Reading order
| # | Title | Published | Author | Buy on Amazon |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | White Light | 1980 | Rudy Rucker | Buy |
| 2 | Spacetime Donuts | 1981 | Rudy Rucker | Buy |
| 3 | The Sex Sphere | 1983 | Rudy Rucker | Buy |
| 4 | Master of Space and Time | 1985 | Rudy Rucker | Buy |
| 5 | The Hacker and the Ants | 1994 | Rudy Rucker | Buy |
| 6 | Saucer Wisdom | 1999 | Rudy Rucker | Buy |
| 7 | Spaceland of the Fourth Dimension | 2002 | Rudy Rucker | Buy |
| 8 | As Above, So Below | 2002 | Rudy Rucker | Buy |
| 9 | Spaceland | 2002 | Rudy Rucker | Buy |
| 10 | Frek and the Elixir | 2004 | Rudy Rucker | Buy |
| 11 | Mathematicians in Love | 2006 | Rudy Rucker | Buy |
| 12 | Jim and the Flims | 2011 | Rudy Rucker | Buy |
| 13 | Turing & Burroughs | 2012 | Rudy Rucker | Buy |
| 14 | All the Visions | 2014 | Rudy Rucker | Buy |
| 15 | Million Mile Road Trip | 2019 | Rudy Rucker | Buy |
| 16 | The Secret of Life | 2019 | Rudy Rucker | Buy |
| 17 | Juicy Ghosts | 2021 | Rudy Rucker | Buy |
| 18 | Notes for Juicy Ghosts | 2021 | Rudy Rucker | Buy |
| 19 | Sqinks | 2025 | Rudy Rucker | Buy |
Rudy Rucker’s standalone novels cover an enormous range of ideas, from the mathematics of infinity (White Light) to a fictionalized biography of Pieter Bruegel (As Above, So Below) to a road trip across an alien-generated landscape (Million Mile Road Trip). What connects them is Rucker’s restless imagination and his habit of grounding wild speculative concepts in recognizable human situations.
His early standalones like Spacetime Donuts and The Sex Sphere established his reputation for mixing hard science with dark comedy. Later books like Turing & Burroughs and Juicy Ghosts show a writer still experimenting in his seventies, blending historical figures, contemporary politics, and far-out science fiction into something entirely his own.