Rudy Von B. Rucker, Author . Tor $24.95 (301p) ISBN 978-0-7653-0366-0
Like a Möbius strip, that mathematical curiosity in which one surface is produced by twisting judiciously then joining two ends of a ribbon, Rucker's new hard SF satire tweaks the dot-com Y2K subculture into a hilarious tribute to Edwin...
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Rudy Von B. Rucker, Author . Forge $23.95 (320p) ISBN 978-0-7653-0403-2
As intricate—if not as fluent—as one of its subject's own vivid depictions of 16th-century life in the Spanish-dominated Low Countries, Rucker's fictionalized life of Bruegel draws its readers into a teeming world of politics,...
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Rudy Von B. Rucker, Author William Morrow & Company $20 (307p) ISBN 978-0-688-13416-7
With a protagonist named Jerzy Rugby, a realty company called Welsh & Tayke, hackers who call themselves Bety Byte and Riscky Pharbeque and computer daemons that look like ants and destroy digital television transmissions, Rucker's second novel...
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Rudy Von B. Rucker, Author Avon Books $4.99 (0p) ISBN 978-0-380-71844-3
A Silicon Valley computer programmer must rid the nation's computer network of a literal computer bug-a massive ant infestation-in cyberpunk author Rucker's latest novel. (May)
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Rudy Von B. Rucker, Author Forge $23.95 (304p) ISBN 978-0-312-86884-0
A potpourri of futuristic predictions presented in the form of an imaginary UFO abductee's confessional, Rucker's light-spirited cosmic romp promises more than it delivers. A mathematician, computer scientist, novelist and pop science writer (The...
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Rudy Von B. Rucker, Author Eos $14 (320p) ISBN 978-0-380-80877-9
Philip K. Dick Award-winner Rucker (Software; Wetware; Freeware) concludes his satirical SF ""Ware"" tetralogy with this homage to Edwin Abbott's Victorian classic Flatland. Phil Gottner's discovery that his father has apparently been swallowed...
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Rudy Von B. Rucker, Author Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH) $17.95 (328p) ISBN 978-0-395-38315-5
Number, space, logic, infinitythese basic patterns seem to reflect essential features of our minds and of the world around us. By analyzing each of these building blocks from the standpoint of information (reduction of uncertainty), Rucker takes the
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Rudy Von B. Rucker, Author William Morrow & Company $18.95 (308p) ISBN 978-0-688-09413-3
In an ``editor's note,'' Rucker ( Wetware ) claims to have found and edited this manuscript written in 1849, shortly after the death of Edgar Allan Poe. Its author, Mason Algiers Reynolds, tells of joining Poe in a counterfeiting scheme to finance...
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Rudy Von B. Rucker, Author Running Press Book Publishers $20 (576p) ISBN 978-1-56858-158-3
A mathematician and computer scientist, Rucker (Saucer Wisdom) is probably best known for the bitingly satirical fiction he wrote during SF's 1980s cyberpunk revolution. Arriving on the heels of his newly collected nonfiction, SEEK! (1999), this...
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Rudy Von B. Rucker, Author Tor Books $27.95 (476p) ISBN 978-0-7653-1058-3
Welcome to suburban life in 3003, after NuBioCom collapsed the biome in 2666 and destroyed the last of Earth's original animal species (and every DNA record needed to re-create them), replacing them with company-designed ""kritters."" Frek Huggins,...
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