Rudy Rucker

Rudolf von Bitter Rucker (/ˈrʌkər/; born March 22, 1946) is an American mathematician,^[1] computer scientist, science fiction author,^[2] and one of the founders of the cyberpunk literary movement. The author of both fiction and non-fiction, he is best known for the novels in the Ware Tetralogy, the first two of which (Software and Wetware) both won Philip K. Dick Awards. He edited the science fiction webzine Flurb until its closure in 2014.

Rudy Rucker
Rucker in 2004
Born	Rudolf von Bitter Rucker (1946-03-22) March 22, 1946 (age 78) Louisville, Kentucky, U.S.
Nationality	American
Education	St. Xavier High School Swarthmore College (BA) Rutgers University (MS, PhD)
Occupation	Author
Known for	Ware Tetralogy
Spouse	Sylvia Rucker ​ ​ (m. 1967; died 2023)​
Relatives	G. W. F. Hegel (four generations removed)
Website	Rudy Rucker

Early life

Rucker was born and raised in Louisville, Kentucky, son of Embry Cobb Rucker Sr (October 1, 1914 - August 1, 1994), who ran a small furniture-manufacture company and later became an Episcopal priest and community activist, and Marianne (née von Bitter).^[3] The Rucker family were of Huguenot descent.^[4] Through his mother, he is a great-great-great-grandson of Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel.^[5][6][7]

Rucker attended St. Xavier High School before earning a BA in mathematics from Swarthmore College (1967) and MS (1969) and PhD (1973) degrees in mathematics from Rutgers University.^[8]

Career

Rucker taught mathematics at the State University of New York at Geneseo from 1972 to 1978. Although he was liked by his students and "published a book [Geometry, Relativity and the Fourth Dimension] and several papers," several colleagues took umbrage at his long hair and convivial relationships with English and philosophy professors amid looming budget shortfalls; as a result, he failed to attain tenure in the "dysfunctional" department.^[9]

Thanks to a grant from the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, Rucker taught at the Ruprecht Karl University of Heidelberg from 1978 to 1980. He then taught at Randolph-Macon Women's College in Lynchburg, Virginia from 1980 to 1982, before trying his hand as a full-time author for four years.

Inspired by an interview with Stephen Wolfram,^[10] Rucker became a computer science professor at San José State University in 1986, from which he retired as professor emeritus in 2004.^[11][12]

From 1988 to 1992 he was hired by John Walker of Autodesk as a programmer of cellular automata, which inspired his book The Hacker and the Ants.

A mathematician with philosophical interests, he has written The Fourth Dimension and Infinity and the Mind. Princeton University Press published new editions of Infinity and the Mind in 1995 and in 2005, both with new prefaces; the first edition is cited with fair frequency in academic literature.^{[citation needed]}

As his "own alternative to cyberpunk," Rucker developed a writing style he terms transrealism. Transrealism, as outlined in his 1983 essay The Transrealist Manifesto, is science fiction based on the author's own life and immediate perceptions, mixed with fantastic elements that symbolize psychological change. Many of Rucker's novels and short stories apply these ideas. One example of Rucker's transreal works is Saucer Wisdom, a novel in which the main character is abducted by aliens. Rucker and his publisher marketed the book, tongue in cheek, as non-fiction.^{[citation needed]}

His earliest transreal novel, White Light, was written during his time at Heidelberg. This transreal novel is based on his experiences at SUNY Geneseo.

Rucker often uses his novels to explore scientific or mathematical ideas; White Light^[13] examines the concept of infinity, while the Ware Tetralogy (written from 1982 through 2000) is in part an explanation of the use of natural selection to develop software (a subject also developed in his The Hacker and the Ants, written in 1994). His novels also put forward a mystical philosophy that Rucker has summarized in an essay titled, with only a bit of irony, "The Central Teachings of Mysticism" (included in Seek!, 1999).^[14]

His non-fiction book, The Lifebox, the Seashell, and the Soul: What Gnarly Computation Taught Me About Ultimate Reality, the Meaning Of Life, and How To Be Happy summarizes the various philosophies he's believed over the years and ends with the tentative conclusion that we might profitably view the world as made of computations, with the final remark, "perhaps this universe is perfect."^[15]

Personal life

Rucker was the roommate of Kenneth Turan during his freshman year at Swarthmore College.^[16] In 1967, Rucker married Sylvia Bogsch Rucker (1943–2023).^[17][18] Together they have three children.^[19] On July 1, 2008, Rucker suffered a cerebral hemorrhage. Thinking he might not be around much longer, this prompted him to write Nested Scrolls, his autobiography.^[20]

Rucker resided in Highland Park, New Jersey during his graduate studies at Rutgers University.^[21]

Bibliography

Novels

The Ware Tetralogy^[22]

• Software (1982)
• Wetware (1988)
• Freeware (1997)
• Realware (2000)

Transreal Trilogy^{[23][Notes 1]}

• The Secret of Life (1985)
• White Light (1980)
• Saucer Wisdom (1999) novel marketed as non-fiction

Transreal novels^[24]

• Spacetime Donuts (1981)
• The Sex Sphere (1983)
• Master of Space and Time (1984)
• The Hollow Earth (1990)
• The Hacker and the Ants (1994) (Revised 'Version 2.0' 2003)
• Spaceland (2002)
• Frek and the Elixir (2004)
• Mathematicians in Love (2006)
• Jim and the Flims (2011)^[25]
• The Big Aha (2013)
• All the Visions (1991), memoir/novel

Other novels

• As Above, So Below: A Novel of Peter Bruegel (2002)
• Postsingular (2007)
• Hylozoic (sequel to Postsingular, May 2009)^[26]
• Turing and Burroughs (2012)^[27]
• Return to the Hollow Earth (2018)
• Million Mile Road Trip (2019)^[28]
• Juicy Ghosts (2021)

Short fiction

Collections

• The Fifty-Seventh Franz Kafka (1983)
• Transreal!, includes poetry and non-fiction essays (1991)
• Gnarl! (2000), complete short stories
• Mad Professor (2006)
• Surfing the Gnarl (2012), includes an essay and interview with the author
• Complete Stories (2012)^[29]
• Transreal Cyberpunk, with Bruce Sterling (2016)

Stories (by date of composition)

Written	Title	Published	First published	Notes
1976 (Spring)	Jumpin' Jack Flash	1983-01	The 57th Franz Kafka, Ace Books, January 1983[30]
1977	Enlightenment Rabies	1987-11	New Pathways, November 1987[31]
1979 (Spring)	Schrödinger's Cat	1981-03-30	Analog Science Fiction/Science Fact, March 30, 1981[32]
1979 (Summer)	Sufferin' Succotash	1983-01	The 57th Franz Kafka, Ace Books, January 1983[33]
1979 (Fall)	A New Golden Age	1981 (Summer)	The Randolph-Macon Woman's College Alumnae Bulletin, Summer 1981[34]
1979 (Fall)	Faraway Eyes	1980-09	Analog Science Fiction/Science Fact, September 1980[35]
1980 (Spring)	The 57th Franz Kafka	1982	The Little Magazine, 1982[36]
1980 (Spring)	The Indian Rope Trick Explained	1983-01	The 57th Franz Kafka, Ace Books, January 1983[37]
1980 (Spring)	A New Experiment With Time	1982 (Spring)	Sphinx, Spring 1982[38]
1980 (Spring)	The Man Who Ate Himself	1982-12	The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, December 1982[39]
1980 (Summer)	Tales of Houdini	1981-09	Elsewhere, Ace Books, September 1981[40]
1980 (Fall)	The Facts of Life	1983-12	The 57th Franz Kafka, Ace Books, January 1983[41]
1981 (Spring)	Buzz	1981-12	New Blood, December 1981[42]
1981 (Spring)	The Last Einstein-Rosen Bridge	1983-01	The 57th Franz Kafka, Ace Books, January 1983[43]
1981 (Summer)	Pac-Man	1982-06	Asimov's Science Fiction, June 1982[44]	Originally published as "Peg-Man".
1981 (Fall)	Pi in the Sky	1983-01	The 57th Franz Kafka, Ace Books, January 1983[45]
1981 (Summer)	Wishloop	1988-12	San Jose State University Department of Mathematics and Computer Science Newsletter, December 1988
1982 (Spring)	Inertia	1983-01	The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, January 1983[46]
1982 (Spring)	Bringing in the Sheaves	1987-01	Asimov's Science Fiction, January 1987[47]	Slightly altered third chapter of Twinks (an unfinished science fiction novel that the author describes as "a punk post-WWIII book with radiation mutants").[48]
1982 (Spring)	The Jack Kerouac Disembodied School of Poetics	1982-07	New Blood, July 1982[49]
1982 (Summer)	Message Found in a Copy of Flatland	1983-01	The 57th Franz Kafka, Ace Books, January 1983[50]
1982-11	Plastic Letters	1987	Live From the Stagger Café, Summer 1987[51]
1983	Monument to the Third International	1984-12	The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, December 1984[52]
1984 (Fall)	Rapture in Space	1989	Semiotext[e] SF, Autonomedia, 1989[53]
1985	Storming the Cosmos	1985-12	Asimov's Science Fiction, Mid-December 1985[54]	Written with Bruce Sterling.
1985	In Frozen Time	1986-08	Afterlives, Vintage Books, August 1986[55]
1985	Soft Death	1986-09	The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, September 1986[56]
1986 (Summer)	Inside Out	1987	Synergy, Volume 1, HBJ Books, 1987[57]
1986-1987	Instability	1988-09	The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, September 1988[58]	Written with Paul Di Filippo.
1987 (Spring)	The Man Who Was a Cosmic String	1987-11	The Universe, November 1987[59]
1987	Probability Pipeline	1988	Synergy, Volume 2, HBJ Books, 1988[60]	Written with Marc Laidlaw.
1987	As Above, So Below	1989-11	The Microverse, Bantam Books, November 1989[61]
1988	Chaos Surfari	1989-03	Interzone, March/April 1989[62]	Written with Marc Laidlaw.
1992	Big Jelly	1994-11	Asimov's Science Fiction, November 1994[63]	Written with Bruce Sterling.
1993	Easy As Pie	1993-11	Christmas Forever, Tor Books, November 1993[64]
1995	The Andy Warhol Sandcandle	2000-04	Gnarl!, Four Walls Eight Windows, April 2000[65]	Written with Marc Laidlaw.
1996-01	Cobb Wakes Up	2006-03	Other, March 2006[66]
1999	The Square Root of Pythagoras	1999-11	Science Fiction Age, November 1999[67]	Written with Paul Di Filippo.
2000-07-18	Pockets	2001-12	Redshift, Roc Books, December 2001[68]	Written with John Shirley.
2000-08-25 - 2001-03-05	A Dream of Flatland	2002-02-18	Infinite Matrix, February 18, 2002[69][70]	Fifth chapter of Spaceland.
2001-12-29	Junk DNA	2003-01	Asimov's Science Fiction, January 2003[71]	Written with Bruce Sterling.
2002-01-22	The Use of the Ellipse the Catalog the Meter & the Vibrating Plane	2002	Horror Garage, 2002[72]
2002-06-15	Jenna and Me	2003-02-11	Infinite Matrix, February 11, 2003[73]	Written with Rudy Rucker Jr.
2003 (Fall)	Six Thought Experiments Concerning the Nature of Computation	2005-10	The Lifebox, the Seashell, and the Soul, Thunder's Mouth Press, October 2005[74]	The story appears divided in 6 parts, each being a short-short story to introduce each of the six chapters in The Lifebox, the Seashell, and the Soul.
2004-04-09	Guadalupe and Hieronymus Bosch	2005-10	Interzone, October 2005[75]
2004-06-13	MS Found in a Minidrive	2006-05	Poe's Lighthouse, Cemetery Dance Publications, May 2006[76]
2004-05-06	The Men in the Back Room at the Country Club	2005-12-30	Infinite Matrix, December 30, 2005[77]
2005-09-19	Chu and the Nants	2006-06	Asimov's Science Fiction, June 2006[78]	Second chapter of Postsingular.
2005-12-06	Panpsychism Proved	2006-01-26	Nature, January 26, 2006[79][80]
2005-12-06	Postsingular	2006-09	Asimov's Science Fiction, June 2006[81]	Third and fourth chapters of Postsingular.
2006-03-25	Elves of the Subdimensions	2006-08-29	Flurb, Fall 2006[82]	Written with Paul Di Filippo.
2006-05-01	2+2=5	2006-08	Interzone, August 2006[83]	Written with Terry Bisson.
2006-05-22	Visions of the Metanovel	2007	Mad Professor, Thunder's Mouth Press, 2007[84]
2006 (Fall)	The Imitation Game	2008-04	Interzone, April 2008[85]	First chapter of Turing and Burroughs.
2006-12	The Third Bomb	2006-12-19	Flurb, Winter 2006[86]
2007-03	Hormiga Canyon	2007-08	Asimov's Science Fiction, August 2007[87]	Written with Bruce Sterling.
2007-05-25	Postsingular Outtakes	2007-04-23	Flurb, Spring–Summer 2007[88]	Outtakes drawn from the author's working notes for Postsingular.[89]
2007-05	The Perfect Wave	2008-01	Asimov's Science Fiction, January 2008[90]	Written with Marc Laidlaw.
2007-09-11	Hieronymus Bosch's Apprentice	2007-09-19	Flurb, Fall–Winter 2007[91]	Fifth chapter of Hylozoic.
2008-03	Tangier Routines	2008-03-31	Flurb, Spring–Summer 2008[92]
2008-05	Message Found In A Gravity Wave	2008-08	Nature Physics, August 2008[93][94]
2008-07	Qlone	2008-09-16	Flurb, Fall–Winter 2008[95]
2008-10	Colliding Branes	2009-02	Asimov's Science Fiction, February 2009[96]	Written with Bruce Sterling.
2008-12	Jack and the Aktuals, or, Physical Applications of Transfinite Set Theory	2008-10-09	Tor.com, October 9, 2009[97]
2009-01	All Hangy	2009-03-03	Flurb, Spring–Summer 2009[98]	Written with John Shirley.
2009-03	To See Infinity Bare	2011-03	Postscripts, March 2011[99]	Written with Paul Di Filippo.
2009-08	Bad Ideas	2009-09-08	Flurb, Fall–Winter 2009[100]
2009-11-03	Val and Me	2010-03-08	Flurb, Spring–Summer 2010[101]	First, second and third chapter of Jim and the Flims.
2010-06	Good Night, Moon	2010-10-13	Tor.com, October 13, 2010[102]	Written with Bruce Sterling.
2010-07	The Fnoor Hen	2011-04	Asimov's Science Fiction, April/May 2011[103]
2010-08-10	The Skug	2010-08-31	Flurb, Fall–Winter 2010[104]	Second chapter of Turing & Burroughs.
2010-09	Fjaerland	2011-09-06	Flurb, Fall–Winter 2011[105]	Written with Paul DiFilippo.
2010-09	Hive Mind Man	2012-02	Asimov's Science Fiction, February 2012[106]	Written with Eileen Gunn.
2011-01-01	Dispatches from Interzone	2011-03-22	Flurb, Spring–Summer 2011[107]	Eighth chapter of Turing & Burroughs.
2011-03	My Office Mate	2011-07	Communications of the ACM, July 2011[108]
2011-12	Loco	2012-06-20	Tor.com, June 20, 2012[109]	Written with Bruce Sterling.
2012-02-15	Jane and the Roadspider	2012-03-23	Flurb, Spring 2012[110]	Second chapter of The Big Aha.
2012-07	I Arise Again	2013-01	Communications of the ACM, January 2013[111]	Originally published as "Share My Enlightenment" and it slightly differs from the version that appears in the Complete Stories under the title "I Arise Again".
2012-10	Yubba Vines	2013-07	Asimov's Science Fiction, July 2013[112]	Written with Paul Di Filippo.
2012-10	Quantum Telepathy	2014-09	Hieroglyph, William Morrow, September 2014[113]	First and third chapters of The Big Aha.
2013-03	Apricot Lane	2013-05	An Aura of Familiarity, Institute for the Future, May 2013[114][115]
2014-01	Where the Lost Things Are	2014-11-05	Tor.com, November 5, 2014[116]	Written with Terry Bisson.
2014-02	Laser Shades	2014-11	The Superlative Light, Daylight Books, November 2014
2014-05	Attack of the Giant Ants	2014-12-09	Terraform, December 2014[117]
2014-06 – 2014-12	Totem Poles	2016-08-10	Tor.com, August 10, 2016[118]	Written with Bruce Sterling.
2014-08	Watergirl	2015-01	Asimov's Science Fiction, January 2015[119]	Written with Marc Laidlaw.
2014-12	The Knobby Giraffe	2016-04	Lightspeed, April 2016[120]
2015-03 – 2015-08	Kraken and Sage	2016-02	Transreal Cyberpunk, Transreal Books, February 2016[121]	Written with Bruce Sterling.
2015-06	Like a Sea Cucumber	2015-06-30	Terraform, June 2015[122]
2016-07	Emojis	2018-03	Asimov's Science Fiction, March 2018[123]
2016-08 – 2016-12	@lantis	2017-07	Asimov's Science Fiction, July/August 2017[124]	Written with Marc Laidlaw.
2016-12	Fat Stream	2017-08-21	Mondo2000.com, August 21, 2017[125]
2017-04	In The Lost City of Leng	2018-01	Asimov's Science Fiction, January 2018[126]	Written with Paul Di Filippo. According to the Rudy Rucker's notes from February 15, 2017, the working title was "The Plateau of Leng".[127]
2018-11 – 2019-01	Surfers at the End of Time	2019-11	Asimov's Science Fiction, November/December 2019[128]	Written with Marc Laidlaw.
2019-01 – 2019-06	Juicy Ghost	2019-06-24	Rudy's Blog, June 24, 2019[129]	Third chapter of Juicy Ghosts. Reprinted in Big Echo, October 2019.[130] Rewritten in September 2020 and published in the author's blog.[131]
	The Mean Carrot	2020-03	Big Echo, March 2020[132]	First chapter of Juicy Ghosts.
2019-08 – 2020-09	Everything Is Everything	2020-10	Big Echo, October 2020[133]
	Mary Mary	2021-03	Asimov's Science Fiction, March/April 2021[134]	Fourth chapter of Juicy Ghosts. According to the author's blog post, an early title was "Mary Falls".[135]
2019-11 – 2020-06	Fibonacci's Humors	2021-07	Asimov's Science Fiction, July/August 2021[136]	Written with Bruce Sterling.
	Petroglyph Man	2015-07	Rucker, Rudy (July 2015). "Petroglyph Man". Asimov's Science Fiction. 39 (7): 60–68.

Non-fiction

• Geometry, Relativity and the Fourth Dimension (1977)
• Infinity and the Mind (1982)
• The Fourth Dimension: Toward a Geometry of Higher Reality (1984)
• Mind Tools (1987)
• Seek! (1999), collected essays
• Software Engineering and Computer Games (2002), textbook
• The Lifebox, the Seashell, and the Soul: What Gnarly Computation Taught Me About Ultimate Reality, the Meaning of Life, and How to Be Happy (Thunder's Mouth Press, 2005)
• Nested Scrolls - autobiography (2011)^[137]
• Collected Essays (2012)^[138]
• How to Make an Ebook (2012)
• Better Worlds (2013), art book of Rucker's paintings
• Journals 1990–2014 (2015)

As editor

• Speculations on the Fourth Dimension: Selected Writings of Charles H. Hinton, Dover (1980), ISBN 0-486-23916-0
• Mathenauts: Tales of Mathematical Wonder, Arbor House (1987)^[139]
• Semiotext(e) SF, Autonomedia (1989) ^[140]

Critical studies and reviews of Rucker's work

The big aha

• Spinrad, Norman (October–November 2014). "Space—the permanent frontier". On Books. Asimov's Science Fiction. 38 (10–11): 183–191.

Turing and Burroughs

• Spinrad, Norman (October–November 2013). "Genre versus literature". On Books. Asimov's Science Fiction. 37 (10–11): 182–191.

Filmography

• As actor-speaker in Manual of Evasion LX94, a 1994 film by Edgar Pêra

Explanatory notes

1. Arranged in the order of the events they describe.

References

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2. Jonas, Gerald (September 12, 2004). "Interstellar Serial Killer". The New York Times.
3. "OBITUARIES - The Washington Post". The Washington Post.
4. http://www.rudyrucker.com/pdf/autobiography2004.pdf ^{[bare URL PDF]}
5. The Sound of Wonder: Interviews from "The Science Fiction Radio Show" vol. 1, Daryl Lane et al, Oryx Press, 1985, p. 169
6. Other Worlds: Spirituality and the Search for Invisible Dimensions, Christopher G. White, Harvard University Press, 2018, p. 290
7. "Family tree of Rucker's mother's brother, Rudolf von Bitter" (PDF). rudyrucker.com.
8. "Rudy Rucker". NNDB.
9. Rucker, Rudy (December 11, 2012). Nested Scrolls: The Autobiography of Rudolf Von Bitter Rucker. Macmillan. ISBN 9780765327536 – via Google Books.
10. "Rudy Rucker interviews Stephen Wolfram". Retrieved April 8, 2009.
11. Rucker, Rudy (January 20, 2008). "Everything Is Alive". CiteSeerX 10.1.1.92.2841. {{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
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13. Itzkoff, Dave (December 16, 2007). "Across the Universe: Planetary Politics". The New York Times.
14. "The Central Teachings of Mysticism". October 6, 2012.
15. Rucker, Rudy (2005). The Lifebox, the Seashell, and the Soul. New York, NY: Thunder's Mouth Press. p. 468. ISBN 978-1-56025-898-8.
16. Rucker, Rudy (December 11, 2012). Nested Scrolls: The Autobiography of Rudolf von Bitter Rucker. New York, NY. ISBN 978-0765327536.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
17. Rucker, Rudy (December 11, 2012). Nested Scrolls: The Autobiography of Rudolf von Bitter Rucker. New York, NY. p. 105. ISBN 978-0765327536.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
18. Sylvia Rucker obituary.
19. Rucker, Rudy (2015). "Photos for Rudy Rucker, JOURNALS 1990-2014". Rudy Rucker. Retrieved June 14, 2015.
20. Rucker, Rudy (December 11, 2012). Nested Scrolls: The Autobiography of Rudolf von Bitter Rucker. New York, NY. p. 3. ISBN 978-0765327536.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
21. Rucker, Rudy van Bitter. All the visions, p. 102. Ocean View Books, 1991. ISBN 9780938075097. Accessed February 28, 2018. "Audrey and I were newlyweds there in Highland Park, and we used to watch The Newlywed Game on TV every week."
22. "Wares". Rudyrucker.com.
23. "Transreal Trilogy". Retrieved June 22, 2021.
24. Rucker, Rudy (September 2013). "Timeline for My Transreal Novels". Rudy's Blog. Retrieved June 22, 2021.
25. Jim and the Flims
26. Hylozoic
27. Turing and Burroughs
28. https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?708516
29. Complete Stories
30. Rucker, Rudy (January 1983). The 57th Franz Kafka. Ace Books. p. 33. ISBN 0-441-23516-6.
31. Rucker, Rudy (November 1987). "Enlightenment Rabies". New Pathways (9): 13.
32. Rucker, Rudy (March 30, 1981). "Schrödinger's Cat". Analog Science Fiction/Science Fact. 101 (4): 70.
33. Rucker, Rudy (January 1983). The 57th Franz Kafka. Ace Books. p. 53. ISBN 0-441-23516-6.
34. Rucker, Rudy (1981). "A New Golden Age". The Randolph-Macon Woman's College Alumnae Bulletin.
35. Rucker, Rudy (September 1980). "Faraway Eyes". Analog Science Fiction/Science Fact. 100 (9): 110.
36. Rucker, Rudy (1982). "The 57th Franz Kafka". The Little Magazine. 13 (3 & 4).
37. Rucker, Rudy (January 1983). The 57th Franz Kafka. Ace Books. p. 88. ISBN 0-441-23516-6.
38. Rucker, Rudy (1982). "A New Experiment With Time". Sphinx (16).
39. Rucker, Rudy (December 1982). "The Man Who Ate Himself". The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction. 63 (6): 35–45.
40. Windling, Terri; Arnold, Mark Alan, eds. (September 1981). Elsewhere. Ace Books. pp. 247–253. ISBN 0-441-20403-1.
41. Rucker, Rudy (January 1983). The 57th Franz Kafka. Ace Books. p. 122. ISBN 0-441-23516-6.
42. Rucker, Rudy (December 1981). "Buzz". New Blood.
43. Rucker, Rudy (January 1983). The 57th Franz Kafka. Ace Books. p. 156. ISBN 0-441-23516-6.
44. Rucker, Rudy (June 1982). "Peg-Man". Asimov's Science Fiction. 6 (6): 84–93.
45. Rucker, Rudy (January 1983). The 57th Franz Kafka. Ace Books. p. 174. ISBN 0-441-23516-6.
46. Rucker, Rudy (January 1983). "Inertia". The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction. 64 (1): 66.
47. Rucker, Rudy (January 1987). "Bringing in the Sheaves". Asimov's Science Fiction. 11 (1): 103–109.
48. Rucker, Rudy (April 2000). Gnarl!. Four Walls Eight Windows. p. 556. ISBN 1-56858-159-9.
49. Rucker, Rudy (July 1982). "The Jack Kerouac Disembodied School of Poetics". New Blood.
50. Rucker, Rudy (January 1983). The 57th Franz Kafka. Ace Books. p. 224. ISBN 0-441-23516-6.
51. Rucker, Rudy (1987). "Plastic Letters". Live from the Stagger Café (5).
52. Rucker, Rudy (December 1984). "Monument to the Third International". The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction. 67 (6): 8.
53. Rucker, Rudy; Wilson, Peter Lamborn; Wilson, Robert Anton, eds. (1989). Semiotext[e] SF. Autonomedia. p. 91. ISBN 0-936756-43-8.
54. Rucker, Rudy; Sterling, Bruce (December 1985). "Storming the Cosmos". Asimov's Science Fiction. 9 (13): 144–182.
55. Sargent, Pamela; Watson, Ian, eds. (August 1986). Afterlives. Vintage Books. pp. 335–344. ISBN 0-394-72986-2.
56. Rucker, Rudy (September 1986). "Soft Death". The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction. 71 (3): 42.
57. Zebrowski, George, ed. (1987). Synergy, Volume 1. HBJ Books. p. 183. ISBN 0-15-687700-7.
58. Rucker, Rudy (September 1988). "Instability". The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction. 75 (3): 14.
59. Preiss, Byron; Fraknoi, Andrew, eds. (November 1987). The Universe. Bantam Books. pp. 241–246. ISBN 0-553-05227-6.
60. Zebrowski, George, ed. (1988). Synergy, Volume 2. HBJ Books. pp. 107–130. ISBN 0-15-687701-5.
61. Preiss, Byron; Alschuler, William R., eds. (November 1989). The Microverse. Bantam Books. pp. 334–346. ISBN 0-553-05705-7.
62. Rucker, Rudy; Laidlaw, Marc (March–April 1989). "Chaos Surfari". Interzone (28): 48–57.
63. Rucker, Rudy; Sterling, Bruce (November 1994). "Big Jelly". Asimov's Science Fiction. 18 (12 & 13): 10–53.
64. Hartwell, David G., ed. (November 1993). Christmas Forever. Tor Books. pp. 241–250. ISBN 0-312-85576-1.
65. Rucker, Rudy (April 2000). Gnarl!. Four Walls Eight Windows. pp. 492–523. ISBN 1-56858-159-9.
66. Rucker, Rudy (March 2006). "Cobb Wakes Up". Other.
67. Rucker, Rudy; Di Filippo, Paul (November 1999). "The Square Root of Pythagoras". Science Fiction Age. 8 (1): 52–59.
68. Sarrantonio, Al, ed. (December 2001). Redshift. Roc Books. pp. 357–359. ISBN 0-451-45859-1.
69. Rucker, Rudy (February 18, 2002). "A Dream of Flatland (Part 1)". The Infinite Matrix. Archived from the original on January 26, 2002. Retrieved August 28, 2021.
70. Rucker, Rudy (February 18, 2002). "A Dream of Flatland (Part 2)". The Infinite Matrix. Archived from the original on February 20, 2002. Retrieved August 28, 2021.
71. Rucker, Rudy; Sterling, Bruce (January 2003). "Junk DNA". Asimov's Science Fiction. 27 (1): 16.
72. Rucker, Rudy (2002). "The Use of the Ellipse the Catalog the Meter & the Vibrating Plane". Horror Garage (5): 24.
73. Rucker, Rudy; Rucker Jr., Rudy (February 11, 2003). "Jenna and Me". The Infinite Matrix. Retrieved July 22, 2021.
74. Rucker, Rudy (October 2005). The Lifebox, the Seashell, and the Soul. Thunder's Mouth Press. pp. 1–3, 77–79, 145–149, 213–216, 311–313, 383–386. ISBN 1-56025-722-9.
75. Rucker, Rudy (October 2005). "Guadalupe and Hieronymus Bosch". Interzone (200): 26.
76. Conlon, Christopher, ed. (May 2006). Poe's Lighthouse. Cemetery Dance Publications. p. 277. ISBN 1-58767-128-X.
77. Rucker, Rudy (December 30, 2005). "The Men in the Back Room at the Country Club". The Infinite Matrix. Retrieved July 20, 2021.
78. Rucker, Rudy (June 2006). "Chu and the Nants". Asimov's Science Fiction. 30 (6): 90–99.
79. Rucker, Rudy (January 26, 2006). "Panpsychism Proved". Nature. 439 (7075): 508. Bibcode:2006Natur.439..508R. doi:10.1038/439508a. S2CID 33335830.
80. Rucker, Rudy (January 26, 2006). "Panpsychism Proved" (PDF). Nature. 439 (7075): 508. Bibcode:2006Natur.439..508R. doi:10.1038/439508a. S2CID 33335830.
81. Rucker, Rudy (September 2006). "Postsingular". Asimov's Science Fiction. 30 (9): 106–131.
82. Rucker, Rudy; Di Filippo, Paul (March 25, 2006). "Elves of the Subdimensions". Flurb (1). Retrieved July 19, 2021.
83. Rucker, Rudy; Bisson, Terry (August 2006). "2+2=5". Interzone (205): 28.
84. Rucker, Rudy (2007). Mad Professor. Thunder's Mouth Press. pp. 275–284. ISBN 978-1-56025-974-9.
85. Rucker, Rudy (April 2008). "The Imitation Game". Interzone (215): 48.
86. Rucker, Rudy (December 19, 2006). "The Third Bomb". Flurb (2). Retrieved July 18, 2021.
87. Rucker, Rudy; Sterling, Bruce (August 2007). "Hormiga Canyon". Asimov's Science Fiction. 31 (8): 16–43.
88. Rucker, Rudy (April 23, 2007). "Postsingular Outtakes". Flurb (3). Retrieved August 28, 2021.
89. Rucker, Rudy (May 25, 2007). "Postsingular Writing Notes" (PDF).
90. Rucker, Rudy; Laidlaw, Marc (January 2008). "The Perfect Wave". Asimov's Science Fiction. 32 (1): 18–35.
91. Rucker, Rudy (September 19, 2007). "Hieronymus Bosch's Apprentice". Flurb (4). Retrieved August 26, 2021.
92. Rucker, Rudy (August 31, 2008). "Tangier Routines". Flurb (5). Retrieved July 17, 2021.
93. Rucker, Rudy (August 2008). "Message Found In A Gravity Wave". Nature Physics. 4 (8): 664. Bibcode:2008NatPh...4..664R. doi:10.1038/nphys1049.
94. Rucker, Rudy (August 2008). "Message Found In A Gravity Wave" (PDF). Nature Physics. 4 (8): 664. Bibcode:2008NatPh...4..664R. doi:10.1038/nphys1049.
95. Rucker, Rudy (September 16, 2008). "Qlone". Flurb (6). Retrieved July 17, 2021.
96. Rucker, Rudy; Sterling, Bruce (February 2009). "Colliding Branes". Asimov's Science Fiction. 33 (2): 10–22.
97. Rucker, Rudy (October 9, 2009). "Jack and the Aktuals, or, Physical Applications of Transfinite Set Theory". Tor.com. Retrieved July 17, 2021.
98. Rucker, Rudy; Shirley, John (March 3, 2009). "All Hangy". Flurb (7). Retrieved July 17, 2021.
99. Rucker, Rudy; Di Filippo, Paul (March 2011). "To See Infinity Bare". Postscripts (24/25): 29.
100. Rucker, Rudy (September 8, 2009). "Bad Ideas". Flurb (8). Retrieved July 16, 2021.
101. Rucker, Rudy (March 8, 2010). "Val and Me". Flurb (9). Retrieved August 26, 2021.
102. Rucker, Rudy; Sterling, Bruce (October 13, 2010). "Good Night, Moon". Tor.com. Retrieved July 14, 2021.
103. Rucker, Rudy (April–May 2011). "The Fnoor Hen". Asimov's Science Fiction. 35 (4 & 5): 94–103.
104. Rucker, Rudy (August 31, 2010). "The Skug". Flurb (10). Retrieved August 26, 2021.
105. Rucker, Rudy; DiPilippo, Paul (September 6, 2011). "Fjaerland". Flurb (12). Retrieved July 13, 2021.
106. Rucker, Rudy; Gunn, Eileen (February 2012). "Hive Mind Man". Asimov's Science Fiction. 36 (2): 10–24.
107. Rucker, Rudy (March 22, 2011). "Dispatches from Interzone". Flurb (11). Retrieved August 26, 2021.
108. Rucker, Rudy (July 2011). "My Office Mate". Communications of the ACM. 54 (7): 120–ff. doi:10.1145/1965724.1965750. S2CID 3134702.
109. Rucker, Rudy; Sterling, Bruce (June 20, 2012). "Loco". Tor.com. Retrieved June 25, 2021.
110. Rucker, Rudy (March 23, 2012). "Jane and the Roadspider". Flurb (13). Retrieved August 26, 2021.
111. Rucker, Rudy (January 2013). "Share My Enlightenment". Communications of the ACM. 56 (1): 136–ff. doi:10.1145/2398356.2398382. S2CID 29688349. Retrieved July 2, 2021.
112. Rucker, Rudy; Di Filippo, Paul (July 2013). "Yubba Vines". Asimov's Science Fiction. 37 (7): 43–57.
113. Finn, Ed; Cramer, Kathryn, eds. (September 2014). Hieroglyph. William Morrow. pp. 436–465. ISBN 978-0-06-220469-1.
114. Rucker, Rudy (May 2013). "Apricot Lane". IFTF. Retrieved June 30, 2021.
115. Rucker, Rudy (May 2013). "Apricot Lane" (PDF). An Aura of Familiarity: 15–29.
116. Rucker, Rudy; Bisson, Terry (November 5, 2014). "Where the Lost Things Are". Tor.com. Retrieved July 1, 2021.
117. Rucker, Rudy (December 9, 2014). "Attack of the Giant Ants". Terraform. Retrieved June 25, 2021.
118. Rucker, Rudy; Sterling, Bruce (August 10, 2016). "Totem Poles". Tor.com. Retrieved June 29, 2021.
119. Rucker, Rudy; Laidlaw, Marc (January 2015). "Watergirl". Asimov's Science Fiction. 39 (1): 22–40.
120. Rucker, Rudy (April 2016). "The Knobby Giraffe". Lightspeed (71).
121. Rucker, Rudy; Sterling, Bruce (February 2016). Transreal Cyberpunk. Transreal Books. p. 285. ISBN 978-1-940948-15-7.
122. Rucker, Rudy (June 30, 2015). "Like a Sea Cucumber". Terraform. Retrieved June 25, 2021.
123. Rucker, Rudy (March 2018). "Emojis". Asimov's Science Fiction. 42 (3 & 4): 64.
124. Rucker, Rudy; Laidlaw, Marc (July–August 2017). "@lantis". Asimov's Science Fiction. 41 (7 & 8): 102.
125. Rucker, Rudy (August 21, 2017). "Fat Stream". Mondo2000.com. Retrieved June 25, 2021.
126. Rucker, Rudy; Di Filippo, Paul (January 2018). "In The Lost City of Leng". Asimov's Science Fiction. 42 (1 & 2): 34–67.
127. Rucker, Rudy (December 2017). "Rudy & Paul Di Filippo in Lovecraft's "Lost City of Leng"". Rudy's Blog. Retrieved June 23, 2021.
128. Rucker, Rudy; Laidlaw, Marc (November 2019). "Surfers at the End of Time". Asimov's Science Fiction. 43 (11): 14–45.
129. Rucker, Rudy (June 24, 2019). "Juicy Ghost". Rudy's Blog. Retrieved June 21, 2021.
130. Rucker, Rudy (October 2019). "Juicy Ghost". Big Echo (13). Retrieved June 25, 2021.
131. Rucker, Rudy (September 24, 2020). "Juicy Ghost". Rudy's Blog. Retrieved June 21, 2021.
132. Rucker, Rudy (March 2020). "The Mean Carrot". Big Echo (15). Retrieved June 25, 2021.
133. Rucker, Rudy (October 2020). "Everything Is Everything". Big Echo (17). Retrieved June 25, 2021.
134. Rucker, Rudy (March–April 2021). "Mary Mary". Asimov's Science Fiction. 45 (3 & 4): 112–137.
135. Rucker, Rudy (February 14, 2020). "New Story. Where Does Your Lifebox Live?". Rudy's Blog. Retrieved July 27, 2021.
136. Rucker, Rudy; Sterling, Bruce (July–August 2021). "Fibonacci's Humors". Asimov's Science Fiction. 45 (7 & 8): 130–150.
137. "Nested Scrolls". Rudyrucker.com.
138. Collected Essays
139. "Rudy Rucker". Cs.sjsu.edu.
140. "AK Press". akpress.org.

External links

• Rudy Rucker Portal
• Rudy Rucker Books
• Rudy Rucker at the Internet Speculative Fiction Database
• Kasman, Alex. "Rudy Rucker". MathFiction. College of Charleston. published works of fiction involving mathematics or mathematicians