The Fourth Dimension — it's a myth, a reality, a dream, an equation, a hypercube, the face of God, the photograph of everything at once ... and now, The Fourth Dimension is this handy paperback. The result is a fantastic, enlightening, and mind-expanding reading experience. In text, pictures, and puzzles, master science and science fiction writer Rudy Rucker immerses his readers in an amazing exploration of a mysterious realm — a realm once seen only by mystics, physicists, and mathematicians. More accessible than Gödel, Escher, Bach and more playful than The Tao of Physics, Rucker's The Fourth Dimension is the most engaging tour of other dimensions since Flatland. David Povilaitis' 200 drawings illustrate Rucker's heady insights while dozens of puzzles and problems make the book a delight to the eye and mind. As Eileen Pollack has written in her rave review, The Fourth Dimension is "magical ... Its effects persist beyond its covers." That's because, like everything else in the fourth dimension, this is more than a book, it is a mental spaceship capable of grand tours of universes far beyond our own.
Rudy Rucker Volgorde van de boeken
22 maart 1946
Rudolf von Bitter Rucker is een Amerikaanse sciencefictionauteur en een van de grondleggers van het cyberpunkgenre. Zijn werken duiken regelmatig in complexe wetenschappelijke en filosofische ideeën, die hij verweeft met futuristische visioenen. Ruckers kenmerkende stijl combineert technische precisie met wilde verbeelding en verkent de grenzen van het menselijk bestaan en bewustzijn. Zijn bijdragen hebben de moderne sciencefiction aanzienlijk gevormd.







- 1989