Rudy Rucker
(1977, non-fiction... mathematics)
White Light
(1980, novel, science fiction...Ace, New York, US)
Spacetime Donuts
(1981, novel, science fiction...Ace, New York, US... first serialized in Unearth , 1978)
Infinity and the Mind
(1982, non-fiction)
Software
(1982, novel, science fiction...Ace, New York, US... book 1 'Bopper' trilogy)
The Sex Sphere
(1983, novel, science fiction...Ace, New York, US)
The 57th Franz Kafka
(1983, short stories...Ace, New York, US)
Light Fuse and Get Away
(1983, poetry...Carp Press, Lynchburg, Virginia, US... privately published xerox edition of 50)
The Fourth Dimension: A Guided Tour of the Higher Universes
(1984, non-fiction... mathematics... has also been subtitled "Toward a Geometry of Higher Reality")
The Secret of Life
(1985, novel...Bluejay, US, hbk)
Master of Space and Time
(1985, novel, science fiction)
Mind Tools: The 5 Levels of Mathematical Reality
(1987, non-fiction... mathematics)
Wetware
(1988, novel, science fiction... book 2 'Bopper' trilogy)
The Hollow Earth
(1990, novel)
All the Visions
(1991, novel)
Transreal!
(1991, short stories, poems, graphics...WCS Books, Englewood, Colorado, US)
Live Robots
(1994, novels, science fiction, omnibus edition... contains Software and Wetware )
The Hacker and the Ants
(1994, novel, science fiction)
Freeware
(May 1997, novel, science fiction...Avon, (New York) US, hbk... working title was Limpware ?... book 3 'Bopper' trilogy)
Moldies & Meatbops
(1997, novels, science fiction, omnibus edition...SFBC #17425, US, hbk... contains Software, Wetware, and Freeware )
Rudy Rucker (editor)
(1987, anthology, short stories, science fiction...Arbor House, US)
Speculations on the Fourth Dimension: Selected Writings of C.H.Hinton
(19??, non-fiction)
Rudy Rucker, R.U.Sirius, Queen Mu (editors)
(1992, non-fiction, articles, reviews)
(1989, anthology, short stories, poetry, essays)
Software
- CA Lab: Rudy Rucker's Cellular Automata Laboratory
(1989, software...Autodesk, US... computer code by Rudy Rucker... software available online at: CA Lab Information and Download... cellular automata...
"Run on any PC, XT, AT, PS/2 or clone with graphics. CA Lab can get along with CGA but prefers VGA." --Rudy Rucker.)
- James Gleick's Chaos: The Software
(1990, software...Autodesk, US... Rudy Rucker wrote a lot of the computer code)
- Artificial Life Lab
(1993, book with software...Waite Group Press, US... computer code by Rudy Rucker... software available online at: Boppers Program Information and Download)
- Capow!
(199?, Windows software...computer code by Rudy Rucker... shareware available online at: CAPOW Information and Download... cellular automata)
Short Fiction
"Bus Ride -- December 20, 1962" by Rudy Rucker
(stream-of-consciousness piece, originally published in The Pegasus , an annual magazine published by The Chevalier Literary Society in Louisville, Kentucky, June 1963...
"Later I lifted this piece nearly intact for use at the end of the third chapter of my totally transreal The Secret of Life " --Rudy Rucker.)
"Instability" by Paul Di Filippo and Rudy Rucker
(written in Los Gatos/Providence, 1987... originally published in The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction , September 1988...
reprinted in the anthology What Might Have Been, Volume II edited by Gregory Benford, 19??...
and in the collection Transreal! by Rudy Rucker, WCS Books, US, 1991)
"The Miracle" by Rudy Rucker
(originally published in The Pegasus , an annual magazine published by The Chevalier Literary Society in Louisville, Kentucky, March 1962)
"Randy Karl Tucker, or, The Education of a Moldie-Lover" by Rudy Rucker
(originally published in the anthology Cybersex edited by Richard Glyn Jones, 1996... features the main character from Freeware )
*note: For a complete listing of every short piece (poems, short stories, essays) written by Rudy Rucker up to 1991, see the entry for Transreal! . I would appreciate being kept informed of his published short work since 1991.
Book Reviews
By Rudy Rucker
Imagined Worlds by Freeman Dyson reviewed by Rudy Rucker
(review originally published in The Washington Post ... reprinted in International Herald Tribune , Friday, 25 April 1997)
Also See
- Afterlives edited by ?
(1986, anthology, science fiction...Vintage Books, US... contains: "In Frozen Time" by Rudy Rucker)
- Changes edited by ?
(1983, anthology, science fiction...Ace Books, New York, US... contains: "The Indian Rope Trick Explained" by Rudy Rucker)
- Cybersex edited by Richard Glyn Jones
(1996, anthology, science fiction...Raven Books, London, UK pbk... contains: "Randy Karl Tucker, or, The Education of a Moldie-Lover" by Rudy Rucker)
- Elsewhere edited by ?
(1981, anthology, science fiction...Ace Books, New York, US... contains: "Tales of Houdini" by Rudy Rucker)
- The Microverse edited by ?
(1989, anthology, science fiction...Bantam Books, New York, US... contains: "As Above, So Below" by Rudy Rucker)
- Mirrorshades: A Cyberpunk Anthology edited by Bruce Sterling
(1986, short stories, anthology... contains: "Tales of Houdini" by Rudy Rucker)
- Semiotext(e) SF 14, Volume V, Issue 2 edited by Peter Lamborn Wilson, Rudy Rucker, Robert Anton Wilson
(1989, anthology...Autonomedia, Brooklyn, New York, US... contains: "Rapture in Space" by Rudy Rucker)
- Semiotext(e) USA edited by Peter Lamborn Wilson, Jim Fleming, Sue Ann Harkey
(198?, anthology...Autonomedia, Brooklyn, New York, US... contains: "Eschatology Rant" by Rudy Rucker)
- Storming the Reality Studio edited by Larry McCaffery
(1991, anthology... contains: an excerpt from Software )
- Synergy #1 edited by George Zebrowski
(1987, anthology, science fiction...HBJ Books, US... contains: "Inside Out" by Rudy Rucker)
- Synergy #2 edited by George Zebrowski
(1987, anthology, science fiction...HBJ Books, US... contains: "Probability Pipeline" by Marc Laidlaw and Rudy Rucker)
- The Universe edited by ?
(1987, anthology, science fiction...Bantam Books, New York, US... contains: "The Man Who Was A Cosmic String" by Rudy Rucker)
- What Might Have Been, Volume II edited by Gregory Benford
(19??, anthology, science fiction... contains: "Instability" by Paul Di Filippo and Rudy Rucker)
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