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1. The Ware Tetralogy by Rudy Rucker | |
Paperback: 704
Pages
(2010-06-01)
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Derivative and shallow
What a fun ride!
Rudy Rucker Writes Revelations
Hysterical
Essential Sci-FI |
2. The Lifebox, the Seashell, and the Soul: What Gnarly Computation Taught Me About Ultimate Reality, the Meaning of Life, and How to Be Happy by Rudy Rucker | |
Paperback: 560
Pages
(2006-09-28)
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Anything but Muddled
A Technical Introduction with Soul to Spare
universal automaton
This book will change the world!
Open your mind for a great purpose |
3. The Sex Sphere by Rudy Rucker | |
Paperback: 192
Pages
(2008-11-10)
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Rudy Rucker is a nut
Sex sphere, another rucker classic! |
4. Software by Rudy Rucker | |
Paperback: 176
Pages
(1987-10-01)
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Editorial Review Product Description 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, though, rebelling against their subjugation to set up their own society an the moon. And now they're offering creator Cobb immortality but at a stiff price: his body his soul ... and his world.It was Cobb Anderson who built the "boppers"--the first robots with real brains. Now, in 2020, Cobb is just another agedpheezerwith a bad heart, drinking and grooving on the old tunes in Florida retirement hell. His "bops" have come a long way, though, rebelling against their subjugation to set up their own society on the moon. And now they're offering creator Cobb immortality, but at a stiff price: his body, his soul. . .and his world. Customer Reviews (18)
Such a great book
Self-aware robot revolution at Moon
Couldn't get interested in this one to save my life
Not Free SF Reader
Creative, quick read |
5. Infinity and the Mind: The Science and Philosophy of the Infinite (Princeton Science Library) by Rudy Rucker | |
Paperback: 368
Pages
(2004-11-01)
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Editorial Review Product Description Using cartoons, puzzles, and quotations to enliven his text, Rucker guides us through such topics as the paradoxes of set theory, the possibilities of physical infinities, and the results of Gödel's incompleteness theorems. His personal encounters with Gödel the mathematician and philosopher provide a rare glimpse at genius and reveal what very few mathematicians have dared to admit: the transcendent implications of Platonic realism. Customer Reviews (19)
Is this statement true: 'this book is a collection of mistakes'?
Infinite Amount of Math
Rucker's personal notes on the Infinity problem
Infinity and the Mind
Misleading |
6. Wetware by Rudy V. B. Rucker | |
Mass Market Paperback: 183
Pages
(1997-04)
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Robot evolution implanted in humans
Brilliant
meatbop cyber opera
Not Free SF Reader
"Wet" wears thin |
7. Postsingular by Rudy Rucker | |
Paperback: 320
Pages
(2009-02-03)
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Editorial Review Product Description It begins the day after 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 intelligence. At first they succeed, but their plans are reversed by Chu, an autistic boy. The next time it isn’t so easy to stop them. Rudy Rucker lives in Los Gatos, California. It all begins the year after tomorrow 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 intelligence. At first they succeed, but their plans are reversed by Chu, an autistic boy. The next time it isn't so easy to stop them. Customer Reviews (19)
Excellent Novel
Pseudoscience fiction
For any science fiction collection strong in 'hard science' stories
A Physics Lesson That Fails
Silly, and not in a good way |
8. Hylozoic by Rudy Rucker | |
Paperback: 336
Pages
(2010-06-08)
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Editorial Review Product Description In Rucker's last novel, Postsingular, the Singularity happened. Life on Earth has been transformed by the awakening of all matter into consciousness and telepathic communication. The most intimate moments of your life can be experienced by anyone who cares to pay attention, or by hundreds of thousands of anyones if you are one of the Founders who helped create the Singularity. Customer Reviews (4)
Rudy rocks
An epic mess
Crazier than ever
Teleporting, Alien Manta Rays, Surfing and Infinity - all before lunch |
9. The Hollow Earth by Rudy Rucker | |
Paperback: 400
Pages
(2006-12-25)
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An Appropriately Mad Poe
Good, but not Rucker's best work
Huck Finn goes to the center of the earth... duh!
Poe Fans Will Love It!
The Great American SF Novel |
10. The Hacker and the Ants: Version 2.0 by Rudy Rucker | |
Paperback: 308
Pages
(2003)
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void writeRealisticCodingNovel(void);
Must-read prologue if you've read Software, Wetware, Freeware, and Realware
Mostly harmless
lived it
Not just a nano-other Silly Valley Romance |
11. Mathematicians in Love by Rudy Rucker | |
Paperback: 368
Pages
(2008-07-08)
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Editorial Review Product Description Reality is never more unpredictable than when two mathematicians are in love with the same girl, and can change the world to get her. Customer Reviews (5)
Excellent!
Rucker is the King of hidden truths
Surfer mathpunks rule, dog!
Wackyland
amusing not by the numbers satire |
12. The Secret of Life by Rudy Rucker | |
Hardcover: 246
Pages
(1985-06)
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Juvenalia |
13. Jack and the Aktuals, or, Physical Applications of Transfinite Set Theory: A Tor.Com Original by Rudy Rucker | |
Kindle Edition:
Pages
(2010-07-14)
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Editorial Review Product Description 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 like Russian dolls. No description can ever encompass the mind-bending experience of reading a Rudy Rucker story. Among Rudy Rucker’s many novels are the Ware tetralogy (Software, Wetware, Freeware, and Realware); White Light, Spacetime Donuts, Mathematicians in Love, and Postsingular. His nonfiction includes such works as Geometry, Relativity, and the Fourth Dimension and The Lifebox, the Seashell, and the Soul: What Gnarly Computation Taught Me About Ultimate Reality, the Meaning Of Life, and How To Be Happy. He is the great-great-great grandson of the philosopher Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel. |
14. AS ABOVE, SO BELOW. A Novel of Peter Bruegel by Rudy Rucker | |
Paperback:
Pages
(2002-01-01)
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Customer Reviews (6)
more
M. C. Eschers inspiration......
Spend some time in Renaissance Belgium
My Favorite Book of this Year
Painless History |
15. Master of Space and Time by Rudy Rucker | |
Paperback: 288
Pages
(2005-03-10)
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Editorial Review Product Description From a voyage to a mirror-image world where sluglike parasites make slaves of humanity, to trees and bushes that grow fries and pork chops, to a rain of fish, author Rudy Rucker—two-time winner of the Philip K. Dick Award—takes readers on the ultimate joyride. But once the gluons at the core of Harry's creation run out ... disaster looms for Harry and his friends. Customer Reviews (8)
Painful
All over the place
Cute, but not his best
Rucker's best novel -- wonderfully bizarre. 5+ stars
Michel Gondry's adaptation... |
16. Spacetime Donuts by Rudy Rucker | |
Paperback: 184
Pages
(2008-11-10)
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This book changed my life
A magical physics tour |
17. Freeware by Rudy Rucker | |
Mass Market Paperback: 262
Pages
(1998-03)
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Editorial Review Product Description Rudy Rucker has seen the future. . .and it is extreme. The Godfather of cyberpunk--a mad scientist bravely meddling in the outrageous and heretical--Rucker created Bopper Robots, who rebelled against human society in his award-winning classic Software. 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 has thrown the entire low-rent future into a serious tailspin. So the moon is the place to be, if you're a persecuted "moldie" or an enlightened "flesher" intent an creating a new, more utopian hybrid civilization. Of course up there, there are other intergalactic intelligences to contend with--and some not so intelligent--who have their own agendas and appetites. This is scientific fabulation at its most brazenly inventive--funny, cutting-edge and deeply informed. No writer alive puts it all together like Rudy Rucker.Artificial life forms made of soft plastic and gene-tweaked mold and algae, moldies are evolved robots in the year 2053--anatomically inventive and universally despised. In a sleazy, low-rent future, sexual fraternization with moldies is strictly taboo--a societal sin that is of no concern whatsoever to Randy Karl Tucker. A Kentucky boy who has seriously strayed from the Heritagist religion1s stern teachings about the evils of artificial life, Randy feels a definite something for Monique, moldie bookkeeper and maid at the Clearlight Terrace Court Motel But Monique1s sudden and inexplicable abduction from the planet--coupled with unsettling revelations about Randy1s own dubious origins--is dragging the degenerate flesher and all those around him into an ugly, conspiratorial mess. . .even as it pulls an unsuspecting humanity ever-closer to a stunning encounter with intergalactic intelligence. Customer Reviews (17)
Unfortunately, I had to pay for this book
Decent, Not Great, Cyberpunk From Randy Rucker
Not Free SF Reader
Not Rudy's finest hour
Stuzzy |
18. Realware by Rudy Rucker | |
Paperback: 305
Pages
(2000-04-30)
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Editorial Review Product Description A leading mathmetician, computer scientist, and cyberpunk pioneer, Rudy Rucker writes novels that surprise and delight with an effervescent mix of cutting-edge science, raucous social satire, and deeply informed speculation into the nature and fate of humanity.Now, his latest work takes its rightful place in this distinguished and hilarious canon. It's 2054, and Phil Gottner doesn't know where his life is.His girlfriend is hooked on merge, a drug used in "bacteria-style" sex.His father has just been swallowed by a hyperspatial anomaly that materialized from a piece of art designed to project images of four-dimensional objects into three-dimensional space. Then, at the funeral, Phil meets and falls in love with Yoke Starr-Mydol, a young lovely visiting from the Moon. Spuring Phil's advances, Yoke flies to the Polynesian island of Tonga, where she discovers an alien presence at the bottome of the sea.Calling themselves Metamartians, the aliens offer Yoke an alla,a handheld device that gives its owner the power of mind over matter--which, it turns out, is pretty much like having a magic wand. But as Phil pursues Yoke, and the altruistic Metamartians distribute more allas, he begins to suspect that his father's disappearance and presumed death are linked to the aliens and their miraculous gift.For it seems that the allas are accompanied by a fourth-dimensional entity known as Om, a godlike being who's taken a special interest in humans.Now Phil and Yoke must solve the mystery of the Metamartians and their god, before humanity uses its newfound powers to destroy itself altogether. Customer Reviews (11)
Not Free SF Reader
Mixed feelings
Maybe it's paranoia but...
A must-read for fans but... I loved the others in the series but this one fell flat for me.Still, if you've read the others you have to read this one too.
Stuzzy culmination of the 'ware series |
19. Spaceland: A Novel of the Fourth Dimension by Rudy Rucker | |
Paperback: 304
Pages
(2003-07-04)
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Editorial Review Product Description Usually, tribute novels are like movie remakes: a bad idea.However, this tribute to Edwin A. Abbott's classic novel Flatland works wonderfully. This is because Spaceland is written by Rudy Rucker, a Silicon Valley professor of mathematics and computer science who is also a hard-SF writer with the most gonzo sensibility in science fiction.--Cynthia Ward Customer Reviews (19)
Ruder Rucker is The Ace of Hyperspace
Ever Wondered about the Fourth (Spacial) Dimension?
What a Wild Ride!!!
Vivid imagination but unlikeable characters...
Flatland "cubed" |
20. Seek! Selected Nonfiction by Rudy V. B. Rucker | |
Paperback: 356
Pages
(1999-04-30)
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Editorial Review Product Description "I'm Lenny Guidry, and it's requesttime.A little show we call "The Ghost Raising.'" Told in a collage of voices, Seek describes Rob's search for his father, a quest pursued not through San Francisco's streets, but through the labyrinth of the airwaves. "Drink plenty of liquids and keep your radio tuned to the coolest place on the dial --KWKH, Shreveport." Psychic readers, baseball an-nouncers, pirate DJ's,friends, and teachers join a rich, ringing aural autobiography that's as joyfully comic as it is compelling.Tune in to this choral symphony, sit back,read--and listen. Divided into three sections("Science," "Life," and "Art"), Seek! reads like a user's guideto the New Renaissance: after reading "A Brief History of Computers,"we can move on to "Cyberculture in Japan," visit Industrial Light andMagic, and examine Brueghel's Peasant Dance in depth. All areinfused with Rucker's intense delight and frustration with the thingsand people of this world; they inevitably provoke the kind ofstaring-into-space reveries long thought lost to our youth. Heprovides Web page URLs so that readers will have natural startingpoints for continuing research, including his own Web site's freesoftware for playing with cellular automata and other funkyalmost-living critters. As Rucker says to his students, referring tothe boundary between order and chaos (and providing a title for thisbook): Seek Ye the Gnarl! --Rob Lightner Customer Reviews (5)
Reminiscent of Richard Feynman Rucker's mathematical writings tend to focus on the more esoteric subjects of infinity and the fourth dimension. They include: (1) "Geometry, Relativity, and the Fourth Dimension" (1977); (2) "The Fourth Dimension: A Guided Tour of the Higher Universes" (1985); (3) "Mind Tools: The Five Levels of Mathematical Reality" (1988); (4) "Infinity and the Mind: The Science and Philosophy of the Infinite" by Rudy Rucker (1995); and (5) "Software Engineering and Computer Games" (To be published in Nov 2002). That he is regarded as a serious mathematician is evidenced by the fact that "Infinity and the Mind" is published by the Princeton University Press, one of the best publishers of books on mathematics, engineering and science in the world. In the area of software, Rucker is known for his participation in developing "Chaos" ands "CA (Cellular Automata)Lab", two highly innovative software programs that came out about 20 years ago. Cellular automata, which produce screen images that appear to berandomly generated patterns (in fact, the patterns are generated in accordance with simple rules) have been studied seriously by scientists (including Richard Feynman) interested in determining the patterns that underlie life. In fact, one of the earliest CA games was called "The Game of Life." Like Feynman, Rucker is a free spirit, interested in virtually everything he encounters in life. Fortunately for the rest of us, he also likes to write about it. Among the topics treated in this collection of his essays are: (1) what it's like to live in Lynchburg, VA with Jerry Falwell; (2) a visit to a semiconductor clean room; (3) his beloved dog, Arf; (4) the paintings of Peter Breughel; (5) visits to Japan, where Rucker's S/F is immensely popular; (6) a live sex show in Manhattan; (7) his life as a hippie and abuse of drugs; and of course (8) thoughts on the possible uses of cellular automata. Through it all comes the impression of a very good, very open, mind at work. I suspect that he really only writes to please himself; but fortunately he shares it with the rest of us. Readers with more of an interest in Rucker's S/F writings should consider buying "Gnarl!", a companion volume of essays on that topic.
Ruining Rudy's Reputation I used to have a pretty high opinion of Mr. Rucker, but reading this book took him down a few notches.His travelogues are "nothing to write home about," his self-aggrandizement gets annoying, his extravagant personal claims about cyberpunk and transreal writing are laughable, and his essays on Bruegel add nothing to art appreciation. The companion volume of fiction, "Gnarl!" is a much better read.
A good choice for Rucker fans "Seek!" is a collection of essays onvarious topics, published and unpublished, and therein lies one of theproblems: A lot of these essays would have been better off remainingunpublished. They're just not that interesting or well done. Even some ofthe published essays should have stayed buried in the pulps where they wereprinted. The book is of course required reading for die-hard Rucker fans,but the general reader would be better off sticking with his more carefullyedited books. His history of computers, for example, is a completelyunoriginal rehashing of the standard hardwware-based story. There'sabsolutely no point in reprinting it, particuarly as he has nothing to addto a thousand other books. There's another problem as well. Like manyvery bright academics, Rucker seems to believe that skill in one area-mathematics- makes him an expert in all areas. Unfortunately there are some(history, economics, political science, psychology) where he is notterribly well read, and again, like many academics form the hard scienceshe tends to view the social sciences as something you can just handleintuitively. Thus his views on matters of economics and policy tend to bethe kind you get from enthusiastic college sophmores. He can't admit thatsomeone could hold views opposed to his and still be a decent person;anyone who disagrees with him is basically evil. But that's par for coursewhen you spend much of your life in academia. Still, it's an interestingcollection, and there are a few gems scattered amidst the dross. His A-lifeintroduction is imaginative and particularly well done. My advice: Skip thehardcover and get the paperback.
An enjoyable trip with Mr Rucker I found some of the earlier material oncellular automata and other mathematical curiosities to be lessinteresting, probably because I have never explored them, and I can't sharethe enthusiasm Mr Rucker has for them. On the other hand, his essay on thehistory of computing I found fascinating. Overalll, I came away feelingthat these essays were written by a very real person, one who has managedto enjoy the fame he has achieved largely as a writer. He is not backwardin expressing his admiration for the opposite sex, and his openness andcandour is sometimes startling compared to other more conservative modernessayists.
Eclectic, inspiring, and fun!"Seek!" is a blast. "Seek!" isnothing less than a portrait of the author, and as such it is both poignantand trippy.I had a great time reading this one. ... Read more |
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