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Rudy Rucker


(Rudolf von Bitter Rucker)
USA flag (b.1946)

Rudy Rucker is a world-class mathematician and two-time winner of the Philip K. Dick Award. He is the author of the cyberpunk classics Software, Wetware and Freeware, as well as numerous other novels, including The Hollow Earth and The Hacker and the Ants. in addition to writing sf and popular mathematics books, he teaches computer science at San Jose State University in California and has co-authored a number of software programs, including an adaptation of James Gleick's Chaos and, more recently, a freeware flicker-cladding simulator known as CAPOW! He lives in Los Gatos, California.
 

Genres: Science Fiction
 
Series
Ware
   1. Software (1982)
   2. Wetware (1988)
   3. Freeware (1997)
   4. Realware (2000)
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Postsingular
   1. Postsingular (2007)
   2. Hylozoic (2009)
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Novels
   White Light (1980)
   Spacetime Donuts (1981)
   The Sex Sphere (1983)
   Master of Space and Time (1984)
   The Secret of Life (1985)
   All the Visions (1993)
   The Hacker and the Ants (1994)
   Saucer Wisdom (1999)
   Spaceland (2002)
   As Above, So Below (2002)
   Frek and the Elixir (2004)
   Mathematicians in Love (2006)
   Jim and the Flims (2011)
   Turing & Burroughs (2012)
   The Big AHA (2013)
   Million Mile Road Trip (2019)
   Notes for Juicy Ghosts (2021)
   Juicy Ghosts (2021)
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Collections
   The 57th Franz Kafka (1982)
   Transreal! (1991)
   Gnarl (2000)
   The Mad Professor (2006)
   Complete Stories (2012)
   Transreal Cyberpunk (2015) (with Bruce Sterling)
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Novellas and Short Stories
   Jack and the Aktuals (2010)
   Good Night, Moon (2011) (with Bruce Sterling)
   Loco (2012) (with Bruce Sterling)
   Where the Lost Things Are (2014) (with Terry Bisson)
   Totem Poles (2016) (with Bruce Sterling)
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Anthologies edited
   Mathenauts (1987)
   Semiotext(e) SF (1989) (with Peter Lamborn Wilson and Robert Anton Wilson)
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Series contributed to
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Rudy Rucker recommends
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The Summer Thieves (2021)
(Quinary, book 1)
Paul Di Filippo
"Paul Di Filippo’s The Summer Thieves is a pure delight, a peak in his epic career. . . .The language is at the level of Pynchon or Nabokov, with frequent sentences taking on the clarity and balance of a koan. The reading flows with ‘an almost boneless, sinuous grace of movement.’ And our man’s erudition yields passages with the pleasing intricacy of encrusted Fabergé eggs. . . . Paul knows everything. One might well worship him as a god, were it not that 'the Fifth Postulate of Wetnoodle mandates otherwise.' Read The Summer Thieves."
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Robot Artists and Black Swans (2021)
Bruce Sterling
"Sterling emerges as an Italian cultural figure, within hailing distance of Italo Calvino and Federico Fellini."
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Strange Labour (2020)
Robert G Penner
"Robert Penner's Strange Labour is a road novel of crystalline exuberance--populated by mindless diggers, resourceful scrabblers, evil drifters, and the heroic Miranda. In the majority are the diggers, eternally bulldozing vast earth-works: cryptic nests of grooves that fill valleys with fluid patterns. Might the diggers be an objective correlative for today's info-tech workers? Individualists tend small farms or scavenge the deserted towns. Mad-Max-style bikers roam the landscape with dog-skulls on their handlebars. Resourceful Miranda has our sympathy throughout. Penner adorns his narrative with poetic evocations of this fallen world. Strange Labour is a book to savour and to love."

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Anthologies containing stories by Rudy Rucker
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Hieroglyph (2014)
Stories and Blueprints for a Better Future
edited by
Kathryn Cramer and Ed Finn
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Wastelands 2 (2013)
More Stories of the Apocalypse
(Wastelands, book 2)
edited by
John Joseph Adams
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Cyberpunk (2012)
Stories of Hardware, Software, Wetware, Revolution, and Evolution
edited by
Victoria Blake

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Awards
Philip K Dick Award Best Book winner (1982) : Software
Philip K Dick Award Best Book winner (1988) : Wetware


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