Born in 1946 in Kentucky, Rudy Rucker is a writer, a mathematician, and a former computer science professor. He received Philip K. Dick awards for his cyberpunk novels Software and Wetware, now available in the Ware Tetralogy. He also writes science-fiction in a realistic style that he characterizes as transreal, not to mention the occasional work of historical science fiction. In addition, Rucker has published a number of nonfiction works of popular science, covering topics such as the fourth dimension, infinity, and the meaning of computation. He took up painting in 2000, and has had shows of his pop-surreal works San Francisco. His autobiography, Nested Scrolls, appeared in 2012. For ongoing updates, see his blog at http://www.rudyrucker.com/blog.