Summary Bibliography: Rudy Rucker

Author: Rudy Rucker Author Record # 1426
Legal Name: Rucker, Rudolf von Bitter
Birthplace: Louisville, Kentucky, USA
Birthdate: 22 March 1946
Language: English
Webpages: IMDB, rudyrucker.com, SFE, Wikipedia-EN
Used These Alternate Names:
ルーディ・ラッカー^?Rūdi Rakkā
, Rudolf v. B. Rucker
Author Tags: science fiction (12), cyberpunk (7), artificial intelligence (3), steampunk (3), singularity (2), mathematics (2), cosmology (1), historical fiction (1), apocalypse (1), satire (1), humor (1), cyclical universe (1), kafkaesque (1), ghost (1), water (1), hawaii (1), author portrait (1), Michael Blumlein (1), giant insects (1), parallel universe (1) and 13 additional tags. View all tags for Rudy Rucker

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Fiction Series

Postsingular
- 1 Postsingular (2007)
- 2 Hylozoic (2009)
- Hieronymus Bosch's Apprentice (2007) [SF]
The Hollow Earth
- 1 The Hollow Earth (1990)
- 2 Return to the Hollow Earth (2018)
- The Hollow Earth / Return to the Hollow Earth (2018) [O/1,2]
- Notes for Return to the Hollow Earth (2018) [NF]
Ware
- 1 Software (1982) also appeared as:
  - Translation: Software [French] (1986)
  - Translation:
    ソフトウェア^?Sofutowea
    [Japanese] (1989) [as by
    ルーディ・ラッカー^?Rūdi Rakkā
    ]
  - Translation: Software [Portuguese] (2000)
  - Serializations:
  - Translation: Software: i nuovi robot (Complete Novel) [Italian] (2000)
- 2 Wetware (1988) also appeared as:
  - Translation: Robojen poika [Finnish] (1993)
  - Serializations:
  - Translation: Wetware: gli uomini robot (Complete Novel) [Italian] (2001)
- 3 Freeware (1997) also appeared as:
  - Serializations:
  - Translation: Freeware: la nuova carne (Complete Novel) [Italian] (2001)
- 4 Realware (2000) also appeared as:
  - Serializations:
  - Translation: Realware, la materia infinita (Complete Novel) [Italian] (2005)
- Christmas in Louisville December 24, 2030 (1988) [SF]
- Live Robots (1994) [O/1,2]
- Moldies & Meatbops: Three *Ware Novels (1997) [O/1,2,3]
- The Ware Tetralogy (2010) [O/1,2,3,4]

Novels

White Light (1980) also appeared as:
- Translation:
  Weißes Licht^?Weisses Licht
  [German] (1981)
- Translation:
  ホワイト・ライト^?Howaito Raito
  [Japanese] (1992) [as by
  ルーディ・ラッカー^?Rūdi Rakkā
  ]
- Translation: Luce bianca [Italian] (1996)
Spacetime Donuts (1981) also appeared as:
- Serializations:
- Spacetime Donuts (Part 1 of 3) (1978)
- Spacetime Donuts (Part 2 of 3) (1979)
The Sex Sphere (1983) also appeared as:
- Translation:
  セックス・スフィア^?Sekkusu Sufia
  [Japanese] (1992) [as by
  ルーディ・ラッカー^?Rūdi Rakkā
  ]
Master of Space and Time (1984) also appeared as:
- Translation:
  Maître de l'espace et du temps^?Maitre de l'espace et du temps
  [French] (1986)
- Serializations:
- Translation: Signore dello spazio e del tempo (Complete Novel) [Italian] (1986)
The Secret of Life (1985) also appeared as:
- Translation: Le secret de la vie [French] (1986)
- Serializations:
- Translation: Il segreto di Conrad (Complete Novel) [Italian] (2003)
The Hacker and the Ants (1994) also appeared as:
- Variant: The Hacker and the Ants: Version 2.0 (2003)
Saucer Wisdom (1999)
Spaceland (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)

Collections

The 57th Franz Kafka (1983)
Transreal! (1991)
Gnarl! (2000)
Mad Professor: The Uncollected Short Stories of Rudy Rucker (2007)
Surfing the Gnarl (2012)
Complete Stories (2012)
Complete Stories: Volume One (2012)
Complete Stories: Volume Two (2012)
Transreal Cyberpunk (2016) with Bruce Sterling

Omnibus

All the Visions / Space Baltic (1991) [O] with Anselm Hollo
Maître de l'espace et du temps [French] (2005) [O]
Transreal Trilogy: Secret of Life / White Light / Saucer Wisdom (2014) [O]

Magazine Editor Series

Flurb
- Flurb: A Webzine of Astonishing Tales, Issue #1, Fall, 2006 (2006)
- Flurb: A Webzine of Astonishing Tales, Issue #2, Winter, 2006-2007 (2007)
- Flurb: A Webzine of Astonishing Tales, Issue #3, Spring-Summer, 2007 (2007)
- Flurb: A Webzine of Astonishing Tales, Issue #4, Fall-Winter, 2007 (2007)
- Flurb: A Webzine of Astonishing Tales, Issue #5, Spring-Summer, 2008 (2008)
- Flurb: A Webzine of Astonishing Tales, Issue #6, Fall-Winter, 2008 (2008)
- Flurb: A Webzine of Astonishing Tales, Issue #7, Spring-Summer, 2009 (2009)
- Flurb: A Webzine of Astonishing Tales, Issue #8, Fall-Winter, 2009 (2009)
- Flurb: A Webzine of Astonishing Tales, Issue #9, Spring-Summer, 2010 (2010)
- Flurb: A Webzine of Astonishing Tales, Issue #10, Fall-Winter, 2010 (2010)
- Flurb: A Webzine of Astonishing Tales, Issue #12, Fall-Winter, 2011 (2011)
- Flurb: A Webzine of Astonishing Tales, Issue #13, Spring, 2012 (2012)

Anthologies

Mathenauts: Tales of Mathematical Wonder (1987)
Semiotext[e] SF (1989) with Peter Lamborn Wilson and Robert Anton Wilson

Chapbooks

Jack and the Aktuals, or, Physical Applications of Transfinite Set Theory (2008)
Good Night, Moon (2011) with Bruce Sterling
Loco (2012) with Bruce Sterling
All the Visions (2014)
Where the Lost Things Are (2014) with Terry Bisson
Fjaerland (2015) with Paul Di Filippo
Totem Poles (2016) with Bruce Sterling
The Men in the Back Room at the Country Club (2018)

Nonfiction

Geometry, Relativity and the Fourth Dimension (1977) [only as by Rudolf v. B. Rucker]
Infinity and the Mind: The Science and Philosophy of the Infinite (1982)
The Fourth Dimension: Toward a Geometry of Higher Reality (1984) also appeared as:
- Variant: The Fourth Dimension (1984)
Mind Tools: The Five Levels of Mathematical Reality (1987)
Mondo 2000: A User's Guide to the New Edge (1992) with Queen Mu and R. U. Sirius
Artificial Life Lab (1993)
Seek! Selected Nonfiction (1999)
The Lifebox, the Seashell, and the Soul (2005)
Nested Scrolls: A Writer's Life (2011) also appeared as:
- Variant: Nested Scrolls: The Autobiography of Rudolf von Bitter Rucker (2011)
Twenty Years of Writing (2011)
Collected Essays (2012)
Notes for The Big Aha (2013)
Notes for Juicy Ghosts (2021)

Short Fiction Series

Delbert & Zeb
- 1 Probability Pipeline (1988) with Marc Laidlaw also appeared as:
  - Translation: Pipeline in den Surfspace [German] (1992)
  - Translation:
    確率パイプライン^?Kakuritsu Paipurain
    [Japanese] (1992) [as by Marc Laidlaw and
    ルーディ・ラッカー^?Rūdi Rakkā
    ]
  - Translation: Condotto di probabilità [Italian] (2001)
  - Translation: Surfer sur les probabilités [French] (2005)
- 2 Chaos Surfari (1989) with Marc Laidlaw also appeared as:
  - Translation: Surfer sur le chaos [French] (2005)
- 3 The Perfect Wave (2008) with Marc Laidlaw
- 4 Watergirl (2015) with Marc Laidlaw
- 5 @lantis (2017) with Marc Laidlaw
- Surfers at the End of Time (2019) with Marc Laidlaw

Short Fiction

Faraway Eyes (1980) also appeared as:
- Translation:
  Verträumte Augen^?Vertraeumte Augen
  [German] (1981)
A New Golden Age (1981)
Schrödinger's Cat (1981)
Tales of Houdini (1981) also appeared as:
- Translation:
  Les mésaventures de Houdini^?Les mesaventures de Houdini
  [French] (1987)
- Translation: Contos de Houdini [Portuguese] (1988)
- Translation: Houdinis Erzählungen [German] (1988)
- Translation:
  フーディニの物語^?Fūdini no Monogatari
  [Japanese] (1988) [as by
  ルーディ・ラッカー^?Rūdi Rakkā
  ]
- Translation: Vertelsels over Houdini [Dutch] (1989)
- Translation: Tarinoita Houdinista [Finnish] (1990)
- Translation: Le imprese di Houdini [Italian] (1994)
- Translation: Cuentos de Houdini [Spanish] (1998)
Buzz (1981)
A New Experiment with Time (1982)
The 57th Franz Kafka (1982) also appeared as:
- Translation: Le cinquante-septième Franz Kafka [French] (2005)
Peg-Man (1982) also appeared as:
- Variant: Pac-Man (1982)
- Translation: Peg-Man [German] (1983)
The Jack Kerouac Disembodied School of Poetics (1982) also appeared as:
- Translation: L'école Jack Kerouac de poésie désincarnée [French] (2005)
The Man Who Ate Himself (1982) also appeared as:
- Translation: L'homme qui se mangeait lui-même [French] (1984)
Inertia (1983)
Jumpin' Jack Flash (1983)
Message Found in a Copy of Flatland (1983)
Pi in the Sky (1983)
Sufferin' Succotash (1983)
The Facts of Life (1983)
The Indian Rope Trick Explained (1983)
The Last Einstein-Rosen Bridge (1983)
Monument to the Third International (1984) also appeared as:
- Translation: Monumento alla Terza Internazionale [Italian] (1986)
Storming the Cosmos (1985) with Bruce Sterling also appeared as:
- Translation:
  Die Erstürmung des Kosmos^?Die Erstuermung des Kosmos
  [German] (1987)
- Translation: Conquistare il cosmo [Italian] (1994)
- Translation: A l'assaut du cosmos [French] (2005)
Room to Grow (1986)
In Frozen Time (1986) also appeared as:
- Translation: Gefangen in der Zeit [German] (1988)
- Translation: Tempo Congelato [Italian] (1990)
Soft Death (1986) also appeared as:
- Translation: Ad vitam aeternam [French] (1987)
- Translation: Tod ohne Stachel AG [German] (1990)
- Translation: Morte soft [Italian] (2001)
Plastic Letters (1987)
Bringing in the Sheaves (1987)
Enlightenment Rabies (1987)
Inside Out (1987) also appeared as:
- Translation: Umgestülpt [German] (1991)
The Man Who Was a Cosmic String (1987)
Instability (1988) with Paul Di Filippo also appeared as:
- Translation: Instabilité [French] (1989)
- Translation: Instabilité [French] (2002) [as by Paul Di Filippo]
Wishloop (1988)
As Above, So Below (1989)
Rapture in Space (1989) also appeared as:
- Translation:
  宇宙の恍惚^?うちゅうのこうこつ
  Uchū no Kōkō
  Uchuu no Koukou
  [Japanese] (2001) [as by
  ルーディ・ラッカー^?Rūdi Rakkā
  ]
From Software (1991)
All the Visions (1991)
Easy As Pie (1993)
Big Jelly (1994) with Bruce Sterling also appeared as:
- Translation: Méduse [French] (2005)
- Translation: La grande gelatina [Italian] (2007)
The Loonies Need You (1995)
Randy Karl Tucker, or, The Education of a Moldie-Lover (1996) also appeared as:
- Translation: Randy Karl Tucker o l'educazione di un palla-di-formaggio [Italian] (2004)
The Square Root of Pythagoras (1999) with Paul Di Filippo also appeared as:
- Translation: La racine carrée de Pythagore [French] (2005)
The Andy Warhol Sandcandle (2000) with Marc Laidlaw also appeared as:
- Translation: La bougie des sables d'Andy Warhol [French] (2005)
Pockets (2001) with John Shirley also appeared as:
- Translation: Poches [French] (2004)
The Use of the Ellipse the Catalog the Meter & Vibrating Plane (2002) also appeared as:
- Variant: The Use of the Ellipse the Catalog the Meter & the Vibrating Plane (2007)
Junk DNA (2003) with Bruce Sterling
Jenna and Me (2003) with Rudy Rucker, Jr.
Frek in the Grulloo Woods (2003)
Guadalupe and Hieronymus Bosch (2005) also appeared as:
- Translation: Guadalupe e Hieronymus Bosch [Italian] (2009)
The Men in the Back Room at the Country Club (2005)
Panpsychism Proved (2006) also appeared as:
- Translation: Panpsihismul demonstrat [Romanian] (2012)
MS Found in a Minidrive (2006) with Edgar Allan Poe [also as by Rudy Rucker]
Cobb Wakes Up (2006)
Chu and the Nants (2006)
2+2=5 (2006) with Terry Bisson
Elves of the Subdimensions (2006) with Paul Di Filippo
Postsingular (2006)
The Third Bomb (2006)
Six Thought Experiments Concerning the Nature of Computation (2007)
Visions of the Metanovel (2007)
Postsingular Outtakes (2007)
Hormiga Canyon (2007) with Bruce Sterling
Tangier Routines (2008) also appeared as:
- Translation: Rutinas de Tánger [Spanish] (2013)
The Imitation Game (2008)
Message Found in a Gravity Wave (2008)
Qlone (2008)
Jack and the Aktuals, or, Physical Applications of Transfinite Set Theory (2008)
After Everything Woke Up (2009)
Colliding Branes (2009) with Bruce Sterling
All Hangy (2009) with John Shirley
Bad Ideas (2009)
Val and Me (2010)
The Skug (2010)
Good Night, Moon (2010) with Bruce Sterling
To See Infinity Bare (2011) with Paul Di Filippo
Dispatches from Interzone (2011)
The Fnoor Hen (2011)
Fjaerland (2011) with Paul Di Filippo
My Office Mate (2012)
Hive Mind Man (2012) with Eileen Gunn
Jane and the Roadspider (2012)
Loco (2012) with Bruce Sterling
Apricot Lane (2013)
Yubba Vines (2013) with Paul Di Filippo
Quantum Telepathy (2014)
Where the Lost Things Are (2014) with Terry Bisson
Attack of the Giant Ants (2014)
Petroglyph Man (2015)
Kraken and Sage (2016) with Bruce Sterling
Totem Poles (2016) with Bruce Sterling
The Knobby Giraffe (2016)
In the Lost City of Leng (2018) with Paul Di Filippo
Emojis (2018)
Juicy Ghost (2019)
Fat Stream (2020)
The Mean Carrot (2020)
Everything Is Everything (2020)
Mary Mary (2021)
Fibonacci's Humors (2021) with Bruce Sterling
Tooniverse Telemarketer (2023)
Who Do You Love? (2023)

Poems

"A Cambridge Room ..." (1983)
"At Dancing School ..." (1983)
"I Feel Pretty Good, Considering..." (1983)
"In the World, the Ashes of My Neighbor's House Sift By..." (1983)
"New Ream..." (1983)
"This Poem Proclaims the Odor of... .." (1983)
"Winter Wastes..." (1983)
Bosch's St. Anthony (1983)
Causes of Blindness (1983)
Drunken-Hearted Man (1983)
For Sylvia on Our 11th Anniversary (1983)
Kurt Gödel (1983)
Lucifer (1983)
President Discharged in Storm (1983)
Repatriate (1983)
She Got a Phonograph (1983)
The 1976 Circus (1983)
The New Office (1983)
The Æther (1983)
Thirty-One (1983)
This Year (1983)
White Saturday & Sunday Morning (1983)
Winter Weekends (1983)

Essay Series

Thought Experiments
- Adventures in Gnarly Computation (2005)
- The Great Awakening (2008)
Viewpoint
- Cellular Automata (1987)

Essays

Preface (Geometry, Relativity and the Fourth Dimension) (1976) [only as by Rudolf v. B. Rucker]
Life in the Fourth Dimension: C. H. Hinton and His Scientific Romances (1980)
Hyperspherical Space and Beyond (1980)
On Hyperspherical Space and Beyond (1980)
Letter (Foundation #22) (1981)
Letter (Analog, February 1982) (1982)
Letter (Locus #255) (1982)
The Central Teachings of Mysticism (1982)
A Transrealist Manifesto (1983)
A Transrealist Manifesto (1983)
Phil Dick Lives (1984)
Preface (The Fourth Dimension) (1984)
Preface (The Fourth Dimension: Toward a Geometry of Higher Reality) (1984)
What SF Writers Want (1985)
What SF Writers Want (1985)
What is Cyberpunk? (1986)
Bulletin Symposium, Part Two of Two (The Bulletin of the Science Fiction Writers of America, Summer 1987) (1987) with Greg Bear and John Kessel and Nancy Kress and James Morrow and Kim Stanley Robinson
Access to Tools (1987)
Introduction (Mathenauts: Tales of Mathematical Wonder) (1987)
Jerry's Neighbors (1987)
Jerry's Neighbors: A Report from Lynchburg, VA. (1987)
Cyberpunk Forum/Symposium: Raising the Level (1988)
Introduction (Metrophage) (1988) only appeared as:
- Translation: Introduction (Métrophage) [French] (1989)
- Translation: Vorwort (Metrophage) [German] (1990)
Report from Silicon Valley (1988)
"Bob"'s Three Miracles an "Me" (1989)
Drugs and Live Sex--NYC 1980 (1989)
Drugs and Live Sex: New York City, 1980 (1989)
Introduction: Strange Attractor(s) (1989) with Peter Lamborn Wilson
Trip to Japan (1990)
Introduction (Minotaur Maze) (1990)
The Genesis of James Gleick's Chaos: The Software (1991)
Author's Notes (Transreal!) (1991)
Phil Dick Lives, 1983 and 1986 (1991)
Alien Contact (Alien Tongue) (1991)
Zip. 1 (1992)
ZIP.2 All Is Love (1993)
Zip3: Frankenstein and Artificial Life (1993)
Zip.4: Rudy Rucker Trips to the East (1994)
Read This (NYRSF, April 1994) (1994)
Geneaology of Characters in Software, Wetware and Freeware (1997)
Letters from Home (1998)
In Praise of Bruce Sterling (1998)
Author's Note (Gnarl!) (2000)
Notes on the Stories (Gnarl!) (2000)
Afterword (White Light) (2001)
A Transreal Guide to San José (2002)
Preface for The Hacker and the Ants, Version 2.0 (2003)
Introduction (Fuzzy Dice) (2003)
(Beginnings of) A Writer's Toolkit (2003)
Notes on Charles Stross's Accelerando (2005) also appeared as:
- Translation: Einige Anmerkungen zu Charles Stross' Accelerando [German] (2007)
Memories of Robert Sheckley (2006)
Rudy Rucker on PKD (2006)
Review of the Film A Scanner Darkly by Richard Linklater (2006)
From the Editor (Flurb, #1) (2006)
Editor's Note to the Second Edition (The Hollow Earth) (2006)
Introduction (Mad Professor) (2007)
From the Editor (Flurb #2) (2007)
From the Editor (Flurb, #2) (2007)
From the Editor (Flurb #3) (2007)
From the Editor (Flurb #4) (2007)
To Be or Not To Be: Mundane SF (2007)
From the Editor (Flurb #5) (2008)
From the Editor (Flurb #6) (2008)
From the Editor (Flurb #7) (2009)
From the Editor (Flurb #8) (2009)
From the Editor (Flurb #9) (2010)
Afterword (The Ware Tetralogy) (2010)
From the Editor (Flurb #10) (2010)
The Care and Feeding of Authors (2010)
From the Editor (Flurb #11) (2011)
From the Editor (Flurb #12) (2011)
The 57th Franz Kafka (introduction) (2011)
Introduction (Complete Stories: Volume One) (2012)
Surfing the Gnarl (2012)
From the Editor (Flurb #13) (2012)
Introduction (What the Doctor Ordered) (2013)
My Di Fi (2013)
Preface (Transreal Trilogy: Secret of Life / White Light / Saucer Wisdom) (2014)
Preface (All the Visions) (2014)
Memories of David Hartwell (2016)

Cover Art

Transreal! (1991)
Flurb: A Webzine of Astonishing Tales, Issue #3, Spring-Summer, 2007 (2007)
Flurb: A Webzine of Astonishing Tales, Issue #4, Fall-Winter, 2007 (2007)
With a Little Help (2009)
Billy's Picture Book (2010)
Nested Scrolls: A Writer's Life (2011)
Twenty Years of Writing (2011)
Complete Stories: Volume One (2012)
Complete Stories: Volume Two (2012)
Turing & Burroughs (2012)
Locus, #629 June 2013 (2013)
The Big Aha (2013)
Notes for The Big Aha (2013)
Transreal Trilogy: Secret of Life / White Light / Saucer Wisdom (2014)
All the Visions (2014)
Thoreau's Microscope plus "Paul and Me" and "Fidelity" and "Know How, Can Do" and more (2018)
The Hollow Earth / Return to the Hollow Earth (2018)
Return to the Hollow Earth (2018)
Turing & Burroughs (2019)
Billy's Picture Book (2020)

Interior Art

Mandelbrot Set (1987)
Transreal! (1991)
Saucer Wisdom (1997)
Seek! Selected Nonfiction (1999)
Guadalupe and Hieronymus Bosch (2005)
2+2=5 (2006)
Flurb #1 (2006)
After Everything Woke Up (2009)
Billy's Picture Book (2010)
Nested Scrolls: A Writer's Life (endpapers) (2011)
The Big Aha (2013)
Petroglyph Man (2015)

Reviews

Accelerando (2005) by Charles Stross

Interview Series

Locus Interview
- Rudy Rucker: The Gnarly Zone (2005) with Rudy Rucker
- Quantum Wetware: Rudy Rucker (2013) with Rudy Rucker

Interviews by This Author

Marc Laidlaw (1993) with Marc Laidlaw
Conversazione con l'autore (Kalifornia) [Italian] (1995) with Marc Laidlaw

Interviews with This Author

On the Edge: Interview with Rudy Rucker (1983) by William D. Vernon
Rudy Rucker (1985) by uncredited
Rudy Rucker (1987) by Richard Kadrey
Rudy Rucker: Boing-Boing's Exclusive Interview (1990) by Mark Frauenfelder
Rudy Rucker: The Gnarly Zone (2005) by Rudy Rucker
Load on the Miracles and Keep a Straight Face (2012) by Terry Bisson
Quantum Wetware: Rudy Rucker (2013) by Rudy Rucker
Author Spotlight: Rudy Rucker (2016) by Liz Argall
Interview with Rudy Rucker (2019) by William Squirrell

Non-Genre Titles

Novels

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

Summary Bibliography: Rudy Rucker

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