New Writers

[womanontarget]

Has anyone read a new book lately that was so good that you went out to find another book by the same author? I go thru books like crazy in the wintertime and I'd like to find someone new and different to read.

[Luke_Wilbur]

Rudy Rucker is an amazing writer. A friend of mine got me hooked on him. I recommend you read 'Software' first. Here is a list of all Rudy Rucker's works.

 

The Lifebox, the Seashell, and the Soul: What Gnarly Computation Taught Me About Ultimate Reality, the Meaning Of Life, and How To Be Happy, nonfiction, Thunder's Mouth Press, (Scheduled October, 2005). Book's web page.

 

Frek and the Elixir, novel, Tor Books, 2004. Book's web page.

 

As Above, So Below: A Novel of Peter Bruegel, historical novel, Tor Books, 2002. Book's web page.

 

Software Engineering and Computer Games, textbook, Addison-Wesley, 2002. Book's web page.

 

Spaceland, novel, Tor Books, 2002. Book's web page. Ebook edition.

 

Realware, novel, Avon Books, 2000.

 

Gnarl!, collected stories, Four Walls Eight Windows, 2000. Book's web page.

 

Saucer Wisdom, novel, Tor Books, 1999. Book's web page.

 

Seek!, selected nonfiction, Four Walls Eight Windows, 1999. Book's web page.

 

Freeware, novel, Avon Books 1997.

 

The Hacker and the Ants, novel, Avon Books 1994, Four Walls Eight Windows

2003. Book's web page.

 

*Transreal!, fiction and nonfiction collection, WCS Books 1991. (Nearly all these pieces also appear in Seek! and Gnarl!)

 

*The Hollow Earth, novel, William Morrow & Co. 1990, Avon Books 1992.

 

All the Visions, memoir, Ocean View Books, 1991. Amazon link.

 

*Wetware, novel, Avon Books 1988, Avon Books 1997.

 

Mind Tools, nonfiction, Houghton Mifflin 1987.

 

*The Secret of Life, novel, Bluejay Books 1985. Ebook edition.

 

Master of Space and Time, novel, Bluejay Books 1984, Baen Books 1985, Thunder's Mouth Press 2005.

 

The Fourth Dimension, nonfiction, Houghton Mifflin 1984.

 

*The Sex Sphere, novel, Ace Books 1983.

 

*The Fifty-Seventh Franz Kafka, story collection, Ace Books 1983. (All these stories appear in Gnarl!)

 

Software, novel, Ace Books 1982, Avon Books 1987, Avon Books 1997.

 

Infinity and the Mind, nonfiction, Birkhäuser ‘82, Bantam ‘83, Princeton University Press, 1995. Book's web page.

 

White Light, novel, Ace Books 1980, Wired Books 1997, Four Walls Eight Windows 2001. Book's web page.

 

*Spacetime Donuts, novel, Ace Books 1981.

 

Geometry, Relativity and the Fourth Dimension, nonfiction, Dover 1977.