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Product Description: Combining both the fiction and nonfiction of one of the most unique contemporary science fiction writers, this collection offers a rare look into Rudy Rucker’s mind as an author and mathematician. Featuring an in-depth interview with Rucker about his ideas, politics, and how his career as a mathematician and scientist overlap with that of a bestselling author, this exclusive compilation is a must-have for any science fiction enthusiast...read more
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9781604863093 | Original edition (Independent Pub Group, January 25, 2012), cover price $12.00 | About this edition: Combining both the fiction and nonfiction of one of the most unique contemporary science fiction writers, this collection offers a rare look into Rudy Rucker’s mind as an author and mathematician.

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Product Description: Nested Scrolls reveals the true life adventures of Rudolf von Bitter “Rudy” Rucker—mathematician, transrealist author, punk rocker, and computer hacker. It begins with a young boy growing up in Louisville, Kentucky, the son of a businessman father who becomes a clergyman, and a mother descended from the philosopher Hegel...read more
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9780765327529 | Tor Books, December 6, 2011, cover price $25.99 | About this edition: Nested Scrolls reveals the true life adventures of Rudolf von Bitter “Rudy” Rucker—mathematician, transrealist author, punk rocker, and computer hacker.

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Product Description: Jim and the Flims is a novel set in Santa Cruz, CA... and the afterlife. Acclaimed cyberpunk/singularity author Rudy Rucker explores themes of death and destruction, in the wry, quirky style he is famous for. Jim Oster ruptures the membrane between our world and afterworld (AKA, The Flimsy), creating a two-way tunnel between them...read more
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9781597802802 | Nightshade Book, June 7, 2011, cover price $24.99 | About this edition: Jim and the Flims is a novel set in Santa Cruz, CA.

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This novel unveils the life and times of the sixteenth-century master as Bruegel and his companions, the cartographer Ortelius and Williblad Cheroo, an American Indian, make their way from Antwerp and Brussels to Rome.
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9780765304032 | Forge, November 1, 2002, cover price $23.95 | About this edition: This novel unveils the life and times of the sixteenth-century master as Bruegel and his companions, the cartographer Ortelius and Williblad Cheroo, an American Indian, make their way from Antwerp and Brussels to Rome.

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9781429939485 | 1 edition (Tor Forge, December 31, 2010), cover price $9.99

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9781429952835 | Tor Books, July 20, 2010, cover price $0.99

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When Jerzy Rugby's boss, Roger Coolidge, releases virus-like programs called 'ants' into his computer equipment, he finds himself in a huge mess when the ants are released into the global TV system and start to mutate
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9780688134167 | Avon Books, May 1, 1994, cover price $20.00 | About this edition: When Jerzy Rugby's boss, Roger Coolidge, releases virus-like programs called 'ants' into his computer equipment, he finds himself in a huge mess when the ants are released into the global TV system and start to mutate

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9780380718443 | Avon Books, May 1, 1995, cover price $4.99 | About this edition: A computer hacker working on a race of intelligent robots, Jerzy Rugby finds he has been made a scapegoat for an attack of electronic viral ants, and must pursue the plague until he encounters Death itself.

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9780786750344 | Running Pr Book Pub, July 21, 2009, cover price $15.95

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Product Description: In Rucker's last novel, Postsingular, the Singularity happened.  Life on Earth has been transformed by the awakening of all matter into consciousness and telepathic communication. The most intimate moments of your life can be experienced by anyone who cares to pay attention, or by hundreds of thousands of anyones if you are one of the Founders who helped create the Singularity...read more
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9780765320742 | Tor Books, May 26, 2009, cover price $25.95 | About this edition: After the Singularity, everyone and everything is sentient and telepathic.

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9780765320759 | 1 reprint edition (Tor Books, June 8, 2010), cover price $17.99 | About this edition: In Rucker's last novel, Postsingular, the Singularity happened.

Miscellaneous:

9781429968607 | 1 edition (Tor Books, May 26, 2009), cover price $9.99

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Product Description: It begins the day after next year in California. A maladjusted computer industry billionaire and a somewhat crazy US president initiate a radical transformation of the world through sentient nanotechnology; sort of the equivalent of biological artificial intelligence...read more
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9780765317414 | Tor Books, October 2, 2007, cover price $25.95 | About this edition: After a bizarre scheme on the part of a ruthless computer billionaire and a wacky U.

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9780765318725 | 1 reprint edition (Tor Books, February 3, 2009), cover price $16.99 | About this edition: It begins the day after next year in California.

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Product Description: he birth of cyberpunk! A seaweed-smoking rebel becomes an incredible shrinking man. Under the bottom is the top--and the power to smash the Machine. After humanity becomes inextricably linked to the computers, a heroic couple makes a scale-ship journey beneath the smallest particles and through the largest cosmic structures, seeking a perfect world...read more
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9780759285897 | E-Rights/E-Reads Ltd, November 30, 2008, cover price $15.95 | About this edition: he birth of cyberpunk!
9780441777754 | Ace Books, September 1, 1981, cover price $2.50 | About this edition: he birth of cyberpunk!

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Fleeing his family's Virginia farm in the company of his father's slave and a companion dog, murder suspect Mason finds sanctuary in the home of his literary hero, Edgar Allan Poe, with whom he embarks on an expedition to the south pole. Original.
By Rudy Rucker (editor)
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9780688094133 | William Morrow & Co, July 1, 1990, cover price $18.95 | About this edition: Interweaving history with science fiction, this adventure--set in the pre-Civil War South--features Edgar Allan Poe and two cohorts exploring the exotic lands of Earth's core and discovering a parallel universe

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9781932265200 | Monkeybrain, December 15, 2006, cover price $15.95 | About this edition: Fleeing his family's Virginia farm in the company of his father's slave and a companion dog, murder suspect Mason finds sanctuary in the home of his literary hero, Edgar Allan Poe, with whom he embarks on an expedition to the south pole.
9780380755356 | Reprint edition (Avon Books, January 1, 1992), cover price $3.99 | About this edition: Interweaving history with science fiction, this adventure--set in the pre-Civil War South--features Edgar Allan Poe and two cohorts exploring the exotic lands of Earth's core and discovering a parallel universe

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Product Description: 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...read more
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9781560259749 | Running Pr Book Pub, December 20, 2006, cover price $15.95 | About this edition: 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.

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Product Description: 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...read more
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9781560257226 | Basic Books, September 29, 2005, cover price $35.00 | About this edition: An explanation of a computation-based conception of reality offers insight into the universe's simple mathematical origins, revealing how today's computers have enabled a greater understanding of how the world works, in a volume that features humorous illustrative fables and a prediction about future evolutionary developments.

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9781560258988 | 1 edition (Basic Books, September 27, 2006), cover price $18.95 | About this edition: A journey of a thousand miles begins with one step, goes the ancient saying.

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Product Description: 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...read more
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9780691121277 | Princeton Univ Pr, November 1, 2004, cover price $26.95 | About this edition: 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.
9780691001722 | Princeton Univ Pr, May 1, 1995, cover price $22.95 | About this edition: 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.

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Visited by a dimension-hopping artificial intelligence named Hans, Paul Girard, a hapless middle-aged bookstore clerk, is given the ability to jump instantly to any world he can envision, and finds himself embarking on a zany, multi-dimensional odyssey in search of happiness, love, wealth, fame, and the mystery of the universe. Original.
By Paul Di Filippo and Rudy Rucker (introduced by)
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9780743498227 | Ibooks, October 1, 2004, cover price $11.95 | About this edition: Visited by a dimension-hopping artificial intelligence named Hans, Paul Girard, a hapless middle-aged bookstore clerk, is given the ability to jump instantly to any world he can envision, and finds himself embarking on a zany, multi-dimensional odyssey in search of happiness, love, wealth, fame, and the mystery of the universe.

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In a series of sixteen chapters, each of which is headed by one of the artist's famous masterpieces, the author of Freeware unveils the life and times of the great sixteenth-century master as Bruegel and his companions, the cartographer Ortelius and Williblad Cheroo, an American Indian, make their way from Antwerp and Brussels to Rome. Reprint. 15,000 first printing. (view table of contents)
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9780765304049 | Reprint edition (Forge, November 1, 2003), cover price $18.99 | About this edition: In a series of sixteen chapters, each of which is headed by one of the artist's famous masterpieces, the author of Freeware unveils the life and times of the great sixteenth-century master as Bruegel and his companions, the cartographer Ortelius and Williblad Cheroo, an American Indian, make their way from Antwerp and Brussels to Rome.

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Activating an experimental machine on New Year's Eve, Joe Cube is contacted by Momo, a woman from the fourth dimension who promised to make him rich if he will help her with a special project. Reprint.
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9780765303660 | Forge, June 1, 2002, cover price $24.95 | About this edition: An experimental machine leads Joe Cube, an employee of a Silicon Valley startup company, to a close encounter with Momo, a woman from the fourth dimension, who offers to make him rich if he will help her with a project.

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9780765303677 | Reprint edition (Tor Books, July 1, 2003), cover price $15.99 | About this edition: Activating an experimental machine on New Year's Eve, Joe Cube is contacted by Momo, a woman from the fourth dimension who promised to make him rich if he will help her with a special project.

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An 'innocent' computer hacker suddenly finds himself on the most wanted list when his computer becomes the source of the worst computer virus in history--a virus he had nothing to do with. Original.
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9781568582474 | Running Pr Book Pub, January 7, 2003, cover price $15.95 | About this edition: An 'innocent' computer hacker suddenly finds himself on the most wanted list when his computer becomes the source of the worst computer virus in history--a virus he had nothing to do with.

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A delightful and informative nonfiction study by a renowned mathematician involves the tale told by an alien abductee to Rucker about future technology and developments in evolution, concepts that are then illustrated in clever cartoons. Reprint. 10,000 first printing. (view table of contents)
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9780312868840 | Forge, July 1, 1999, cover price $23.95 | About this edition: Using the narrative device of a tale told by an alien abductee about future technology, the author speculates on developments in evolution, technology, and science

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9780312868833 | Reprint edition (Forge, June 1, 2001), cover price $14.95 | About this edition: A delightful and informative nonfiction study by a renowned mathematician involves the tale told by an alien abductee to Rucker about future technology and developments in evolution, concepts that are then illustrated in clever cartoons.

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Product Description: Felix Rayman spends the day teaching indifferent students, pondering his theories on infinity, and daydreaming. When his dreams finally separate him from his physical body, Felix plunges headfirst into a multidimensional universe beyond the limits of space and time — the place of White Light...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)
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9781568581989 | 3 edition (Running Pr Book Pub, May 6, 2001), cover price $13.95 | About this edition: Felix Rayman spends the day teaching indifferent students, pondering his theories on infinity, and daydreaming.
9781888869170 | Reprint edition (Hardwired, September 1, 1997), cover price $12.95 | About this edition: Felix Rayman, a frustrated university mathematician, finds the adventure he has been wishing for when he falls into a multidimensional universe

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In 2054, Phil Gottner finds himself in over his head as he deals with a drug-addicted girlfriend, a father who has been swallowed by a hyperspatial anomaly, a new love interest with a visitor from the Moon, and a mysterious alien species and their godlike, fourth-dimensional deity. Reprint.
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9780380808786 | Reprint edition (Eos, April 1, 2001), cover price $6.50 | About this edition: In 2054, Phil Gottner finds himself in over his head as he deals with a drug-addicted girlfriend, a father who has been swallowed by a hyperspatial anomaly, a new love interest with a visitor from the Moon, and a mysterious alien species and their godlike, fourth-dimensional deity.
9780380808779 | Avon Books, June 1, 2000, cover price $14.00 | About this edition: In 2054, Phil Gottner finds himself in over his head as he deals with a drug-addicted girlfriend, a father who has been swallowed by a hyperspatial anomaly, a new love interest with a visitor from the Moon, and a mysterious alien species and their godlike, fourth-dimensional deity.

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Product Description: "To say that UFOs have captured the popular imagination of contemporary America would be an understatement*while appearances of blinking ellipsoids, whirling orbs, and have been reported throughout history, nowhere has the idea of contact with extraterrestrials taken hold so much as in the postwar United States...read more
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9780945558309 | Illinois State Univ, February 1, 2001, cover price $25.00 | About this edition: "To say that UFOs have captured the popular imagination of contemporary America would be an understatement*while appearances of blinking ellipsoids, whirling orbs, and have been reported throughout history, nowhere has the idea of contact with extraterrestrials taken hold so much as in the postwar United States.

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In the year 2953, artificial lifeforms called 'moldies' and humans who resist prejudice are banished to the Moon, and as they strive to create an eden-like environment, intergalactic forces threaten to destroy the carefully structured world. Reprint. NYT.
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9780380975099 | Avon Books, May 1, 1997, cover price $23.00 | About this edition: Rudy Rucker has seen the future.

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9780380781591 | Eos, March 1, 1998, cover price $5.99 | About this edition: In the year 2953, artificial lifeforms called 'moldies' and humans who resist prejudice are banished to the Moon, and as they strive to create an Eden-like environment, intergalactic forces threaten to destroy the carefully structured world
9780380792788 | Avon Books, May 1, 1997, cover price $13.00 | About this edition: Scoffing at societal taboos that forbid fraternization with artificial life forms, Randy Karl Tucker pursues his feelings for robot bookkeeper Monique, but her abduction reveals unsetting revelations about Randy's origins.

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Product Description: outsider sci-fi anthology (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)
By Rudy Rucker (editor), Peter L. Wilson (editor) and Robert A. Wilson (editor)
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9780936756431 | Autonomedia, June 1, 1997, cover price $15.00 | About this edition: outsider sci-fi anthology

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The creator of the first robots with real brains, Cobb Anderson finds himself another aged 'pheezer' with a bad heart, and when he is offered immortality by his creations, he risks his body and his world. Reissue.
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9780380701773 | Reissue edition (Avon Books, April 1, 1997), cover price $6.99 | About this edition: In the year 2020, elderly hippie Cobb Anderson constructs intelligent robots who take control of the moon and offer Cobb a change at immortality
9780441774081 | Ace Books, January 1, 1982, cover price $2.25 | About this edition: It was Cobb Anderson who built the "boppers"--the first robots with real brains.

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Two complete novels--Software, in which robots offer elderly hippie Cobb Anderson immortality, and Wetware, in which the meatbop, a new life form emerges--enter the world of cyberpunk. Reprint.
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9780380775439 | Reprint edition (Avon Books, April 1, 1994), cover price $5.99 | About this edition: Two complete novels--Software, in which robots offer elderly hippie Cobb Anderson immortality, and Wetware, in which the meatbop, a new life form emerges--enter the world of cyberpunk.

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