Rudy Rucker

Rudy Rucker is an American mathematician, computer scientist and science fiction author who helped found the cyberpunk movement. He is best known for the Ware Tetralogy, whose first two books, Software and Wetware, both won Philip K. Dick Awards, and whose third volume, Freeware, imagines a future where humans share the world with intelligent machines. He writes both fiction and non-fiction and edited the science fiction webzine Flurb until it closed in 2014.