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30 Books

With Links to Rudy's Pages for the Books

Hylozoic, SF novel (sequel to Postsingular), work in progress.

Postsingular, SF novel, Tor Books, Fall, 2007.
Postsingular web page.

Mad Professor, new stories, Thunder's Mouth Press, (January, 2007).

Mathematicians in Love, novel, Tor Books, (December, 2006).
Mathematicians in Love web page.

The Lifebox, the Seashell, and the Soul: What Gnarly Computation Taught Me About Ultimate Reality, the Meaning Of Life, and How To Be Happy, nonfiction, Thunder's Mouth Press, (hardback October, 2005, paperback October 2006).
Lifebox web page.

Frek and the Elixir, novel, Tor Books, 2004.
Frek web page
.

As Above, So Below: A Novel of Peter Bruegel, historical novel, Tor Books, 2002.
Bruegel Novel web page.

Software Engineering and Computer Games, textbook, Addison-Wesley, 2002.
Game textbook's web page
.

Spaceland, novel, Tor Books, 2002. Ebook edition of Spaceland.
Spaceland web page.

Realware, novel, Avon Books, 2000.

Gnarl!, collected stories, Four Walls Eight Windows, 2000.

Saucer Wisdom, novel, Tor Books, 1999.
Saucer Wisdom web page

Seek!, selected nonfiction, Four Walls Eight Windows, 1999.

Freeware, novel, Avon Books 1997.

The Hacker and the Ants, novel, Avon Books 1994, Four Walls Eight Windows 2003.

Transreal!, poetry, fiction and nonfiction collection, WCS Books 1991.  (Nearly all the fiction and nonfiction pieces also appear in Seek! and Gnarl!). Available from Cambrian Publications.

The Hollow Earth, novel, William Morrow & Co. 1990, Avon Books 1992, Monkeybrain Books, November 2006.

All the Visions, memoir, Ocean View Books, 1991. Amazon link.

*Wetware, novel, Avon Books 1988, Avon Books 1997.

Mind Tools, nonfiction, Houghton Mifflin 1987.

*The Secret of Life, novel, Bluejay Books 1985. Ebook edition.

Master of Space and Time, novel, Bluejay Books 1984, Baen Books 1985, Thunder's Mouth Press 2005.

The Fourth Dimension, nonfiction, Houghton Mifflin 1984.

*The Sex Sphere, novel, Ace Books 1983.

*The Fifty-Seventh Franz Kafka, story collection, Ace Books 1983. (All these stories appear in Gnarl!)

Software, novel, Ace Books 1982, Avon Books 1987, Avon Books 1997.

Infinity and the Mind, nonfiction, Birkhäuser ‘82, Bantam ‘83, Princeton University Press, 1995. 

White Light, novel, Ace Books 1980, Wired Books 1997, Four Walls Eight Windows 2001.

*Spacetime Donuts, novel, Ace Books 1981.

Geometry, Relativity and the Fourth Dimension, nonfiction, Dover 1977.

[* means out of print.  My books are listed here in the order written, newest to oldest.]

Table showing foreign editions sorted by country --- ffifteen countries in all.

Table showing the foreign editions sorted by book.

List of domestic and foreign agents for Rucker's books.

Books Edited

MONDO 2000: A User's Guide to the New Edge, edited with Queen Mu and R.U. Sirius. HaperCollins, 1992. (Out of print.)

Semiotex(e) SF, edited with Peter Lamborn Wilson and Robert Anton Wilson. Autonomedia 1989. (In print (?) Contact Autonomedia, 55 S. 11th St., Brooklyn, NY 11211-0568.)

Mathenauts: Tales of Mathematical Wonder. Arbor House, 1987. (Out of print.)

Speculations on the Fourth Dimension: Selected Writings of Charles Howard Hinton. Dover, 1983. (In print (?)).

Audio & Video

Like A Passing River. Spoken word and classical music CD, with Roy Whelden, Karen Clark, and American Baroque. New Albion Records, 1995.

Cellular Automata. VHS video, Media Magic, 1990. (P.O.Box 507, Nicasio, CA 94946; Phone (415)662-2426.)

Chaos.  VHS video, Media Magic, 1990. (P.O.Box 507, Nicasio, CA 94946; Phone (415)662-2426.)

Several other tapes and videos are available from

Sound Photosynthesis..

Software

The Pop Framework. Windows software framework for creating computer games.

CAPOW   Continuous-Valued Cellular Automata.  Windows software for simulating 1D and 2D continuous valued cellular automata, 1994-1998. Written by Rudy Rucker and his students.

HYPERCUBE98. Tumbling Hypercubes.   Windows software for visualizing solid and wireframe four-dimensional hypercubes.   Written by Farideh Dormishian and Rudy Rucker.

BOPPERS.  Artificial Life Laboratory.   First published as Artificial Life Lab, Waite Group, 1993.

DOS Gnarl (Spirograph, Chaotic Vine, Quartic Julia Sets). Three diverse gnarly DOS programs, first published online in HOTWIRED.)

James Gleick's CHAOS: The Software.   Written by James Glieck, Josh Gordon, Rudy Rucker and John Walker. Autodesk, 1990.

CELLAB.  Discrete-Valued Cellular Automata Laboratory.  Originally released as CA Lab: Rudy Rucker's Cellular Automata Laboratory. Written by Rudy Rucker and John Walker. Autodesk 1989.

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