Style1½ inches thick (3.75 cm) Product Details Artist grade canvas, archival inks, wooden stretcher bars, and UVB protective coating
AvailablityUsually ships within five business days. ArtistRudy Rucker CollectionPaintings
Description Acrylic on paper, 17' x 13', April, 2008.
In April of 2008, I arranged for a small press to reprint two of my early science fiction novels, Spacetime Donuts and The Sex Sphere. As part of the deal, they agreed to let me design the covers.
Spacetime Donuts is about a somewhat punk-like young mathematician who finds a way to shrink down so small that he wraps around the scale axis and gets big. Scale turns out to be circular, and spacetime is in some sense like a donut. I wrote this novel in 1979, and it can be argued that this was one of the very first cyberpunk science-fiction novels. The characters in the book plug their brains into computers, which is why I have that wire coming out of his neck.
Hes wearing an earring thats a variation on the W.A.S.T.E. symbol in Thomas Pynchons novel The Crying of Lot 49. As it turns out, the books plot resembles this symbol.
I had fun making this image really pop with cadmium red and cadmium yellow.
Rudy Rucker, Los Gatos, California Member Since February 2007 Artist Statement Rudy Rucker is a well-known science-fiction novelist who enjoys painting surreal scenes that are often related to incidents in his books. He paints a lot, and he doesn't always fill in the details of his works when he postss on the Imagekind site, but you can learn all these details on his Paintings page --- www.rudyrucker.com/paintings --- which includes larger images, a catalog with notes on the paintings, and a price list for the original canvases. Further information about Rudy’s activities can be found on his photo-illustrated Blog --- www.rudyrucker.com/blog