A hundred and thirty-one fantastical paintings by science fiction master Rudy Rucker, including his notes on them. Rucker took up painting in 1999, when he was writing a novel about the medieval Flemish artist Peter Bruegel. Rucker's paintings are colorful and surreal, many with connections to his science-fiction novels. This edtion was updated in June, 2016. See rudyrucker.com/paintings for futher information.

Better Worlds

Arts & Photography

Rucker,Rudy

Individual Artists

Transreal Books

What if Alan Turing, founder of the modern computer age, escaped assassination by the secret service to become the lover of Beat author William Burroughs? What if they mutated into giant shapeshifting slugs, fled the FBI, raised Burroughs’s wife from the dead, and tweaked the H-bombs of Los Alamos? A wild beatnik adventure, compulsively readable, hysterically funny, with insane warps and twists—and a bad attitude throughout.

Turing & Burroughs: A Beatnik SF Novel

RUDY RUCKER

Science & Math

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 new psychedelic revolution 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…

The Big Aha

Science Fiction & Fantasy

Science Fiction

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.

"Notes for The Big Aha" documents two years of writing a novel, and describes Rucker's transition to new modes of publishing. Amusing, inspiring, and worldly wise, these writing notes may prove useful and encouraging for your own creative work, as well as enhancing your  appreciation of the novel, "The Big Aha." This deluxe collector's hardback edition includes 35 illustrations, 12 of them in color.

Notes for The Big Aha

Reference

Dictionaries & Thesauruses

All the Visions

In 1983, cyberpunk author Rudy Rucker typed "All the Visions," a novel in the form of an 80-foot scroll of paper. Inspiration? Jack Kerouac’s "On the Road." Rucker’s picaresque tale describes the adventures of Conrad Bunger: mathematician,writer,seeker,rebel,freak. And now this underground classic is back in a new edition, smooth and strange. [This is a preview edition, the book will go live on Amazon in July, 2014.]

Literature & Fiction

All the Visions is a short autobiographical novel that Rucker wrote In 1983. Wanting to emulate Jack Kerouac's composition of "On the Road," he typed "All the Visions" on an 80-foot scroll of paper instead of using separate sheets. The book describes the adventures of Conrad Bunger: mathematician, writer, seeker, rebel, freak.

Biographies & Memoirs

Memoirs

Transreal Cyberpunk

Nine wild, weird and wondrous stories, written together by Rucker and Sterling. What do you get if two cyberpunk masters spend thirty years writing tales about transreally warped versions of themselves? A unique perspective on giant ants, flying jellyfish, Soviet rocketeers, runaway genomics, Silicon Valley, and the death of the Universe. With notes by the authors and an introduction by Rob Latham. This is the same January 17, 2016, edition as the Kindle version.

Sterling, Bruce

United States

Nine wild, weird and wondrous stories, written together by Rucker and Sterling. What do you get if two cyberpunk masters spend thirty years writing tales about transreally warped versions of themselves? A unique perspective on giant ants, flying jellyfish, Soviet rocketeers, runaway genomics, Silicon Valley, and the death of the Universe. With notes by the authors and an introduction by Rob Latham.

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

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Better Worlds

Turing & Burroughs: A Beatnik SF Novel

The Big Aha

The Big Aha

Notes for The Big Aha

All the Visions

All the Visions

Transreal Cyberpunk

Transreal Cyberpunk

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