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  • ISBN: 1888869178
  • Category: Fiction
  • Author: Rudy Rucker
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  • Language: English
  • Publisher: Hardwired; Reprint edition (September 1, 1997)
  • Pages: 269 pages
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  • Rating: 4.4
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White Light is a work of science fiction by Rudy Rucker published in 1980 by Virgin Books in the UK and Ace books in the US. It was written while Rucker was teaching mathematics at the University of Heidelberg from 1978 to 1980, at roughly the same . . It was written while Rucker was teaching mathematics at the University of Heidelberg from 1978 to 1980, at roughly the same time he was working on the non-fiction book Infinity and the Mind

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Felix Rayman, a frustrated university mathematician, finds the adventure he has been wishing for when he falls into a multidimensional universe
Reviews about White Light (Cortext : Science Fiction That Changed the World) (7):
Doriel
Recommended to me by a friend, to try to help me expand my literary horizons past non-fiction educational books. I'm glad I read it. Not exciting in the same way a Lord of the Rings adventure may, but much more interesting.
Berkohi
Mindblowing.
Tiainar
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Felix Raynor is a new assistant math professor at SUCAS Bernco, a cow
college in upstate New York -- but wait, Rudy Rucker was an asst prof at
SUCAS (really) Geneseo in upstate NY, 1972-78... Raynor is struggling
to adapt to rural academe while (occasionally) working on Georg
Cantor's Continuum Problem -- as was Rucker in RL: he started
writing WL when he got bogged down with Cantor. Raynor's & Rucker's
lives diverge ( I presume) when Raynor discovers astral projection and
checks into Hilbert's Hotel on the flipside of Cimon, after getting a
personal command from Jesus Christ to climb Mt. On...

As Rucker notes in his afterword, "White Light" has "nice
visualizations of infinity, fine evocations of the time when it was
written, heartfelt attempts to break thru to ultimate truth, good surreal
imagery, and lots of laughs." It's been on my "to read" list for years, and
I'm pleased to see it back in print.

Is it worth your $13? Ummm. Are you a serious collector/Rucker fan?
It's certainly worth picking up at the library. If you happen to be new to
Rucker (SF's own mad mathemagician) I'd start with "Master of Space
& Time" (1985 pb, OOP but easily found), still my favorite Rucker novel,
in which the tale of three wishes granted is explored via quantum
mechanics, with wonderfully bizarre results. The apotheosis of Harry
Gerber... I've read MST at least three times, & laughed aloud each time.
This is the book "White Light" is trying to be.

review copyright 1998 by Peter D. Tillman
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Mushicage
I read somewhere, once, that Rudy Rucker was the original and actual father of cyberpunk, and that White Light was his seminal work. I'm not sure I really buy that, but I can say this - Rudy Rucker is certainly one of the most unique authors of his generation, and White Light is a unique work among unique works. Sort of Alice in Wonderland meets The Phantom Tollbooth, it is the story of a free-spirited mathematics professor who stumbles upon an extra-dimensional, parallel universe - where he embarks upon a journey to attain the ultimate truth; the White Light.

White Light is many things at once - so many things, in fact, that it hovers on the fulcrum between challenging and disturbing, between brilliantly complex and maddeningly random. At the end, I'm not certain whether I've read a work of coherent genius, so much as I am impressed by Rucker's ability to introduce so many surreal concepts, and maintain even the slightest impression of control over the story.

Definitely not a linear work, White Light is more like a vast dreamscape, or intense acid trip, where Rucker casts up a cacophony of bizarre characters, dead geniuses, and new age mysticism oddly blended with abstract mathematical theory. And while it is not a dense literary work, it is also not an easy read - it takes work to get through it. In the end, I found the effort worthwhile - but Rucker is definitely not for everyone. If you're up for a surreal intellectual challenge, though, I'd recommend it strongly.
Tygokasa
It is obvious to me that mankind has a built-in desire to expand - in any and every way. Today, virtual worlds of various scope and quality are common (mostly, as games) and interconnected via the internet. I am coming to believe that the impetus for these creations must lie deep within us - it seems instinctive and critical to us in some way. The dream of the Buddha? Or, some aspect of evolution?
Before the existence of the current virtual worlds came to be so common, William Gibson imagined and coined the term "cyberspace". Gibson and other writers like Bruce Sterling and Neal Stephenson wrote stories of "cyberspace" and its relation to the human spirit and evolution. I think, however, it was probably necessary for computer technology to advance to a certain level before imagining these stories was possible. Or, was there synergy? Did the desire, inspired by cyberpunk authors, to create these worlds further drive the development of computer technology once it had achieved a level that inspired the authors? Ah, now I have a headache.
Well, before the computer technology was such as would inspire the concept of "cyberspace", there was a similar concept out of which the concept of "cyberspace" also likely grew. That concept involved a higher plane of reality that could be experienced by achieving "enlightenment" or having and out-of-body experience, sometimes with the assistance of drugs and/or sensory-deprivation tanks. This is the time and place that (I think) probably inspired the book "White Light" by Rudy Rucker. If you consider it a while, you can also see how these concepts extend in many ways into human history. These all obviously have a relationship to our current concepts regarding virtual worlds and a potential next evolutionary step for mankind - the synthesis of man and a machine of his own creation that will allow him to exist both in this world and worlds of his own creation. Ah, the headache is worse, now.
In "White Light", Rudy Rucker tells the story of an out-of-body experience. Felix Rayman, the main character, is a math professor who is frustrated in many aspects of his life. His job is unfulfilling and his relationship with his wife, the mother of his toddler child, is not good. Somehow, he wills himself out of his body and into a strange realm that he struggles to understand. It is very reminiscent of the land of Oz or the Wonderland experienced by Alice with a lot of abstract mathematics added. The story is filled with discussions of abstract mathematics - infinity, infinities of infinities, the point/place/whatever where infinity and absolute zero come together. This makes the story intellectually and philosophically stimulating. I especially enjoyed the irreverent humor involving well-known figures - mathematicians, philosophers, cartoon characters, and even deities and demons. I enjoyed this work of Rudy Rucker for the same reasons I have enjoyed some of his other works. He takes me places that I have never been - in literary style, imagination, and contemplation of the nature of reality and man's current and future role in it.
If you would like to experience an absolutely lunatic and irreverent comic story that is wonderfully entertaining, intellectually stimulating, and likely a direct ancestor of the cyberpunk genre, Rudy Rucker's "White Light" is it.

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