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White Light
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Rudy Rucker, two-time winner of the prestigious Philip K. Dick Award, is one of SF's most inventive and irreverent authors, exploring artificial life, chaos theory, and hacker culture. "White Light", Rucker's 1979 novel about a university math instructor and his existential beetle friend who get lost in a multidimensional astral universe of warped ...
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As Above, So Below: A Novel of Peter Bruegel
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Small reproductions of Bruegel's paintings head each of the 16 chapters of this novel, which tells the story of the painter's life in a series of episodes, beginning with his apprenticeship as a young man through his successes as a master painter himself.
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Infinity and the Mind: The Science and Philosophy of the Infinite
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In 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. Here Rucker acquaints us with Godel's rotating universe, in which it is theoretically possible to travel into the ...
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Freeware
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Bad-smelling, sex-driven, artificially intelligent lifeforms called "Moldies"--made of plastic, algae, and fungi--travel to the moon with some enlightened humans to start a new civilization.
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The Lifebox, the Seashell, and the Soul: What Gnarly Computation Taught Me about Ultimate Reality, the Meaning of Life, and How to Be Happy
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"A journey of a thousand miles begins with one step," goes the ancient saying. This concept is at the root of the computational worldview, which basically says that very complex systems -- the world we live in -- have their beginnings in simple mathematical equations. We've lately come to understand that such an algorithm is only the start of a ...
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Geometry, Relativity, and the Fourth Dimension
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Rudy Von B Rucker
Exposition of fourth dimension, concepts of relativity as Flatland characters continue adventures. Topics include curved space time as a higher dimension, special relativity, and shape of space-time. Includes 141 illustrations.
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Software
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Published here for the first time in illustrated trade paperback, this is Rudy Rucker's brilliant novel that helped define the cyberpunk movement in science fiction and won the first Phillip K. Dick Award. 16 black-and-white illustrations.
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Mind Tools Pa
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Now available in paperback, Mind Tools connects mathematics to the world around us. Reveals mathematics' great power as an alternative language for understanding things and explores such concepts as logic as a computing tool, digital versus analog processes and communication as information transmission. 150 line drawings.
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The Fourth Dimension: A Guided Tour of the Higher Universes
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Rudy Von B Rucker, Roy Rucker, Martin Gardner (Adapted by)
A detailed description of what the fourth dimension would be like.
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Spaceland
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Silicon Valley start-up employee Joe Cube gets far more than he bargained for when he takes home a mysterious machine on New Year's Eve. His introduction to Momo, a being from the fourth dimension, proves perilous, rewarding, and breathless.
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Realware
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This finale to the series that includes "Software, Wetware", and "Freeware" is set in 2054 where Phil Gottner's father has just been absorbed by a hyperspatial anomaly. At the funeral, Phil falls in love with Yoke, an elusive young lovely from the moon. But Phil suspects his father's absorption is linked somehow to an alien presence at the bottom ...
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Postsingular
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The Singularity has happened, and life afterward proves to be more bizarre than we thought. "SF book of the year" ("Interzone").
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Frek and the Elixir
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In the year 3003, nothing in the world is the same, except maybe that adolescents are still embarrassed by their parents. Society and the biosphere alike have been transformed by biotechnology, and the natural world is almost gone. Frek Huggins is a boy from a broken family, a misfit because he's a natural child, conceived without technological ...
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The Hollow Earth: The Narrative of Mason Algiers Reynolds of Virginia
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Hacker & the Ants (Hc)
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Computer programmer Jerzy Rugby spends his days hacking away in cyberspace. Then an electronic ant gets into the machinery wreaking havoc throughout the Net. Suddenly Rugby is Public Enemy Number One, wanted for sabotage, computer crime, and treason--a patsy who must now get to the bottom of the virtual insectile plague.
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Mathenauts: Tales of Mathematical Wonder
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Wetware
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Master of space and time
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Rudy v. B. Rucker
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 ...
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Mad Professor: The Uncollected Short Stories of Rudy Rucker
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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 ...
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The Hollow Earth
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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 extraordinary expedition to the South Pole, and the entrance to the Hollow Earth. It is there, at the center of the world, where strange ...
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Mathematicians in Love
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Reality is never more unpredictable than when two mathematicians are in love with the same girl, and can change the world to get her. Bela and Paul, two wild young mathematicians, are friends and roommates, and both are in love with Alma, Bela's girlfriend. They fight it out by changing reality using cutting-edge math. The contemporary world they ...
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Saucer Wisdom
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In this literary experiment, mathematician and science fiction author Rucker presents himself as the main character in a nonfiction book of predictions for the future.
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Seek: Selected Nonfiction
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In this collection of non-fiction essays, Rucker--a first-generation cyberpunk author, mathematician, and computer expert--interweaves his life story with his views on a wide range of topics including artificial life, original hackers, drug-influenced adventures, and cyberculture.
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Gnarl!: Stories
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This volume collects more than thirty short stories by author Rucker, and includes most of the stories from two earlier, limited edition collections.
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Live Robots
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