Rudy Rucker, Author . Tor $27.95 (560p) ISBN 978-0-7653-1059-0
Welcome to suburban life in 3003, after NuBioCom collapsed the biome in 2666 and destroyed the last of Earth's original animal species (and every DNA record needed to re-create them), replacing them with company-designed "kritters." Frek
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Rudy Rucker, Author . Thunder's Mouth $35 (564p) ISBN 978-1-56025-722-6
Timothy Leary meets Bill Gates in this muddled book, part memoir of a life spent teaching mathematical logic, part history of computer science, but mostly a long, strange quest for the meaning of life. UC-San Jose computer scientist Rucker argues...
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Rudy Rucker, Author . Tor $24.95 (364p) ISBN 978-0-765-31584-7
Rucker cleverly pulls off a romantic comedy about mathematicians in love. Following 2004's Frek and the Elixir
, this even zanier excursion into alternative versions of Berkeley, Calif., is set in university towns called Humelocke and Klownetown,
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Rudy Rucker, Author . Thunder's Mouth $15.95 (301p) ISBN 978-1-56025-974-9
Much cyberpunk SF is grimly noir in depicting future-shocked people trapped by their limitations, but in this collection of 19 laid-back yarns, Rucker (Mathematicians in Love
) finds human dilemmas much too important to take seriously. "Jenna...
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Rudy Rucker, Author . Tor $25.95 (320p) ISBN 978-0-7653-1741-4
Alt-cultural folk strive to save Earth from digitized doom in this novel from the prince of gonzo SF. A computer mogul’s threat to replace messy reality with clean virtuality and by a memory-hungry artificial intelligence called the Big Pig...
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Rudy Rucker, Author Tor $25.95 (334p) ISBN 978-0-7653-2074-2
Surfing across the transfinite dimensions, this giddy sequel to 2007’s Postsingular
chronicles the fight to keep Earth “gnarly” in the face of aliens who want to steal the quantum chaos that makes the planet interesting....
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Rudy Rucker , Prime (www.prime-books.com), $24.95 paper (752p) ISBN 978-1-60701-211-5
Rucker's four Ware novels—Software (1982), Wetware (1988), Freeware (1997), and Realware (2000)—form an extraordinary cyberweird future history with the heft of an epic fantasy novel and the speed of a quantum processor. Still exuberantly fresh...
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Rudy Rucker. PM (IPG, dist.), $12 trade paper (128p) ISBN 978-1-60486-309-3
Rucker (Wetware) is what you get when you cross cyberpunk (of which movement he is often hailed as the "Mad Professor") and the Beat poets, and this slim reprint volume showcases some of his wilder moments. "The Men in the Back Room at the Country...
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Rudy Rucker. Night Shade, $14.99 trade paper (504p) ISBN 978-1-59780-992-4
Tipping his hat to Thomas Pynchon, Jack Kerouac, and Douglas Adams, Rucker (Return to the Hollow Earth) immerses readers in a fantastical roadtrip adventure that’s a wild ride of unmitigated joy. Zoe Snapp, soon to graduate from Los Perros High (in...
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