Rudy Rucker

Light Paperback (1 lb or less)

Ohio

Selected Non-Fiction

Looks at the real world - or what passes for it.

Seek!

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Dust jacket has some minor cosmetic wear. Hardcover is like new.

Heavy Hardcover (2 to 4 lbs)

Utah

What Gnarly Computation Taught Me about Ultimate Reality, the Meaning of Life, and How to Be Happy

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 never-ending story - the real action occurs in the unfolding consequences of the rules. The chip-in-a-box computers so popular in our time have acted as a kind of microscope, letting us see into the secret machinery of the world. In Lifebox, the Seashell, and the Soul, Rucker - known as the father of cyberpunk - uses whimsical drawings, fables, and humor to demonstrate that everything is a computation - that thoughts, computations, and physical processes are all the same. Rucker discusses the linguistic and computational advances that make this kind of "digital philosophy" possible, and explains how, like every great new principle, the computational worldview contains the seeds of a next step.

The Lifebox, the Seashell, and the Soul

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Rudolf V. B. Rucker

Georgia

This hilarious finale to the award-winning series offers more cutting-edge science, raucous social satire and deeply informed speculations from "one of science fiction's wittiest writers" (San Francisco Chronicle)

Realware

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Kansas

Software

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Master of Space and Time

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Perfect condition and ready for a new home. ❤️

Hardcover (1 to 2 lbs)

Maine

A Novel of Peter Bruegel

Rudy Rucker is an author whose writing thus far has been devoted to nonfiction about science and to genre fiction. He has won awards and achieved a substantial reputation in those fields. But he also has a long-standing fascination with the paintings of one of the great European artists, an interest that has led him to visit museums around the world and to investigate the facts of the artist’s life. Pieter 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, mathematician, and art lover Rudy Rucker has taken what is known and imagined for us the life and world of a 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 bestselling 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, recorded for us forever by the enigmatic and engaging genius readers will meet in the pages of As Above So Below.

As above, So Below

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Heavy Paperback (2 to 4 lbs)

Science

The Science and Philosophy of the Infinite

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. Rucker acquaints us with Gödel's rotating universe, in which it is theoretically possible to travel into the past, and explains an interpretation of quantum mechanics in which billions of parallel worlds are produced every microsecond. It is in the realm of infinity, he maintains, that mathematics, science, and logic merge with the fantastic. By closely examining the paradoxes that arise from this merging, we can learn a great deal about the human mind, its powers, and its limitations. Using cartoons, puzzles, and quotations to enliven his text, Rucker guides us through such topics as the paradoxes of set theory, the possibilities of physical infinities, and the results of Gödel's incompleteness theorems. His personal encounters with Gödel the mathematician and philosopher provide a rare glimpse at genius and reveal what very few mathematicians have dared to admit: the transcendent implications of Platonic realism.

Infinity and the Mind

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Iowa

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, unusual becaise he was conceived without technological help or genetic modifications. His dad, Carb, is a malcontent who left behind Frek's mom and the Earth itself several years ago.

Everything changes when Frek finds the Anvil, a small flying saucer, under his bed, and it tells him he is destined to save the world. The repressive forces of Gov, the mysterious absolute ruler of Earth, descend on Frek, take away the Anvil, and interrogate him forcefully enough to damage his memory. Frek flees with Wow, his talking dog, to seek out Carb and some answers. But the untrustworthy alien in the saucer has other plans, including claiming exclusive rights to market humanity to the galaxy at large, and making Frek a hero.

Frek and the Elixir is a profound, playful SF epic by the wild and ambitious Rudy Rucker.

Frek and the Elixir

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Includes three novels Software, Wetware and Freeware 

Moldies & Meatbops

North Carolina

As Above, So Below

New York

A Novel of the Fourth Dimension

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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