I´ve got yesterday on my e-mail box the Tor.com newsletter announcing a new free story on its site: Jack and the Aktuals, or, Physical Applications of Transfinite Set Theory, by Rudy Rucker.
I´ve always liked Rucker, as much for his writings (I´m also a sucker for his non-fiction work, which is great) as for his sense of humor. The thing is, I had no idea he is, as Tor.com says, "the great-great-great grandson of the philosopher Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel". This came as a total surprise for me, and a good one, since Hegel is one of my favorite philosophers. An apple never falls far from the tree, after all.
Oh, and the story is very good too. :-)
illustration by Fabio Cobiaco
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