Rudolf von Bitter Rucker es un autor estadounidense de ciencia ficción y uno de los fundadores del género cyberpunk. Sus obras exploran frecuentemente ideas científicas y filosóficas complejas, entrelazándolas con visiones futuristas. El estilo distintivo de Rucker combina precisión técnica con imaginación salvaje, investigando los límites de la existencia y la conciencia humanas. Sus contribuciones han dado forma significativa a la ciencia ficción moderna.
"Juicy Ghosts" is a fast-paced adventure novel, with startling science, engaging dialog-and a happy ending. The novel treats near-future versions of telepathy and immortality. It's also a redemptive political tale, reacting to the chaos of the 2020 US presidential election. The tone is hip, bright, and darkly comic, with generous helpings of Rucker's SF surrealism. Romances interweave the tale, and most of the narrators are women.
Writing notes for Rudy Ruck's novel, "Juicy Ghosts." A book-length volume with 25 grayscale illustrations.
"Return to the Hollow Earth" is Rucker's rollicking sequel to "The Hollow Earth." Our young hero Mason and his wife Seela embark on a return voyage to the Hollow Earth with Edgar Allan Poe, traversing a great maelstrom at the North Pole. And when they return to the surface, they're in Santa Cruz, California-in the year 2018.
Two jolly steampunk novels about strange beings within our Hollow Earth. Features Edgar Allan Poe. A rollicking adventure with surprising twists. Contains Rucker's 1990 "The Hollow Earth" and his new sequel, "Return to the Hollow Earth."
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.
In Rucker's last novel, Postsingular, the Singularity happened. Life on Earth has been transformed by the awakening of all matter into consciousness and telepathic communication. The most intimate moments of your life can be experienced by anyone who cares to pay attention, or by hundreds of thousands of anyones if you are one of the Founders who helped create the Singularity. The small bunch of Founders, including young newlyweds Thuy, a hypertext novelist, and Jayjay, a gamer and brain-enhancement addict, are living a popular live-action media life. But now alien races that have already gone through this transformation notice Earth for the first time, and begin to arrive to exploit both the new environment and any available humans. Some of them are real estate developers, some are slavers, and some just want to help. But who is to tell the difference? Someone has to save humanity from the alien invasions, and it might as well be reality media stars Thuy and Jayjay. They have the problems of soap opera stars, and are still propelled through adventures in time and in other universes, a long strange trip indeed.
After a bizarre scheme on the part of a ruthless computer billionaire and a wacky U.S. president to radically alter the world through sentient nanotechnology goes awry, mysterious giant humanoids from another quantum universe arrive on Earth with plans to tidy up humankind's mess.
In 2054, Phil Gottner finds himself in over his head as he deals with a drug-addicted girlfriend, a father who has been swallowed by a hyperspatial anomaly, a new love interest with a visitor from the Moon, and a mysterious alien species and their godlike, fourth-dimensional deity. Reprint.
Rudy Rucker envisions a bold future where "moldies," advanced artificial lifeforms made of soft plastic and gene-tweaked materials, disrupt society in 2053. These anatomically inventive beings are universally despised, leading to a chaotic low-rent world. The moon becomes a refuge for persecuted moldies and progressive "fleshers" seeking to forge a new hybrid civilization. However, they must navigate various intergalactic intelligences, each with their own agendas. This narrative showcases Rucker's unique blend of humor, innovation, and deep knowledge. In this dystopian setting, sexual relationships with moldies are taboo, a societal sin that Randy Karl Tucker, a Kentucky native, disregards. Straying from the strict teachings of his Heritagist religion, he develops feelings for Monique, a moldie who works as a bookkeeper and maid at the Clearlight Terrace Court Motel. When Monique mysteriously disappears, Randy finds himself entangled in a web of conspiracies that challenge his understanding of identity and morality. As he delves deeper into the situation, humanity inches closer to a shocking confrontation with intergalactic intelligence, highlighting themes of acceptance and the complexities of existence in a rapidly evolving world.
