All the Visions is a short autobiographical novel that Rucker wrote In 1983. Wanting to emulate Jack Kerouac's composition of "On the Road," he typed "All the Visions" on an 80-foot scroll of paper instead of using separate sheets. The book describes the adventures of Conrad Bunger: mathematician, writer, seeker, rebel, freak. Rudy Rucker is a writer, a mathematician, and a former computer science prof. He received Philip K. Dick awards for his cyberpunk novels "Software" and "Wetware," and an Emperor Norton award for his autobiography, "Nested Scrolls."