Anthologies#
| Title |
Published |
Buy on Amazon |
| Mirrorshades |
1986 |
Buy |
| Mathenauts |
1987 |
Buy |
| Semiotext SF |
1991 |
Buy |
| Storming the Reality Studio |
1991 |
Buy |
| Christmas Forever |
1993 |
Buy |
| Asimov’s Science Fiction, November 1994 |
1994 |
Buy |
| The Ultimate Cyberpunk |
2002 |
Buy |
| Year’s Best SF 11 |
2006 |
Buy |
| Golden Age SF |
2009 |
Buy |
| Hieroglyph |
2014 |
Buy |
Collections#
| Title |
Published |
Buy on Amazon |
| The 57th Franz Kafka |
1983 |
Buy |
| Transreal! |
1991 |
Buy |
| Gnarl! |
2000 |
Buy |
| Mad Professor |
2006 |
Buy |
| Complete Stories, Volume One |
2012 |
Buy |
| Transreal Cyberpunk |
2015 |
Buy |
| The Hollow Earth & Return to the Hollow Earth |
2018 |
Buy |
Non-Fiction#
| Title |
Published |
Buy on Amazon |
| Infinity and the Mind: The Science and Philosophy of the Infinite |
1981 |
Buy |
| The Fourth Dimension: Toward a Geometry of Higher Reality |
1984 |
Buy |
| Mind Tools |
1987 |
Buy |
| Artificial Life Lab/Book and Disk |
1993 |
Buy |
| Seek! Selected Nonfiction |
1999 |
Buy |
| Software Engineering and Computer Games |
2002 |
Buy |
| The Lifebox, the Seashell, and the Soul |
2005 |
Buy |
| Nested Scrolls |
2011 |
Buy |
| Collected Essays |
2012 |
Buy |
| How To Make An Ebook |
2012 |
Buy |
| Journals I |
2012 |
Buy |
| Journals II |
2012 |
Buy |
| Better Worlds |
2012 |
Buy |
| Notes for The Big Aha |
2013 |
Buy |
| Journals |
2015 |
Buy |
| Notes for Million Mile Road Trip |
2019 |
Buy |
Postsingular Reading Order#
| Title |
Published |
Buy on Amazon |
| Postsingular |
2007 |
Buy |
| Hylozoic |
2009 |
Buy |
Short Stories/Novellas#
| Title |
Published |
Buy on Amazon |
| Jack and the Aktuals, or, Physical Applications of Transfinite Set Theory |
2010 |
Buy |
| Good Night, Moon |
2011 |
Buy |
| Loco |
2012 |
Buy |
| Where the Lost Things Are |
2014 |
Buy |
| Totem Poles |
2016 |
Buy |
Standalone Novels#
| Title |
Published |
Buy on Amazon |
| White Light |
1980 |
Buy |
| Spacetime Donuts |
1981 |
Buy |
| The Sex Sphere |
1983 |
Buy |
| Master of Space and Time |
1985 |
Buy |
| The Hacker and the Ants |
1994 |
Buy |
| Saucer Wisdom |
1999 |
Buy |
| Spaceland of the Fourth Dimension |
2002 |
Buy |
| As Above, So Below |
2002 |
Buy |
| Spaceland |
2002 |
Buy |
| Frek and the Elixir |
2004 |
Buy |
| Mathematicians in Love |
2006 |
Buy |
| Jim and the Flims |
2011 |
Buy |
| Turing & Burroughs |
2012 |
Buy |
| All the Visions |
2014 |
Buy |
| Million Mile Road Trip |
2019 |
Buy |
| The Secret of Life |
2019 |
Buy |
| Juicy Ghosts |
2021 |
Buy |
| Notes for Juicy Ghosts |
2021 |
Buy |
| Sqinks |
2025 |
Buy |
The Hollow Earth Reading Order#
| Title |
Published |
Buy on Amazon |
| The Hollow Earth |
1990 |
Buy |
| The Hollow Earth & Return to the Hollow Earth |
2018 |
N/A |
| Return to the Hollow Earth |
2018 |
Buy |
| Notes for Return to the Hollow Earth |
2018 |
Buy |
The Next Wave Reading Order#
| Title |
Published |
Buy on Amazon |
| Alien Tongue |
1991 |
Buy |
| Red Genesis |
1991 |
Buy |
| The Modular Man |
1992 |
Buy |
Ware Reading Order#
| Title |
Published |
Buy on Amazon |
| Software |
1982 |
Buy |
| Wetware |
1988 |
Buy |
| Freeware |
1997 |
Buy |
| Realware |
2000 |
Buy |
Rudy Rucker is a mathematician, computer scientist, and science fiction writer whose work sits at the intersection of all three fields. He was part of the cyberpunk movement in the 1980s, and his Ware series (Software, Wetware, Freeware, Realware) won two Philip K. Dick Awards. His fiction often explores what happens when technology, mathematics, and human consciousness collide.
Beyond cyberpunk, Rucker developed the concept of transrealism, a style that mixes personal experience with speculative fiction. His non-fiction books on infinity, higher dimensions, and the philosophy of mathematics have reached audiences well beyond the science fiction community. With 70 books spanning novels, short fiction, non-fiction, and collections, he is one of the most mathematically literate authors in science fiction.
Frequently Asked Questions
How many books has Rudy Rucker written?
Rudy Rucker has written 70 books across nine series.
What was Rudy Rucker's first book?
Rudy Rucker’s first book is White Light, published in 1980.
What is transrealism in Rudy Rucker's work?
Transrealism is a literary approach Rucker helped develop, blending autobiography with science fiction. His transreal novels use real-life experiences and people as starting points, then push them through speculative scenarios involving higher dimensions, artificial intelligence, or alien contact.