, computer scientist, science fiction author and philosopher
Traditional science is all about finding shortcuts.
American mathematician, computer scientist, science fiction author and philosopher
The hard fact is that not everyone does get published.
American mathematician, computer scientist, science fiction author and philosopher
In any case, A New Kind of Science is a wonderful book, and I’m still absorbing its teachings.
American mathematician, computer scientist, science fiction author and philosopher
At present, however, I don’t think the Net is a very good medium for books, books should really be inexpensive lightweight paperbacks you can bang around.
American mathematician, computer scientist, science fiction author and philosopher
I like a book better if I can’t predict what’s going to happen.
American mathematician, computer scientist, science fiction author and philosopher
Electronic distribution is more of a fall-back strategy for putting out a book that isn’t deemed profitable enough to print. You hardly make any money publishing an electronic book.
American mathematician, computer scientist, science fiction author and philosopher
It’s soothing to realize that my mind’s processes are inherently uncontrollable.
American mathematician, computer scientist, science fiction author and philosopher
One of the nice things about science fiction is that it lets us carry out thought experiments.
American mathematician, computer scientist, science fiction author and philosopher
All living things are gnarly, in that they inevitably do things that are much more complex than one might have expected.
American mathematician, computer scientist, science fiction author and philosopher
Advice to beginning SF writers? Write a lot, finish what you write, and when it’s done, keep sending it out for quite awhile.
American mathematician, computer scientist, science fiction author and philosopher
If we suppose that many natural phenomena are in effect computations, the study of computer science can tell us about the kinds of natural phenomena that can occur.
American mathematician, computer scientist, science fiction author and philosopher
If you think of your life as a kind of computation, it’s quite abundantly clear that there’s not going to be a final answer and there won’t be anything particularly wonderful about having the computation halt!
American mathematician, computer scientist, science fiction author and philosopher
Unfortunately our nation, nay, our world, is run by evil morons.
American mathematician, computer scientist, science fiction author and philosopher
It’s tedious to watch something very obvious being worked out, like a movie that’s not particularly good and after about half an hour you know how it’s going to end.
American mathematician, computer scientist, science fiction author and philosopher
Computations are everywhere, once you begin to look at things in a certain way.
American mathematician, computer scientist, science fiction author and philosopher
A computation is a process that obeys finitely describable rules.
American mathematician, computer scientist, science fiction author and philosopher