# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/rudy-rucker
# Generated: 2026-08-31T13:50:26.948Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/rudy-rucker"
name: "Rudy Rucker"
slug: "rudy-rucker"
description: "Rudolf von Bitter Rucker is an American mathematician, computer scientist, science fiction author, and one of the founders of the cyberpunk literary movement. The author of both fiction and non-fiction, he is best known for the novels in the Ware Tetralogy, the first two of which both won Philip K. Dick Awards. He edited the science fiction webzine Flurb until its closure in 2014."
tagline: "American mathematician, computer scientist, science fiction author and philosopher (born 1946)"
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country:
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birthDate: "1946-03-22"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
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  country:  null
  category: null
totalFollowers: 79
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump