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'''Rudy Rucker''' (March 22, 1946) is an American science fiction novelist, best-known for the ''Ware Tetralogy''. He is also active as a mathematician. He is one of the novelists credited as co-founder of the cyberpunk genre.

==Rudy Rucker and Frank Zappa==

Rucker has a scene in his story ''Nested Scrolls'', where a character listens to ''[[The Nancy & Mary Music]]'' on ''[[Chunga's Revenge]]''. <ref>https://www.rudyrucker.com/nestedscrolls/sample/nestedscrolls.html</ref> He also said that the album ''[[Apostrophe]]'' was a huge influence on his novel ''Spacetime Donuts''. <ref>https://www.baen.com/Chapters/ERBAEN0047/ERBAEN0047.htm</ref> In general, he credits Zappa's music with giving him a lot of creative inspiration. <ref>https://medium.com/@rudyrucker/how-to-write-getting-ideas-82c7ee9e551e</ref>

In 2004, Rucker reported on his blog about when he bought Zappa albums in Leuven, [[Belgium]], and performed yoga while listening to ''[[Disco Boy]]''. He also said he read [[Neil Slaven]]'s biography about Zappa ''[[Electric Don Quixote]]''. <ref>https://jasobrecht.substack.com/p/the-golden-era-of-guitar-player-magazine</ref>

In 2007, Rucker reported having seen [[Dweezil Zappa]]'s ''[[Zappa Plays Zappa]]'' tour in Berkeley, California. <ref>https://www.rudyrucker.com/blog/2007/08/21/436/</ref>

==References==
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==External links==
* [[Wikipedia:Rudy Rucker]]

[[Category:Novelists|Rucker, Rudy]]
[[Category:Mathematicians|Rucker, Rudy]]
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 ==Rudy Rucker and Frank Zappa==
-Rucker has a scene in his story ''Nested Scrolls'', where a character listens to ''[[The Nancy & Mary Music]]'' on ''[[Chunga's Revenge]]''. <ref>https://www.rudyrucker.com/nestedscrolls/sample/nestedscrolls.html</ref> He also said that the album ''[[Apostrophe]]'' was a huge influence on his novel ''Spacetime Donuts''. <ref>https://www.baen.com/Chapters/ERBAEN0047/ERBAEN0047.htm</ref> In general, he credits Zappa's music with giving him a lot of creative inspiration. <ref>https://medium.com/@rudyrucker/how-to-write-getting-ideas-82c7ee9e551e</ref>
+Rucker has a scene in his story ''Nested Scrolls'', where a character listens to ''[[The Nancy & Mary Music]]'' on ''[[Chunga's Revenge]]''. <ref>https://www.rudyrucker.com/nestedscrolls/sample/nestedscrolls.html</ref> He also said that the album ''[[Apostrophe (')]]'' was a huge influence on his novel ''Spacetime Donuts''. <ref>https://www.baen.com/Chapters/ERBAEN0047/ERBAEN0047.htm</ref> In general, he credits Zappa's music with giving him a lot of creative inspiration. <ref>https://medium.com/@rudyrucker/how-to-write-getting-ideas-82c7ee9e551e</ref>
 In 2004, Rucker reported on his blog about when he bought Zappa albums in Leuven, [[Belgium]], and performed yoga while listening to ''[[Disco Boy]]''. He also said he read [[Neil Slaven]]'s biography about Zappa ''[[Electric Don Quixote]]''. <ref>https://jasobrecht.substack.com/p/the-golden-era-of-guitar-player-magazine</ref>

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Spider of Destiny: /* Rudy Rucker and Frank Zappa */

Spider of Destiny: Created page with "'''Rudy Rucker''' (March 22, 1946) is an American science fiction novelist, best-known for the ''Ware Tetralogy''. He is also active as a mathematician. He is one of the novel..."