Rudy Rucker

• Oct-1981
• / Science Fiction
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And now, with SPACETIME DONUTS, Rudy Rucker pushes the barriers of speculative fiction even further back! SPACETIME DONUTS-- the wild and contemporary tale of a future in which staying stoned, sex-starved and stupid is the approved way of life, and t...

• Nov-1982
• / Fantasy
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• 1983
• / Science Fiction
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It was Cobb Anderson who built the "boppers"--the first robots with real brains. Now, in 2020, Cobb is just another aged "pheezer" with a bad heart, drinking and grooving an the old tunes in Florida retirement hell. His "bops" have came a long way, t...

• Oct-1983
• / Science Fiction
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A-bomb + a slacker prof + a sexy hypersphere = cyberpunk extravaganza in this outrageous, comic, and oddly erotic tale of true love and nuclear terrorism from Rudy Rucker.   When Alwin, a disaffected young physicist, takes a vacation in F...

• Sep-1984
• / General Fiction
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• Dec-1984
• / Science Fiction
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The real world is unbearable to madcap inventor Harry Gerber, so he uses his genius to twist the laws of science and create his own tailor-made universe. Master of Space and Time combines high physics and high jinks, blurring the line between science...

• 1985
• / Science Fiction
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A 60s love story. But, wait, is our hero a saucer alien? A coming-of-age science fiction novel, blending realism and the fantastic in a transreal style. This is the 2016 edition, with a new note by the author....

• 1987
• / Science Fiction
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• 1989
• / Science Fiction
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When bopper robots discover a way to infuse DNA wetware with their own software code, a new lifeform results, ensnaring Della Taze and bringing pheezer Cobb Anderson out of cold-storage heaven. Reissue....

• 1990
• / Horror
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Interweaving history with science fiction, this adventure--set in the pre-Civil War South--features Edgar Allan Poe and two cohorts exploring the exotic lands of Earth's core and discovering a parallel universe...

• Jan-1991
• / Science Fiction
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• Aug-1991
• / Science Fiction
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• Apr-1994
• / General Fiction
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Two complete novels--Software, in which robots offer elderly hippie Cobb Anderson immortality, and Wetware, in which the meatbop, a new life form emerges--enter the world of cyberpunk. Reprint....

• May-1994
• / Fantasy
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This cyberpunk adventure from Philip K. Dick award-winner, Rudy Rucker, reads like a ripped-from-Reddit romp of white hat hacking, artificial intelligence. run amok, and an unstoppable electronic 'bugs.'From a two-time winner of the Philip K. Dick aw...

• May-1997
• / Science Fiction
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Now, in 2953, "moldies" are the latest robotic advancement--evolved artificial lifeforms made of soft plastic and gene' tweaked molds and algae, so anatomically inventive and universally despised that their very presence on the planet 10, has thrown ...

• Sep-1997
• / Fantasy
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Author Rudy Rucker offers a unique vision of life, death, and the infinite worlds that lie beyond in this thought-provoking, inspiring, romantic—and funny as hell—mathematical SF novel. Young prof Felix Rayman spends his days in an...

• May-1999
• / Science Fiction
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The essays and memoirs collected in Seek! trace Rudy Rucker's trajectory through the final decade of the second millennium. His topics include artificial life, chaos, the big bang, Pieter Brueghel, the church of the subgenius, live sex, mathematics, ...

• May-1999
• / Suspense
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The essays and memoirs collected in Seek! trace Rudy Rucker's trajectory through the final decade of the second millennium. His topics include artificial life, chaos, the big bang, Pieter Brueghel, the church of the subgenius, live sex, mathematics, ...

• Jul-1999
• / General Fiction
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• Apr-2000
• / Science Fiction
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Though he is also a mathematician, computer scientist, and essayist, Rudy Rucker is best known for his ground-breaking science fiction. The companion volume to Seek!, Rucker's selected nonfiction, Gnarl! brings together three dozen of the writer's be...

• May-2000
• / Science Fiction
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In 2054, Phil Gottner finds himself in over his head as he deals with a drug-addicted girlfriend, a father who has been swallowed by a hyperspatial anomaly, a new love interest with a visitor from the Moon, and a mysterious alien species and their go...

• Jun-2002
• / Science Fiction
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Joe Cube is a Silicon Valley hotshot--well, a would-be hotshot anyway--hoping that the 3-D TV project he's managing will lead to the big money IPO he's always dreamed of. On New Year's Eve, hoping to impress his wife, he sneaks home the prototype. It...

• Nov-2002
• / General Fiction
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Peter Bruegel's paintings---a peasant wedding in a barn, hunters in the snow, a rollicking street festival, and many others---have long defined our idea of everyday life in sixteenth century Europe. They are classic icons of a time and place in much ...

• Jan-2003
• / Science Fiction
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From a two-time winner of the Philip K. Dick award, and one of the founding fathers of cyberpunk comes a novel about a very modern nightmare: the most destructive computer virus ever has been traced to your machine. Computer programmer Jerzy Rugby sp...

• 2003
• / Science Fiction
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Imagine a future without cyberspace... without the Web or virtual reality.... What would happen in an alternate Information Age? What would you do? What would you fear? What wouldn't you know? You can't imagine. Today's top masters of specula...

• Mar-2004
• / Action Adventure
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In the year 3003, nothing in the world is the same, except maybe that adolescents are still embarrassed by their parents. Society and the biosphere alike have been transformed by biotechnology, and the natural world is almost gone.Frek Huggins is a b...

• Dec-2006
• / Science Fiction
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Reality is never more unpredictable than when two mathematicians are in love with the same girl, and can change the world to get her.Bela and Paul, two wild young mathematicians, are friends and roommates, and both are in love with Alma, Bela�,��"�s ...

• Jan-2007
• / Science Fiction
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At the untamed frontiers of intelligence, consciousness, matter, and reality lies Rudy Rucker's The Mad Professor, a collection of twelve mind-bending science fiction stories that probe the outer limits of possibility. Rucker, an accomplished compute...

• Oct-2007
• / Science Fiction / Fantasy
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It all begins next year in California. A maladjusted computer industry billionaire and a somewhat crazy US President initiate a radical transformation of the world through sentient nanotechnology; sort of the equivalent of biological artificial intel...

• Jun-2009
• / Science Fiction
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After the Singularity, everyone and everything is sentient and telepathic. Aliens notice and invade Earth. In Rucker's last novel, Postsingular, the Singularity happened and life on Earth was transformed by the awakening of all matter into consciousn...

• Mar-2010
• / Science Fiction
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• An omnibus of Rudy Rucker''s groundbreaking series [Software,Wetware, Freeware, and Realware], with an introduction byWilliam Gibson, author of Neuromancer.

• Jul-2010
• / Science Fiction
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Like many other stories and novels by Rudy Rucker, "Jack and the Aktuals" is a wild and wooly dramatization of certain principles of higher mathematics, with added talking animals, sentient pencils, and orders-of-infinity nested within one another li...

• Jun-2011
• / Science Fiction
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Jim and the Flims is a novel set in Santa Cruz, CA... and the afterlife. Acclaimed cyberpunk/singularity author Rudy Rucker explores themes of death and destruction, in the wry, quirky style he is famous for. Jim Oster ruptures the membrane between o...

• Dec-2011
• / Science Fiction
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Nested Scrolls reveals the true life adventures of Rudolf von Bitter "Rudy" Rucker -- mathematician, transrealist author, punk rocker, and computer hacker. It begins with a young boy growing up in Louisville, Kentucky, the son of a businessman father...

• Jan-2012
• / Science Fiction
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The original “Mad Professor” of cyberpunk, Rudy Rucker (along with fellow outlaws William Gibson and Bruce Sterling) transformed modern science fiction, tethering the “gnarly” speculations of quantum physics to the noir sensibilities of a ske...

• Apr-2012
• / General Fiction
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A lifetime of thought. Collected Essays includes sixty essays and a hundred illustrations. Manifestos and talks about writing science-fiction. Cool scenes seem riding the Silicon Valley computer wave for twenty years. Obsessively beautiful graphics&m...

• Apr-2012
• / Steampunk
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• Jun-2012
• / Science Fiction
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All of Rudy Rucker's science-fiction stories, a trove of gnarl and wonder in two volumes. Volume One includes stories from 1976 through 2001, ranging from the cyberpunk to the transreal. As well as Rucker's solo stories, we have collaborations with B...

• Jun-2012
• / Science Fiction
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Rucker's two-volume "Complete Stories" contains all of his science-fiction stories--a trove of gnarl and wonder. This new, 2019 edition of Volume Two includes stories from 2001 through 2019, with over twenty-five tales not in any previous anthology...

• Oct-2012
• / Science Fiction
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What if Alan Turing, founder of the modern computer age, escaped assassination by the secret service to become the lover of Beat author William Burroughs? What if they mutated into giant shapeshifting slugs, fled the FBI, raised Burroughs’s wife fr...

• Jan-2014
• / Science Fiction
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Biotech has replaced machines. Qrude young artist Zad Plant works with living paint. But Zad’s career is on the skids and wife Jane has thrown him out. Enter qwet -- or quantum wetware. Qwet makes you high -- and it gives you telepathy. A new psych...

• Nov-2014
• / Science Fiction
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It's the only alternate universe. Just the one.Thanks to "bluegene", life is long. But out Route 42 near Goshen, it's also kind of dull. Just the thing to encourage an expedition into the only actual other universe, the place where…but that would b...

• Apr-2015
• / General Fiction
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Ride the wave with Rudy Rucker---author, programmer, mathematician, professor, cyberpunk, hipster, transrealist, and family man. A writer's journey. Rucker composed "Journals: 1990-2014" over twenty-five years. A long-running adventure. Entries inclu...

• Sep-2015
• / General Fiction
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Notice: This Book is published by Historical Books Limited (www.publicdomain.org.uk) as a Public Domain Book, if you have any inquiries, requests or need any help you can just send an email to publications@publicdomain.org.uk This book is found as a ...

• Jul-2018
• / Steampunk
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"The Hollow Earth" is a classic work of American steampunk. In 1836, our seventeen-year-old narrator Mason Reynolds leaves his father's Virginia farm with the black Otha. He befriends the dissolute Edgar Allan Poe, and they fall through a thousand-mi...

• Jul-2018
• / Steampunk
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"The Hollow Earth" is a classic work of American steampunk. In 1836, our seventeen-year-old narrator Mason Reynolds leaves his father's Virginia farm with the black Otha. He befriends the dissolute Edgar Allan Poe, and they fall through a thousand-mi...

• Jul-2018
• / Steampunk
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Rudy Rucker's book length black-and-white illustrated writing notes for his novel "Return to the Hollow Earth." A fun, giddy insight into the mind of an author. And a a practical introduction into the process of writing a novel. Illustrated with 50 d...

• Aug-2018
• / Steampunk
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"Return to the Hollow Earth" is Rucker’s second steampunk novel featuring Mason Reynolds. In 1850, Mason and his wife Seela embark upon a perilous trip around Cape Horn to San Francisco. Their ship sinks, but they're saved by a tentacled, flying na...

• Sep-2018
• / Science Fiction
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The lives of scientist Alan Turing and author William Burroughs are turned upside down in this off-the-wall sci-fi caper from Rudy Rucker. What if Alan Turing, founder of the modern computer age, faked his suicide to escape assassination by the s...

• May-2019
• / Science Fiction
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One of the Barnes & Noble Sci-Fi & Fantasy Blog's Best of May 2019!One of The Verge’s 10 New Science Fiction and Fantasy Books to Check Out in May!In his first new novel since 2013, cyberpunk pioneer Rudy Rucker offers his own smart, ...

• Sep-2021
• / Science Fiction
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Juicy Ghosts is a fast-paced adventure novel, with startling science, engaging dialog-and a happy ending. The novel treats near-future versions of telepathy and immortality. It's also a redemptive political tale, reacting to the chaos or a contested&...

• May-2023
• / Dark Fantasy
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