Rudy Rucker

About the Author

Rudy Rucker is a mathematician, computer scientist, professor, and writer who has twice won the Philip K. Dick Award for best SF paperback original, and has published a number of successful popular books on mathematical subjects, including The Fourth Dimension and Infinity and the Mind. He lives in show more Los Gatos, California. show less

Includes the names: Rudy Rucker, Rudolf Rucker, Rudy B. Rucker, ed. Rudy Rucker, Rudy V. B. Rucker, Rudolf V.B. Rucker, Rudy Von B. Rucker, Editor: Rudy Rucker, Rudolph V. B. Rucker, Rudy von Bitter Rucker, ルディラッカー, ルーディラッカー, ルーディ・ラッカー

Image credit: Rudy Rucker

Series

The Ware Tetralogy

Postsingular

Works by Rudy Rucker

Popular Recent

Software (1982) 980 copies

Infinity and the Mind: The Science and Philosophy of the Infinite (1982) 863 copies

Wetware (1988) 630 copies

The Fourth Dimension: A Guided Tour of the Higher Universes (1984) 570 copies

Freeware (1997) 447 copies

Geometry, Relativity and the Fourth Dimension (1977) 425 copies

Mind Tools: The Five Levels of Mathematical Reality (1987) 425 copies

White Light (1980) 390 copies

The Hacker and the Ants (1994) 364 copies

Postsingular (2007) 354 copies

Master of Space and Time (1984) 352 copies

Realware (2000) 284 copies

Mathematicians in Love (2008) 249 copies

Semiotext(e) SF (1989) — Editor — 248 copies

Spaceland (2002) 248 copies

The Hollow Earth (1990) 240 copies

Mondo 2000: A User's Guide to the New Edge (1992) 231 copies

The Ware Tetralogy (2010) 227 copies

The Lifebox, the Seashell, and the Soul: What Gnarly Computation Taught Me About Ultimate Reality, the Meaning of Life,… (2005) 180 copies

As Above, So Below: A Novel of Peter Bruegel (2002) 150 copies

Frek and the Elixir (2004) 145 copies

Seek! Selected Nonfiction (1999) 131 copies

Gnarl!: Stories (2000) 130 copies

Saucer Wisdom (1999) 127 copies

Mathenauts: Tales of Mathematical Wonder (1987) — Editor — 126 copies

Hylozoic (2009) 105 copies

Live Robots: Software/Wetware (1994) 91 copies

The Sex Sphere (1983) 85 copies

Spacetime Donuts (1981) 83 copies

The 57th Franz Kafka (1983) 70 copies

The Secret of Life (1985) 65 copies

Mad Professor: The Uncollected Short Stories of Rudy Rucker (2001) 62 copies

Surfing the Gnarl (2012) 61 copies

Transreal! (1991) 49 copies

Million Mile Road Trip (2019) 47 copies

Nested Scrolls: The Autobiography of Rudolf von Bitter Rucker (2011) 46 copies

Turing & Burroughs: A Beatnik SF Novel (2012) 46 copies

Moldies & Meatbops (1997) 36 copies

Jim and the Flims (2011) 35 copies

The Big Aha (2013) 26 copies

Artificial Life Lab/Book and Disk (1993) 23 copies

Transreal Cyberpunk (2016) 15 copies

Complete Stories (2012) 13 copies

Good Night, Moon (2010) 12 copies

Transreal Trilogy: Secret of Life, White Light, Saucer Wisdom (2014) 12 copies

Jack and the Aktuals, or, Physical Applications of Transfinite Set Theory (2010) 12 copies

Software Engineering and Computer Games (2002) 11 copies

All the Visions/Space Baltic (Ocean View Doubles) (1991) 11 copies

Juicy Ghosts (2021) 8 copies

Collected Essays (2012) 8 copies

Return to the Hollow Earth (1918) 7 copies

Journals: 1990 - 2014 (2012) 7 copies

Where the lost things are: A Tor.Com Original [Kindle Edition] (2014) 6 copies

Message Found in a Copy of Flatland [short fiction] 6 copies

The Hollow Earth & Return to the Hollow Earth (2018) 6 copies

All the Visions (2014) 6 copies

Asimov's Science Fiction: Vol. 47, No. 1 & 2 [January/February 2023] — Contributor — 5 copies

Loco [short fiction] (2012) 5 copies

The Men In The Back Room At The Country Club (2005) 5 copies

Flurb 02 4 copies

Flurb 01 4 copies

Flurb 7 4 copies

Better Worlds (2012) 4 copies

Señor del espacio y el tiempo (2020) 4 copies

Flurb 03 4 copies

Flurb 04 4 copies

Guadalupe and Hieronymus Bosch [short story] (2005) 3 copies

Chu and the Nants 3 copies

Notes for Juicy Ghosts (2021) 3 copies

Tales of Houdini 3 copies

Flurb 05 3 copies

Junk DNA [novelette] (2003) 3 copies

Complete Stories : Volume One : 1976-1995 (2012) 3 copies

Filosofo cyberpunk 3 copies

Complete Stories, Volume Two (Volume 2) (2012) 3 copies

Flurb 8 3 copies

The Imitation Game [short story] (2008) 3 copies

The Fnoor Hen {short story} 2 copies

Notes for The Big Aha (2013) 2 copies

Hive Mind Man 2 copies

Message Found In A Gravity Wave 2 copies

Faraway Eyes [short story] (1980) 2 copies

How To Make An Ebook (2012) 2 copies

Yubba Vines 2 copies

The Knobby Giraffe 2 copies

Peg-Man 2 copies

The Perfect Wave {novelette} 2 copies

Infinity and the Mind by Rucker, Rudy (1982) Hardcover 2 copies

Elves of the Subdimensions (2006) — Author — 2 copies

Panpsychism Proved (2006) 2 copies

Totem Poles [short fiction] 2 copies

The Third Bomb 2 copies

Postsingular [short fiction] 2 copies

A New Golden Age [short fiction] 2 copies

After Everything Woke Up 2 copies

Instability 2 copies

Flurb 6 2 copies

Inside Out (1987) 2 copies

Tangiers Routines 2 copies

Hormiga Canyon [short fiction] — Author — 2 copies

The loonies need you [short fiction] 1 copy

@lantis 1 copy

Unearth: The Magazine of Science Fiction Discoveries, Vol. 2, No. 3, Whole No. 7 (Summer, 1978) (1978) 1 copy

Surfers At The End Of Time (2019) 1 copy

Colliding Branes. (short story) 1 copy

Il Segreto Di Conrad 1 copy

La cuarta dimension 1 copy

Postsingular - Writing Notes 1 copy

Moldies Meatbops (1997) 1 copy

The Ware Tetralogy by Rudy Rucker (2010-07-01) (1656) 1 copy

Το άπειρο και ο νούς 1 copy

In The Lost City OF Leng 1 copy

Gödel, Zappa, Rock 'n' Roll : ein Roman vom Paradies der Zukunft 1 copy

CA lab Rudy Rucker's cellular automata laboratory : from Autodesk (1989) 1 copy

Emojis 1 copy

All The Interviews 1 copy

Mary Mary 1 copy

Flurb #13 1 copy

As Above, So Below [short story] 1 copy

Fibonacci's Humors 1 copy

Hyperspherical Space And Beyond 1 copy

Quantum Telepathy 1 copy

Six Thought Experiments Concerning the Nature of Computation [short story] (2005) 1 copy

Flurb 9 1 copy

Pockets [novelette] (2001) 1 copy

Visions of the Metanovel [short story] (2007) 1 copy

Cobb Wakes Up [short story] (2006) 1 copy

The Use of the Ellipse the Catalog the Meter & the Vibrating Plane [short story] (2002) 1 copy

Jenna and Me [short story] (2003) 1 copy

MS Found in a Minidrive [short story] (2006) 1 copy

Schrodinger's Cat 1 copy

2 + 2 = 5 [short story] (2006) 1 copy

Bad Ideas 1 copy

Qlone 1 copy

Easy As Pie 1 copy

Frek In The Grulloo Woods 1 copy

Hieronymus Bosch's Apprentice 1 copy

Postsingular Outtakes 1 copy

Val And Me 1 copy

Jumpin' Jack Flash 1 copy

Petroglyph Man 1 copy

The Jack Kerouac School Of Disembodied Poetics 1 copy

Exploring Cellular Automata (1989) 1 copy

Watergirl 1 copy

Robert Shults: The Superlative Light (2014) 1 copy

Chaos surfari [short fiction] 1 copy

Dispatches From Interzone 1 copy

The Skug 1 copy

Flurb 10 1 copy

Inertia 1 copy

Sufferin' Succotash 1 copy

Pi In The Sky 1 copy

The Last Einstein-Rosen Bridge 1 copy

Buzz 1 copy

The Facts Of Life 1 copy

The Man Who Ate Himself 1 copy

A New Experiment With Time 1 copy

The Indian Rope Trick Explained 1 copy

Mindtools 1 copy

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Associated Works

The Mind's I: Fantasies and Reflections on Self and Soul (1981) — Contributor — 2,800 copies

Mirrorshades: The Cyberpunk Anthology (1986) — Contributor — 1,619 copies

This Will Make You Smarter: New Scientific Concepts to Improve Your Thinking (2012) — Contributor — 800 copies

What Is Your Dangerous Idea? Today's Leading Thinkers on the Unthinkable (1914) — Contributor — 632 copies

The Ascent of Wonder: The Evolution of Hard SF (1994) — Contributor — 394 copies

Masterpieces of Fantasy and Wonder (1989) — Contributor — 329 copies

Redshift: Extreme Visions of Speculative Fiction (2001) — Contributor — 251 copies

Storming the Reality Studio: A Casebook of Cyberpunk and Postmodern Science Fiction (1991) — Contributor — 248 copies

Hieroglyph: Stories and Visions for a Better Future (2014) — Contributor — 241 copies

Year's Best SF 11 (2006) — Contributor — 235 copies

The Mammoth Book of Alternate Histories (2010) — Contributor — 203 copies

The 1983 Annual World's Best SF (1983) — Contributor — 199 copies

Alternate Heroes (What Might Have Been, Vol. 2) (1989) — Contributor — 189 copies

Wastelands 2: More Stories of the Apocalypse (2013) — Contributor — 187 copies

Year's Best SF 12 (2007) — Contributor — 186 copies

What Might Have Been, Volumes 1 & 2: Alternate Empires, Alternate Heroes (1989) — Contributor — 184 copies

Year's Best SF 14 (2009) — Contributor — 171 copies

The Ultimate Cyberpunk (2002) — Contributor — 151 copies

Elsewhere: Tales of Fantasy (1982) — Contributor — 144 copies

Live Without a Net (2003) — Contributor — 143 copies

With a Little Help (2010) — Cover artist, some editions — 127 copies

The Universe (1987) — Contributor — 114 copies

Futures from Nature (2007) — Contributor — 112 copies

Questionable Practices: Stories (2014) — Contributor — 86 copies

Fuzzy Dice (2003) — Introduction, some editions — 79 copies

CYBERSEX (1996) — Contributor — 77 copies

The Microverse (1989) — Contributor — 66 copies

ParaSpheres: Extending Beyond the Spheres of Literary and Genre Fiction: Fabulist and New Wave Fabulist Stories (2006) — Contributor — 59 copies

The Orbit Science Fiction Yearbook: No. 2 (1989) — Contributor — 58 copies

Afterlives (1986) — Contributor — 47 copies

Speculations on the Fourth Dimension (1980) — Editor — 45 copies

The Stories: Five Years of Original Fiction on tor.com (2013) — Contributor — 38 copies

The Last Books of H.G. Wells: The Happy Turning: A Dream of Life; and, Mind at the End of its Tether (1946) — Foreword, some editions — 32 copies

Poe's Lighthouse (2006) — Contributor — 28 copies

Kafkaesque: Stories Inspired by Franz Kafka (2011) — Contributor — 27 copies

The Big Book of Cyberpunk (2023) — Contributor — 27 copies

Fetish: An Anthology (1998) — Contributor — 25 copies

Christmas Forever (1993) — Contributor — 25 copies

Asimov's Science Fiction: Vol. 31, No. 8 [August 2007] (2007) — Author — 18 copies

Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine: Vol. 11, No. 1 [January 1987] (1907) — Author — 17 copies

Analog Science Fiction/Science Fact: Vol. CI, No. 4 (March 30, 1981) (1981) — Contributor — 14 copies

The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction September 1988, Vol. 75, No. 3 (1988) — Author — 12 copies

Asimov's Science Fiction: Vol. 36, No. 2 [February 2012] (2012) — Contributor — 12 copies

Pwning Tomorrow (2015) — Contributor — 12 copies

Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine: Vol. 6, No. 6 [June 1982] (1982) — Contributor — 11 copies

Asimov's Science Fiction: Vol. 39, No. 1 [January 2015] (2015) — Contributor — 11 copies

Asimov's Science Fiction: Vol. 42, No. 1 & 2 [January/February 2018] (1960) — Contributor — 11 copies

Asimov's Science Fiction: Vol. 42, No. 3 & 4 [March/April 2018] (2018) — Contributor — 11 copies

Asimov's Science Fiction: Vol. 37, No. 7 [July 2013] (2013) — Contributor — 10 copies

Golden Age SF: Tales of a Bygone Future (2006) — Contributor — 10 copies

Asimov's Science Fiction: Vol. 18, No. 12 & 13 [November 1994] (1994) — Author — 10 copies

The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction December 1982, Vol. 63, No. 6 (1982) — Contributor — 9 copies

Lightspeed Magazine, Issue 71 • April 2016 (2016) — Contributor — 8 copies

Analog 1 (1981) — Contributor — 8 copies

Asimov's Science Fiction: Vol. 39, No. 7 [July 2015] (2015) — Contributor — 7 copies

Asimov's Science Fiction: Vol. 41, No. 7 & 8 [July/August 2017] (2017) — Contributor — 7 copies

Postscripts Magazine, Issue 24/25: The New and Perfect Man (2011) — Contributor — 6 copies

Asimov's Science Fiction: Vol. 43, No. 11 & 12 [November/December 2019] (2019) — Contributor — 5 copies

Asimov's Science Fiction: Vol. 45, No. 7 & 8 [July/August 2021] (2021) — Contributor — 4 copies

Asimov's Science Fiction: Vol. 45, No. 3 & 4 [March/April 2021] (2021) — Author — 3 copies

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Common Knowledge

Legal name: Rucker, Rudolf von Bitter
Birthdate: 1946-03-22
Gender: male
Nationality: USA
Birthplace: Louisville, Kentucky, USA
Places of residence: Los Gatos, California, USA
Education: Swarthmore College (BA ∙ Mathematics ∙ 1967)
Rutgers University (PhD ∙ Mathematics ∙ 1973)
St. Xavier High School (Louisville, Kentucky)
Occupations: professor (Computer Science)
Relationships: Hegel, G.W.F. (great-great-great-grandfather)
Organizations: San Jose State University
State University of New York at Geneseo
Heidelberg University
Randolph-Macon Women's College (Lynchburg ∙ Virginia)
Agent: John Silbersack (The Bent Agency)

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Spacetime Donuts by Rudy Rucker

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beskamiltar | 1 other review | Apr 10, 2024 |

The Lifebox, the Seashell, and the Soul: What… by Rudy Rucker

Some interesting math leads to some half-baked philosophical speculation. I will resist further plays on the word 'baked' but there is a definite whiff of potsmoke emanating from this book.

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audient_void | 5 other reviews | Jan 6, 2024 |

Spaceland: A Novel of the Fourth Dimension by Rudy Rucker

"What is the fourth dimension, anyway?"
"I have no idea," I admitted.

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Jon_Hansen | 6 other reviews | Nov 22, 2023 |

Postsingular (Postsingular, 1) by Rudy Rucker

Only read 30-50 pages.... just not my kind of book. I don't tend to like books written in this style- is it called humor? comedy? sarcasm? Just seemed flipant.

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keithostertag | 16 other reviews | Oct 22, 2023 |

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