Light Paperback (1 lb or less)

California

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.

Software

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#space #Galaxy #sciencefiction #scifi #alien #governmentcontrol #fiction

Paperback (1 to 2 lbs)

Virginia

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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#paperback #fiction #scifi #tech 💻 📚 

Kentucky

Wetware

#sci-fi #scifi #fiction #science #madscientist #love

The Sex Sphere

New book (remaindered copy) #scifi #novel #paperback #adult #contemporary 

Kansas

The lives of scientist Alan Turing and author William Burroughs are turned upside down in this off-the-wall sci-fi caper from Rudy Rucker. What if Alan Turing, founder of the modern computer age, faked his suicide to escape assassination by the secret service? What if he then became the lover of Beat author William Burroughs? And what if they then mutated into giant shapeshifting slugs, fled the FBI agents tracking them, raised Burroughs’s wife—killed in a tragic drunken mishap—from the dead, and, finally, tweaked the H-bombs of Los Alamos to use them for a very different purpose? Turing & Burroughs is a wild beatnik adventure: compulsively readable, hysterically funny, with insane warps and twists—and a bad attitude throughout. Night Shade Books is proud to present new editions of influential mathematician-turned-author Rudy Rucker’s brilliantly weird novels, sharing Rucker’s fascinating and unique approach to science fiction with an entirely new generation of readers.

Turing & Burroughs

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Texas

Math

The Five Levels of Mathematical Reality

This reader-friendly volume groups the patterns of mathematics into five archetypes: numbers, space, logic, infinity, and information. Rudy Rucker presents an accessible introduction to each of these important areas, reflecting intelligence gathered from the frontiers of mathematical thought. More than 100 drawings illuminate explorations of digital versus analog processes, logic as a computing tool, communication as information transmission, and other "mind tools."
"Mind Tools is an original and fascinating look at various aspects of mathematics that is sure to fascinate the nonmathematician." -- Isaac Asimov
"A lighthearted romp through contemporary mathematics. . . . Mind Tools is a delight." -- San Francisco Chronicle
"For those who gave up college mathematics for what seemed more liberal arts, Rudy Rucker's book, Mind Tools, is a dazzling refresher course. . . . He rekindles the wonder that can come from contemplating logarithms, exponential curves and transcendental numbers." -- The New York Times Book Review
"One of Rucker's greatest assets is his ability to make complexities comprehensible to the general reader without lecturing." -- The Washington Post
"Approaching all of mathematics, and everything else, by way of information theory, Dr. Rucker's latest and most exciting book opens vistas of dazzling beauty -- scenes that blend order with chaos, reality with fantasy, that startle you with their depths of impenetrable mystery." -- Martin Gardner


Mind Tools

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Creasing on covers. Curled edges. No damage inside. #shortstories #collection #paperback #sci-fi

The Uncollected Short Stories of Rudy Rucker

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. In Chu and the Nants we read of a bizarre future following a Verge Singularity, in which hyperintelligent computers have taken over the solar system. Panpsychism Proved breaks down the boundaries between mind and matter, exploring the notion that "every object has a mind." And Six Thought Experiments Concerning the Nature of Computation is an exhilarating collection of mini-stories taking us to the outrageous extremes of theoretical speculation. In The Mad Professor, Rucker deploys the full range of his writing talent and scientific knowledge to take us on a wild romp through the known, the unknown, and the awesomely peculiar.

Mad Professor

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#paperback #scifi #futuristic #quest #adventure

Iowa

***SIGNED ***

Minotaur Maze 

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.

Rudy Rucker

Software

Rudy Rucker

Frek and the Elixir

Rudy Rucker

Software

Rudy Rucker

Wetware

Rudy Rucker

The Sex Sphere

Rudy Rucker

Turing & Burroughs

Rudy Rucker

Mind Tools

Rudy Rucker

Mad Professor

Rudy Rucker

Frek and the Elixir

Robert Sheckley; Rudy Rucker

Minotaur Maze

Rudy Rucker

Spaceland

Charline R. McCord, Judy H. Tucker

Christmas in the South