Luke Rhinehart is the acclaimed author of eight works of fiction:
The Dice Man, Whim, White Wind, Black Rider (formerly Matari), Search for the Dice Man, Long Voyage Back, The Book of the Die, Naked Before the World: A Lovely Pornographic Love Story, and the just published Jesus Invades George: An Alternative History. He is also the author of The Book of est.

Luke has written ten screenplays, most based on his own novels.

Luke’s books explore self and illusion, and freedom and chance. He has dealt particularly with the ways in which modern western societies limit the spontaneity and creativity of most humans. He sees reason and seriousness as a form of mental illness, a madness that seems to be sweeping humankind towards a civilizational and ecological disaster. And makes it all seem funny as hell.

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Why Karl believed that his Policy of Eternal War would mean Republican governments 'til death do us part.

How George, in Sadr City, with only a single body guard, survived many assassination attempts, only to be nearly done in by a pizza.

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“Luke Rhinehart and THE DICE MAN have launched a psychiatric revolution.” —London Sunday Telegraph.  London's Time Out called THE DICE MAN “The most fashionable novel of the early 1970s”, and in 1995 a BBC production named it “One of the fifty most influential books of the last half of the twentieth century.”

Interest in Luke’s most famous book, The Dice Man, written more than thirty years ago, has undergone a miraculous rebirth in the last several years and is now at an all-time high. The book has been published or republished in nineteen countries and is now selling more copies throughout the world than at any time before. A new American edition of THE DICE MAN was published in June of 2006.

In addition, during this period numerous media projects have focused attention on Luke and The Dice Man. In 1998 Paul Wilmshurst and Big Table Films made DICEWORLD, a major one-hour documentary about Luke, The Dice Man, and people influenced by the book. At the beginning of this century Russell Harris inspired by The Dice Man, created the Diceman Travel Show, which for several years appeared on the Travel and Discovery Channels.

In 2001 and 2002 Dice, a six-part dicing TV series for Canadian and U.K. television aired in Canada and several European countries. In 2004 the play The Dice House inspired by Luke’s novel The Dice Man and written by the brilliant young playwright Paul Lucas, had an eight-week run in London’s West End. Stage adaptations of The Dice Man itself are currently being developed in France and in Spain.

The renewed success of The Dice Man has led to Luke’s republishing his novel Matari as White Wind, Black Rider, and revising and publishing Adventures of Wim as Whim.

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Some Square Comments on Living by the Cube

The idea of a life lived to the whim of the dice is an attractive, potentially seminal notion.

— TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT

The creator of diceliving has launched a psychiatric revolution.

— LONDON SUNDAY TELEGRAPH

Inevitably Chance becomes a god and dice a religion. (Diceliving is) an unpleasant notion whose time has come.

— CHRISTIAN SCIENCE MONITOR

Diceliving is an extreme kind of creative play.

— VIRGINIAN PILOT

Dicepeople get from (dicing) a tolerably sharp sense of risk, impermanence and variety.

— NEW YORK TIMES

It is all part of a conjoint project that a number of us are engaged in to render the whole fabric of bourgeois society unworkable . . . in a total and totalizing revolutionary process."

— DAVID COOPER

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