5 Novels by Rudy Rucker
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Overview: Rudolf von Bitter Rucker is an American mathematician, computer scientist, science fiction author, and one of the founders of the cyberpunk genre. He is best known for his Ware Tetralogy, the first two of which won Philip K. Dick awards. Presently, Rudy Rucker edits the science fiction webzine Flurb.
Genre: Sci-Fi/Fantasy
As Above, So Below: A Novel of Peter Bruegel
Peter Bruegel’s paintings—a peasant wedding in a barn, hunters in the snow, a rollicking street festival, and many others—have long defined our idea of everyday life in sixteenth- century Europe. They are classic icons of a time and place in much the same way as Norman Rockwell’s depictions of twentieth-century America. We know relatively little about Bruegel, but after years of research, novelist Rudy Rucker has built upon the what is known and has created for us the life and world of a true master who never got old.
In sixteen chapters, each headed by a reproduction of one of the famous works, Rucker brings Bruegel’s painter’s progress and his colorful world to vibrant life, doing for Bruegel what the best-selling Girl with a Pearl Earring did for Vermeer. We follow the artist from the winding streets of Antwerp and Brussels to the glowing skies and decaying monuments of Rome and back. He and his friends, the cartographer Ortelius and Williblad Cheroo, an American Indian, are as vivid on the page as the multifarious denizens of Bruegel’s unforgettable canvases.
Here is a world of conflict, change, and discovery, a world where Carnival battles Lent every day, preserved for us in paint by the engaging genius you will meet in the pages of As Above So Below.
Good Night, Moon
Carlo Morse and Jimmy Ganzer pioneered dream-fabbing, but these days people only want to close their eyes to trashy stuff — not the mention the kids and their fancy imported tech. It’s a good thing Schwartz’s Deli is still the same.
Hollow Earth
In 1836, Mason Algiers Reynolds leaves his family’s Virginia farm with his father’s slave, a dog, and a mule. Branded a murderer, he finds sanctuary with his hero, Edgar Allan Poe, and together they embark on an expedition to the South Pole. It is there where strange people, and stranger creatures abound, that their bizarre adventures truly begin.
Where the Lost Things Are
Thanks to "bluegene", life is long. But out Route 42 near Goshen, it’s also kind of dull. Just the thing to encourage an expedition into the only actual other universe, the place where…but that would be telling.
Mad Professor: The Uncollected Short Stories of Rudy Rucker
At the untamed frontiers of intelligence, consciousness, matter, and reality lies Rudy Rucker’s The Mad Professor, a collection of twelve mind-bending science fiction stories that probe the outer limits of possibility. Rucker, an accomplished computer scientist and mathematician with numerous science books and novels to his credit, brings his deep and varied knowledge of the mind, mathematics, and the ever-weird and wondrous workings of the physical universe to the stories collected here. In Chu and the Nants we read of a bizarre future following a Verge Singularity, in which hyperintelligent computers have taken over the solar system. Panpsychism Proved breaks down the boundaries between mind and matter, exploring the notion that "every object has a mind." And Six Thought Experiments Concerning the Nature of Computation is an exhilarating collection of mini-stories taking us to the outrageous extremes of theoretical speculation. In The Mad Professor, Rucker deploys the full range of his writing talent and scientific knowledge to take us on a wild romp through the known, the unknown, and the awesomely peculiar.
Includes:
2+2=5 (Written with Terry Bisson)
Elves of the Subdimensions (Written with Paul Di Filippo)
Panpsychism Proved
MS undFo in a Minidrive
The Men in the Back Room at the Country Club
Guadalupe and Hieronymus Bosch
Six Thought Experiments Concerning the Nature of Computation
Jenna and Me (Written with Rudy Rucker Jr.)
The Use of the Ellipse the Catalog the Meter & the Vibrating Plane
Junk DNA (Written with Bruce Sterling)
Pockets (Written with John Shirley)
Cobb Wakes Up
Visions of the Metanovel
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