Rudy Rucker
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. [1] He also said that the album Apostrophe (') was a huge influence on his novel Spacetime Donuts. [2] In general, he credits Zappa's music with giving him a lot of creative inspiration. [3]
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. [4]
In 2007, Rucker reported having seen Dweezil Zappa's Zappa Plays Zappa tour in Berkeley, California. [5]
References
- ↑ https://www.rudyrucker.com/nestedscrolls/sample/nestedscrolls.html
- ↑ https://www.baen.com/Chapters/ERBAEN0047/ERBAEN0047.htm
- ↑ https://medium.com/@rudyrucker/how-to-write-getting-ideas-82c7ee9e551e
- ↑ https://jasobrecht.substack.com/p/the-golden-era-of-guitar-player-magazine
- ↑ https://www.rudyrucker.com/blog/2007/08/21/436/
