New York: Four Walls Eight Windows, (1999) dj. Hardcover first edition - A collection of short nonfiction by this professor of computer science and science fiction writer which is "just as clear and sassy as his novels. Whether he's having visions in Yosemite with his son, flipping the bird at Jerry Falwell's second in command, or playing with his favorite artificial life forms, Rucker seems to know he'll be telling us about it later.. . [this] reads like a user's guide to the New Renaissance: after reading "A Brief History of Computers," we can move on to "Cyberculture in Japan," visit Industrial Light and Magic, and examine Brueghel's Peasant Dance in depth.". ISBN: -568581335.