Note: The following is an opinion, not fact. It is anti-Rudy, and is based on one (half) reading of his books.
Rudy, well, as far as i can tell, can't write. There was little symbolism or basically anything of real substance in his book "software", most of which consisted of sex between humans and squishies, an act that the reader doesn't need to hear about twice, let alone 30 times. See Stephenson for cyberpunkfun, and William Gibson for symbolism and all that deep stuff.