WESTERCON 63: CONFIRMATION

CONCHORD 23

Writer Guest of Honor

Rudy Rucker

Rudy Rucker

Rudy Rucker is a writer and a mathematician who worked for twenty years as a Silicon Valley computer science professor.

He is regarded as a contemporary master of science-fiction, and has received the Philip K. Dick award twice.

His thirty published books include both novels and non-fiction books.

His most recent pair of novels depict 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 radical dimensional adventure, "Mathematicians in Love", has just appeared in paperback.

See his website for more info: www.rudyrucker.com