What if Alan Turing, founder of the modern computer age, escaped assassination by the secret service to become the lover of Beat author William Burroughs? What if they mutated into giant... More > shapeshifting slugs, fled the FBI, raised Burroughs’s wife from the dead, and tweaked the H-bombs of Los Alamos? A wild beatnik adventure, compulsively readable, hysterically funny, with insane warps and twists—and a bad attitude throughout.< Less
“Collected Essays” includes a lifetime's worth of thought: The nonfiction pieces from Rucker’s collections, “Transreal!” (1991) and “Seek!” (1999) plus many... More > newer essays as well. The book includes some sixty essays with a hundred illustrations. The essays fall into seven parts: (1) “The Art of Writing.” Manifestos and talks about writing science-fiction. (2) “Silicon Valley.” Cool scenes Rucker witnessed as he rode the Silicon Valley computer wave for over twenty years, starting in 1986. (3) “Weird Screens.” Graphical programs that have obsessed Rucker—cellular automata, artificial life, fractals, space curves, and virtual reality. (4) “Futurology.” Playful raps and speculations about the coming times. (5) “The Philosophy of Computation.” Where does it end? Immortality, artificial intelligence, and the birth of a universal mind? (6) “Personal Stories.” Stories Rucker tells to friends. (7) “Mentors.” Appreciations of the great minds and wild freaks who led Rucker along his path.< Less
Collected together in one mammoth volume: all of Rudy Rucker's science-fiction stories, a trove of gnarl and wonder. This, the first edition, includes stories from 1976 through 2011. As well as a... More > volume's worth of fifteen new stories, Complete Stories includes all the tales from The 57th Franz Kafka, Transreal, Gnarl!, and Mad Professor. As well as Rucker's solo stories, we have collaborations with Bruce Sterling, Marc Laidlaw, Paul Di Filippo, John Shirley, Terry Bisson, and Eileen Gunn.
Published by Transreal Books, Los Gatos, California.< Less
Billly's Picture Book contains Terry Bisson's collection of thirteen off-kilter tales about an eager lad named Billy---"Billy and the Spacemen," "Billy and the Ants," "Billy... More > and the Talking Plant," and more. The tales are like Zen parables, with an odd, rollicking humor. Rounded out by the artist Rudy Rucker's surreal painted illustrations, Billy's Picture Book is the book your inner child needs.< Less
Billly's Picture Book contains Terry Bisson's collection of thirteen off-kilter tales about an eager lad named Billy---"Billy and the Spacemen," "Billy and the Ants," "Billy... More > and the Talking Plant," and more. The tales are like Zen parables, with an odd, rollicking humor. Rounded out by the artist Rudy Rucker's surreal painted illustrations, Billy's Picture Book is the book your inner child needs.< Less
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