New Releases by Rudy Rucker

Da otto anni il presidente degli Stati Uniti è Ross Treadle, un uomo pericolosamente incompetente, sostenuto da finanziatori potenti, e altrettanto pericolosi, appartenenti al Top Party e al Citadel Club. A contrastarlo un movimento non ufficiale di opposizione, i freal, capitanati dallo scienziato pazzo Gee Willikers. Telepatia, immortalità e rivoluzione, nel caos delle elezioni presidenziali americane: il romanzo più cyberpunk di Rucker, un''opera fondamentale per i nostri tempi.

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 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. At the Publisher''s request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

«Dotato di cultura enciclopedica, Rucker spazia dal celebre racconto ottocentesco di Edwin Abbott “Flatlandia” a “La storia di Plattner” di H.G. Wells; da opere di misconosciuti matematici otto-novecenteschi agli illustri John Wheeler e Kip Thorne, fino ai romanzi di fantascienza e alle storie di Borges, per chiarire anche al lettore più profano che cosa accadrebbe se lo spazio avesse due sole dimensioni oppure quattro invece di tre, se esseri bi- o quadridimensionali apparissero nel nostro mondo tridimensionale o se, viceversa, uno di noi si facesse una passeggiatina nella quarta dimensione. Simultaneamente Rucker ci spiega la natura dello spazio e quella del tempo e come essi potrebbero mutare nei modi più svariati. Nella sua scorribanda spaziotemporale ce n’è per tutti i gusti, dai buchi neri a Lewis Carroll con il suo “Alice nel paese delle meraviglie”, senza dimenticare una capatina (ma umoristica) nel mondo della parapsicologia e della metafisica». «Le Scienze»

Writing notes for Rudy Ruck''s novel, "Juicy Ghosts." A book-length volume with 25 grayscale illustrations.

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!

A 60s college student learns he’s a saucer alien in this hilariously intelligent tale of adolescent angst and romance from Rudy Rucker. Conrad Bunger is one of those wild guys you think won’t make it to legal drinking age. But, thanks to the strange powers he manifests in times of crisis—he can change his face, shrink to the size of a thumb, fly around the Eiffel tower, and hand out joints to everyone at the student assembly—not even the most ghastly mishaps interrupt his quest for visions, beer, and love. Gradually, Conrad awakens to his true identity as an energy being from outer space. As if he hadn’t suspected it all along. Now, as he faces his true nature, he learns his ordained purpose: to proceed incognito and to reach the ultimate prize—the Secret of Life. Problem is, he’s having too much fun to keep it together. Even with the government out to kill him . . . 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.

“Jim and the Flims is just as quirky and enjoyable as everything else he’s written. Ricker knows how to bring the spark of life to the realm of death.” —Rick Kleffel, The Agony Column Author Rudy Rucker brings his unmistakable style to the afterlife in this mind-blowingly gnarly science fiction surfer novel. A quantum experiment by disaffected bioengineer-turned-mailman Jim Oster has gone wrong, accidentally rupturing the membrane between our world and an afterworld called Flimsy—creating a two-way tunnel that kills his pregnant wife. Jim thinks life couldn’t get worse. Until, that is, he realizes that he’s now facing an invasion of the Flims—subdimensional creatures who resemble blue baboons and flying beets—and that he may be the only one who can do anything about it. Aided by a posse of Santa Cruz surf-punks—one of whom keeps an Egyptian mummy in his basement, and may also be a serial killer—Jim plunges into a mad series of adventures in the afterworld—where he just might be able to find his wife and bring her back to life. . . . 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.

Three teens ride a car across the universe and back. Look out for the flying saucers! "Tipping his hat to Thomas Pynchon, Jack Kerouac, and Douglas Adams, Rucker immerses readers in a fantastical roadtrip adventure that’s a wild ride of unmitigated joy. . . . he ties everything together with internal consistency, playful use of language that keeps his ideas alien yet accessible, and a solid grounding in fourth-dimensional math. This wacky adventure is a geeky reader’s delight."—Publishers Weekly, starred review

"Rucker’s four Ware novels—Software, Wetware , Freeware , and Realware—form an extraordinary cyberweird future history with the heft of an epic fantasy novel and the speed of a quantum processor. Still exuberantly fresh despite their age, they primarily follow two characters (and their descendants): Cobb Anderson, who instigated the first robot revolution and is offered immortality by his grateful “children,” and stoner Sta-Hi Mooney, who (against his impaired better judgment) becomes an important figure in robot-human relations. Over several generations, humans, robots, drugs, and society evolve, but even weird drugs and the wisdom gathered from interstellar signals won’t stop them from making the same old mistakes in new ways. Rucker is both witty and serious as he combines hard science and sociology with unrelentingly sharp observations of all self-replicating beings. This classic series well deserves its omnibus repackaging, particularly suitable for libraries." — Publisher''s Weekly. "Rudy Rucker is one of the modern heroes of science fiction, one of the original cyberpunks. The early cyberpunks only had a few writers who could be meaningfully called punks — writers like John Shirley and Richard Kadrey — but there was only one who could truly be called cyber: Rudy Rucker. Rucker is a mad professor, a mathematician and computer scientist with a serious, scholarly interest in the limits of computation and the physics and mathematics of higher-dimension geometry. But that’s just about the only thing you can describe as ''serious'' when it comes to Rucker. He’s a gonzo wildman, someone for whom ''trippy'' barely scratches the surface. His work is shot through with weird sex, weird drugs, weird brain chemistry, and above all, weird science." — Cory Doctorow

A two-volume steampunk extravaganza. Accompanied by Edgar Allan Poe, a nineteeth-century farm boy travels through the vast interior of the Hollow Earth to present day California.

"Return to the Hollow Earth" is Rucker''s rollicking 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.

Collected together in one ebook: every single one of Rudy Rucker''s science-fiction stories, a trove of gnarl and wonder, dating over more than forty years. This, the updated 2021 edition of Complete Stories, includes stories from 1976 through 2021 Along with Rucker''s solo stories, we have collaborations with Bruce Sterling, Marc Laidlaw, Paul Di Filippo, John Shirley, Terry Bisson, and Eileen Gunn.

Cobb Anderson ha creato i "bopper", robot senzienti che hanno finito per controllare i loro padroni umani. Ormai vecchio e alcolizzato, aspetta solo di morire, mentre i bopper più evoluti minacciano di assorbire quelli meno sofisticati - e, perché no, anche gli umani - in una gigantesca coscienza collettiva. Alcuni bopper, però, non sono troppo entusiasti dell''idea, e scatenano una rivolta robotica sulla Luna (dove vivono i bopper). Nel frattempo, Ralph Numbers, il bopper che il suo creatore aveva pensato come il primo gradino per l''evoluzione di una nuova specie, vuole donare l''immortalità ad Anderson...

"Yo, Jack," said Tonel as they lugged two golf bags apiece towards the men''s locker room. It was sunset, the end of a long Saturday''s caddying, Jack''s last day of work this summer. We are delighted to publish this classic book as part of our extensive Classic Library collection. Many of the books in our collection have been out of print for decades, and therefore have not been accessible to the general public. The aim of our publishing program is to facilitate rapid access to this vast reservoir of literature, and our view is that this is a significant literary work, which deserves to be brought back into print after many decades. The contents of the vast majority of titles in the Classic Library have been scanned from the original works. To ensure a high quality product, each title has been meticulously hand curated by our staff. Our philosophy has been guided by a desire to provide the reader with a book that is as close as possible to ownership of the original work. We hope that you will enjoy this wonderful classic work, and that for you it becomes an enriching experience.

The real world is unbearable to madcap inventor Harry Gerber, so he uses his genius to twist the laws of science and create his own tailor-made universe. Master of Space and Time combines high physics and high jinks, blurring the line between science and magic. From a voyage to a mirror-image world where sluglike parasites make slaves of humanity, to trees and bushes that grow fries and pork chops, to a rain of fish, author Rudy Rucker -- two-time winner of the Philip K. Dick Award -- takes readers on the ultimate joyride. But once the gluons at the core of Harry''s creation run out . . . disaster looms for Harry and his friends.

A hipster math prof''s journey to Abosolute Infinity...and back.

The saucer aliens are here. They''re healing the planet. They''ve got to be stopped. At the Publisher''s request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

Ride the wave with Rudy Rucker---author, programmer, mathematician, professor, cyberpunk, hipster, transrealist, and family man. A writer’s journey. Rucker composed "Journals: 1990-2014" over twenty-five years. A long-running adventure. Entries include: Introspection and philosophizing, sketches of daily life, descriptions of Rucker''s travels, and notes on writing.

Abstieg ins Innere der Erde Im Jahre 1839 muss der fünfzehnjährige Mason Algiers Reynolds die Farm seiner Eltern in Virginia verlassen, weil man ihn für einen Mörder hält. Dabei war der Tod seines Doppelgängers nichts weiter als ein dummer Unfall! Er flüchtet sich nach Richmond zu seinem Helden, dem trinkfreudigen Edgar Allan Poe, der ihm eine Stelle als Druckerlehrling anbietet. Poe trägt sich mit einem verrückten Gedanken: Er will das Schreiben aufgeben und zum Südpol reisen, wo er durch einen Vulkan ins Innere der Erde absteigen will. Dort, so sagt er, befinde sich die gigantische Hohlwelt, in der die Menschen in Blumen wohnen, seltsame Tiere leben und Raum und Zeit sich einander rätselhaft durchdringen ....

Am Ende der Unendlichkeit Felix Rayman lebt im Staat New York und hat den langweiligsten Beruf der Welt: Er ist Mathematiklehrer in einer Provinzstadt. Seine Familie ist zerrüttet, seine Karriere stritt schon seit Jahren auf der Stelle – Was hat Felix also zu verlieren? Er bringt sich selbst das luzide Träumen bei, um komplexe mathematische Probleme zu lösen, und macht so außerkörperliche Erfahrungen. Bei einer davon trifft er auf den Teufel, dem er mit knapper Not entkommt. Sein Retter ist niemand geringeres als Jesus, der ihn um einen Gefallen bittet: Rayman soll Kathy, einer jungen Frau, die im Wochenbett gestorben ist, nach Cimön bringen. Doch wie gelangt man in ein Land, das unendlich weit entfernt ist? Wie besteigt man dort einen Berg, der unendlich hoch ist? Und gibt es das absolut Unendliche eigentlich?

It''s the only alternate universe. Just the one. 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. At the Publisher''s request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

What is "transrealism"? Your usual life, only it''s an SF novel! The Secret of Life: A 60s college student learns he''s a saucer alien. White Light: A hipster math professor travels to the afterworld. Saucer Wisdom: A cult author tries to write about alien abductions. Rudy Rucker should be declared a National Treasure of American Science Fiction. -William Gibson Rudy Rucker is the most consistently brilliant imagination working in SF today-Charles Stross

One of the most talented contemporary authors of cutting-edge math and science books conducts a fascinating tour of a higher reality, the fourth dimension. Includes problems, puzzles, and 200 drawings. "Informative and mind-dazzling." — Martin Gardner.

Deluxe hardback edtion with fourteen color chapter illustrations based on paintings by the author. Biotech has replaced machines. Qrude young artist Zad Plant works with living paint. But Zad''s career is on the skids, and wife Jane has thrown him out. Enter qwet-or quantum wetware. Qwet makes you high-and it gives you telepathy. A cultural evolution begins. But hungry mouths begin popping out of the air and eating people. Zad and Jane travel through a wormhole to confront the aliens. And they meet something stranger than ever imagined. What is the Big Aha? SF master Rudy Rucker''s wildest adventure yet.

Originally published: Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1987.