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Rudy Rucker
Kirjat ja teokset yhdessä paikassa: 34 kirjaa, julkaisuja vuosilta 2003–2025, suosituimpiin kuuluu Jim and the Flims. Vertaile teosten hintoja ja tarkista saatavuus suomalaisista kirjakaupoista.
34 kirjaa
Kirjojen julkaisuvuodet: 2003–2025.
A writer's journey through grief. The Sqinks Journal. Rucker's notes on losing his wife, writing his SF novel SQINKS, and finding love once more. Sadr and happy, both. With a master's insights into his craft. Most of the book is in the form of a journal of writing notes, with frequent speculations about where the story is going. In some ways the novel is like an autobiography, with a character who is living the author's life. The entries are personal, and often funny. It's a writer's life seen from the inside. Sqinks is transreal cyberpunk love story. I use the my word "transreal" to refer to SF tales that mirror the author's own life. That is to say, the novel is about Rudy. Throughout the novel, the narrator is trying to finish writing. And to find a way to publish it. A writer's life indeed
Welcome to Creature Feature, a collection of terrifying tales that will make your skin crawl and your heart race. From miniature monsters to alien parasites, to the most feared monster of the 20th century, these stories will leave you trembling with fear. Storm Philip Fracassi's dungeon to cross swords with a terrifying creature in "Ergamul," get infested by Brian Evenson's alien parasites in "The Nichols Defense," and meet the most feared monster of the 20th century in Rudy Rucker's classic "The Third Bomb." And that's not all-get eaten alive by Evan J. Peterson in "The Parachute Job," hunt alien prey in S. G. Murphy's "Land Of The Blind," and binge Channel 666 in Christopher Farnsworth's "Where The Dead People Live." Plus, don't miss the spine-tingling poem "The Chapel of the Dormition" by Elizabeth Rayne. So brace yourself for a journey into the unknown, where the monsters are real and the terror is palpable. Creature Feature will leave you screaming for more
"Juicy Ghosts" is a fast-paced adventure novel, with startling science, engaging dialog-and a happy ending. The novel treats near-future versions of telepathy and immortality. It's also a redemptive political tale, reacting to the chaos of the 2020 US presidential election. The tone is hip, bright, and darkly comic, with generous helpings of Rucker's SF surrealism. Romances interweave the tale.
"Juicy Ghosts" is a fast-paced adventure novel, with startling science, engaging dialog-and a happy ending. The novel treats near-future versions of telepathy and immortality. It's also a redemptive political tale, reacting to the chaos of a contested US presidential election. The tone is hip, bright, and darkly comic, with generous helpings of Rucker's SF surrealism. Romances interweave the tale.
Notes for Juicy Ghosts is a book-length volume, a bit longer than the novel Juicy Ghosts. It includes writing journal entries, novel outtakes, and plans. Notes for Juicy Ghosts also covers six short stories that Rucker wrote and published while working on the novel. The book has thirty grayscale illustrations, including drawings, photos, and seventeen paintings Rucker did along the way
In 2005, the editors of Metro Silicon Valley, San Jose's alternative weekly newspaper, gave Gary Singh his own column, "Silicon Alleys," to explore the underbelly of San Jose from a perspective only a creative native could offer. To this day, he still writes the column every week. Now a selection of Gary's greatest hits, over 250 columns in chronological order, is available in one mammoth volume, hand-picked by the columnist. Following a gnarly foreword by cyberpunk science fiction pioneer Rudy Rucker, a glorious mishmash of humanity emerges. UFO researchers sit right alongside rock stars, repo men and professional wrestlers. Buddhist scholars hold column space with women's drinking clubs. Abandoned strip malls return to life. From punk rock to high art, from dive bars to luxury digs, from literary vibes to forgotten history, no other body of work more aptly sorts out the guts of America's 10th largest city than Gary's weekly column.
Rudy Rucker’s early cyberpunk novel mixes a unique vision of a future with hippie humor, true love, and gonzo sensibilities. In the future, society is run by a computer, Phizwiz; America is simply Us, a collection of Users known as Drones and Dreamers, near-automatons whose every need is provided for. But Phizwiz lacks creativity, and its vapid entertainment is becoming unfulfilling, especially for curious young Vernor Maxwell. Seeking to add a creative soul to Phizwiz, a hard-partying elite has learned how to plug their minds into the computer. Joining them, Vernor finds a way to build a scale-ship—and becomes an incredible shrinking man. He soon tunnels down below the atomic level and finds himself at the intergalactic top—with the power to smash the machine, once and for all. . . . Night Shade Books’ ten-volume series with Rudy Rucker collects nine of the brilliantly weird novels for which the mathematician-turned-author is known, as well as a tenth, never-before-published book, Million Mile Road Trip. We’re proud to collect in one place so much of the work of this influential figure in the early cyberpunk scene, and to share Rucker’s fascinating, unique worldview with an entirely new generation of readers.
Infinity and the Mind
Rudy Rucker
Princeton University Press
2019
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A dynamic exploration of infinityIn Infinity and the Mind, Rudy Rucker leads an excursion to that stretch of the universe he calls the "Mindscape," where he explores infinity in all its forms: potential and actual, mathematical and physical, theological and mundane. Using cartoons, puzzles, and quotations to enliven his text, Rucker acquaints us with staggeringly advanced levels of infinity, delves into the depths beneath daily awareness, and explains Kurt G del's belief in the possibility of robot consciousness. In the realm of infinity, mathematics, science, and logic merge with the fantastic. By closely examining the paradoxes that arise, we gain profound insights into the human mind, its powers, and its limitations. This Princeton Science Library edition includes a new preface by the author.
This volume documents the plans, brainstorms, sketches, paintings, and journals that went into Rudy Rucker's three-year journey of crafting his wildest novel yet: "Million Mile Road Trip." The "Notes" are is in fact a bit longer than the novel itself. The book includes forty-eight of Rucker's illustrations, many of them in color. A unique view into a writer's process. the taste of his highs and lows, and the lively play of his mind.
Author Rudy Rucker offers a unique vision of life, death, and the infinite worlds that lie beyond in this thought-provoking, inspiring, romantic—and funny as hell—mathematical SF novel. Young prof Felix Rayman spends his days in another world. Between teaching indifferent students, pondering his theories on infinity, napping, and worrying about his wife, he’s barely here. But when his dreams separate him from his physical body, Felix plunges headfirst into a transfinite universe that looks a lot like the afterworld—complete with angels, demons, and the restless souls of the dead. And it only gets stranger, as his trials and tribulations—in the company of a giant talking beetle—send Felix up other-worldly peaks that range past infinity to the zone of the White Light, where Nothing and Everything are the same. Night Shade Books’ ten-volume series with Rudy Rucker collects nine of the brilliantly weird novels for which the mathematician-turned-author is known, as well as a tenth, never-before-published book, Million-Mile Road Trip. We’re proud to collect in one place so much of the work of this influential figure in the early cyberpunk scene, and to share Rucker’s fascinating, unique worldview with an entirely new generation of readers.
Return to the Hollow Earth is Rucker's second steampunk novel featuring Mason Reynolds. In 1850, Mason and his wife Seela embark upon a perilous trip around Cape Horn to San Francisco. Their ship sinks, but they're saved by a tentacled, flying nautilus--who carries them to meet Edgar Allan Poe. Poe leads them on a return voyage to the Hollow Earth, passing through the throat of a thousand-mile-deep maelstrom at the North Pole. Within the Hollow Earth, they learn that the god-like woomo sea cucumbers mean to send them them on a epic mission across space and time. The initial stage of this mission brings them to Santa Cruz, California--in the year 2018. And then things get gnarly.
The Hollow Earth is a steampunk SF novel. In 1836, our young narrator Mason Reynolds leaves his farm, befriends the dissolute Edgar Allan Poe, and falls through a deep hole in the ice of Antarctica. Astounding adventures in the Hollow Earth ensue. Mason and Poe make their way back to surface. And then they encounter Poe's double... Return to the Hollow Earth is Rucker's sequel to The Hollow Earth. Our young hero Mason and his wife Seela embark on a return voyage to the Hollow Earth with Edgar Allan Poe, traversing a great maelstrom at the North Pole. And when they return to the surface, they're in Santa Cruz, California--in the year 2018.
The Hollow Earth is a steampunk SF novel. In 1836, our young narrator Mason Reynolds leaves his farm, befriends the dissolute Edgar Allan Poe, and falls through a deep hole in the ice of Antarctica. Astounding adventures in the Hollow Earth ensue. Mason and Poe make their way back to surface. And then they encounter Poe's double... Return to the Hollow Earth is Rucker's sequel to The Hollow Earth. Our young hero Mason and his wife Seela embark on a return voyage to the Hollow Earth with Edgar Allan Poe, traversing a great maelstrom at the North Pole. And when they return to the surface, they're in Santa Cruz, California--in the year 2018.
The Hollow Earth is a classic work of American steampunk. In 1836, our seventeen-year-old narrator Mason Reynolds leaves his father's Virginia farm with the black Otha. He befriends the dissolute Edgar Allan Poe, and they fall through a thousand-mile-deep hole in the ice of Antarctica. Within the Hollow Earth, Mason woos and wins Seela, who lives upon a giant flower. At the earth's the core he finds a sky-surfing tribe known as the black gods-and a cluster of giant, god-like sea cucumbers known as woomo. Mason, Seela, and Poe make their way out through the crust and back to Earth. But due to their time in the strong light of the woomo, their skins are black. And then they encounter Poe's double. The adventure continues in Return to the Hollow Earth. The Hollow Earth novels were updated in 2021 to remove offensive racial epithets.
Rudy Rucker's book length color-illustrated writing notes for his novel "Return to the Hollow Earth." A fun, giddy insight into the mind of an author. And a a practical introduction into the process of writing a novel. Illustrated with 50 drawings, color photos, and color paintings. Why are sea cucumbers like gods? What if white people turn black? What kind of person writes novels about the Hollow Earth? Was Eddie Poe a good guy? How can you travel into the future? Are flying saucers alive? How do you write a book? Is Mason Reynolds real? What does the tunnel to MirrorEarth look like? Professor Rucker explains all
The Lifebox, the Seashell, and the Soul: What Gnarly Computation Taught Me About Ultimate Reality, The Meaning of Life, And How to Be Happy
Rudy Rucker
Transreal Books
2016
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