Rudy Rucker





Rudy Rucker

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Rudolf von Bitter Rucker is an American mathematician, computer scientist, science fiction author, and one of the founders of the cyberpunk genre. He is best known for his Ware Tetralogy, the first two of which won Philip K. Dick awards. Presently, Rudy Rucker edits the science fiction webzine Flurb.


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A trove of gnarl and wonder! Complete Stories is now available in paperback from Transreal Books. Two volumes, over 500 pages each.



$16.00 Volume One, 1976-1995


Ranges from the cyberpunk to the transreal, including collaborations with Paul Di Filippo, Bruce Sterling and Marc Laidlaw.



$16.00 Volume Two, 1996-2011


This volume includes fifteen previously uncollected tales. Features collaboratio...

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Published on May 29, 2012 10:17
Average rating: 3.70 · 4,882 ratings · 487 reviews · 67 distinct works
Software (Ware, #1)
3.69 of 5 stars 3.69 avg rating — 834 ratings — published 1982 — 7 editions
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Wetware (Ware, #2)
3.76 of 5 stars 3.76 avg rating — 447 ratings — published 1988 — 5 editions
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Freeware (Ware, #3)
3.7 of 5 stars 3.70 avg rating — 328 ratings3 editions
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Postsingular
3.48 of 5 stars 3.48 avg rating — 357 ratings — published 2007 — 6 editions
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Realware (Ware, #4)
3.72 of 5 stars 3.72 avg rating — 220 ratings — published 2000 — 2 editions
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White Light
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3.87 of 5 stars 3.87 avg rating — 212 ratings — published 1980 — 3 editions
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The Hacker and the Ants
3.52 of 5 stars 3.52 avg rating — 215 ratings — published 1994 — 6 editions
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Mathematicians in Love
3.33 of 5 stars 3.33 avg rating — 210 ratings — published 2006 — 3 editions
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Master of Space and Time
3.76 of 5 stars 3.76 avg rating — 174 ratings — published 1985 — 6 editions
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Spaceland: A Novel of the F...
3.52 of 5 stars 3.52 avg rating — 172 ratings — published 2002 — 3 editions
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More books by Rudy Rucker…
Software Wetware Freeware Realware The Ware Tetralogy
Ware (7 books)
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3.711144427786107 of 5 stars 3.71 avg rating — 2,001 ratings

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“The simple process of eating and breathing weave all of us together into a vast four-dimensional array. No matter how isolated you may sometimes feel, no matter how lonely, you are never really cut off from the whole.”
Rudy Rucker

“Even if we become glowing clouds of ectoplasm, there's going to be something we're competing for - and most of us will feel as though we're getting screwed.”
Rudy Rucker, Year Million: Science at the Far Edge of Knowledge

“No one can point to the fourth dimension, yet it is all around us.”
Rudy Rucker

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