Artificial Life Lab/Book and Disk

by Rudy Rucker

Tinker with the processes governing life and evolution. The Bugland A-Life program for Windows contains animated icons and Sound Blaster-compatible sound. As a silicon geneticist, the user can design creatures and see them give birth, fight, breed and perish through the 3-D glasses provided.

250 pages, Paperback

First published December 1, 1993

About the author

Rudolf von Bitter Rucker is an American mathematician, computer scientist, science fiction author, and one of the founders of the cyberpunk genre. He is best known for his Ware Tetralogy, the first two of which won Philip K. Dick awards. Presently, Rudy Rucker edits the science fiction webzine Flurb.

Reviews

[J · Rating 5 out of 5]

Updated and expanded territory previously addressed in the fairly obscure Autodesk Rudy Rucker Cellular Automata Lab for DOS. Five stars for the 3D glasses that put it firmly in the future as envisioned in the 1950s and ignoring the contemporaneous cyberglove aesthetics for a nostalgic tomorrow even though it was advanced for its actual time. Avantgarde reminiscing today.