Mad Professor

Written in 1980, White Light is one of my favorite novels by one of my favorite authors, Rudy Rucker. The story concerns a severely disenchanted math professor name Felix Rayman who hates his job at a University in upstate New York. One day, while either lucid dreaming or astral projecting, Rayman finds himself in a world of more than four dimensions, populated by strange Alice-In-Wonderland creatures. One of them, a giant beetle named Franx, becomes Rayman's companion as he makes his way through across a mathematically-themed world, attempting to reach across infinity to meet God.

Rucker is the founder of a science fiction genre he called Transrealism, which can be summed up as "write like yourself, only more so." Here's Rucker's "A Transrealist Manifesto" from 1983. In it, he wrote, "The Transrealist writes about immediate perceptions in a fantastic way." I think it's a great way to write fiction. $11.16 on Amazon