by Rudy Rucker
Back in the first chapter, I mentioned that I wondered what my life has meant. But now I see that’s not a question I’m in a position to analyze. I’m inside my story, not outside of it. What does a flower mean? A waterfall?
This said, as a writer, I can think about my life’s structure, about the story arc. I see a few obvious themes.
I searched for ultimate reality, and I found contentment in creativity. I tried to scale the heights of science, and I found my calling in mathematics and in science fiction. I drank and smoked pot, and then I stopped. I was a loner, I found love, I became a family man. I was a rebel and I became a helpful professor. And I never stopped seeing the world in my own special way.
When I was a kid, I felt like an ugly duckling. I’m a once-awkward outcast who grew into grace—thanks in large measure to dear Sylvia.
Thanks for everything, world.
It’s been a wonderful trip.
—Los Gatos, California, January 30, 2010
Bibliograpghy
Books
Jim and the Flims, SF novel, Night Shade Books, 2011.
Nested Scrolls: A Writer’s Life, autobiography, PS Publishing and Forge Books, 2011.
The Ware Tetralogy, omnibus edition of Software, Wetware, Freeware and Realware, Prime Books 2010.
Hylozoic, SF novel (sequel to Postsingular), Tor Books 2009.
Postsingular, SF novel, Tor Books 2007.
Mad Professor, collected SF stories, Thunder’s Mouth Press 2007.
Mathematicians in Love, SF novel, Tor Books, 2006.
The Lifebox, the Seashell, and the Soul, nonfiction on computers and reality, Thunder’s Mouth Press 2005, Basic Books 2006.
Frek and the Elixir, SF novel, Tor Books, 2004.
Software Engineering and Computer Games, textbook, Addison-Wesley, 2003.
Spaceland, SF novel, Tor Books, 2002.
As Above, So Below: A Novel of Peter Bruegel, historical novel, Forge Books, 2002.
Gnarl!, collected SF stories, Four Walls Eight Windows, 2000.
Realware, SF novel, Avon Books, 2000.
Saucer Wisdom, SF novel, Forge Books, 1999.
Seek!, collected essays, Four Walls Eight Windows, 1999.
Freeware, SF novel, Avon Books 1997.
The Hacker and the Ants, SF novel, Avon Books 1994, Four Walls Eight Windows 2002.
Transreal!, collected poems, SF stories and essays, WCS Books 1991.
The Hollow Earth, SF novel, William Morrow & Co. 1990, Avon Books 1992, Monkeybrain Books 2008.
All The Visions, memoir, Ocean View Books, 1991.
Wetware, SF novel, Avon Books 1988, Avon Books 1997.
Mind Tools, nonfiction on mathematics and information, Houghton Mifflin 1987.
The Secret of Life, SF novel, Bluejay Books 1985, ElectricStory 2001.
Master of Space and Time, SF novel, Bluejay Books 1984, Baen Books 1985, Running Press, 2005.
The Fourth Dimension, nonfiction, Houghton Mifflin 1984.
Light Fuse and Get Away, self-published poetry chapbook, Carp Press 1983.
The Sex Sphere, SF novel, Ace Books 1983, E-Reads 2008.
The Fifty-Seventh Franz Kafka, collected SF stories, Ace Books 1983.
Software, SF novel, Ace Books 1982, Avon Books 1987, Avon Books 1997.
Infinity and the Mind, nonfiction, Birkhäuser 1982, Bantam 1983, Princeton University Press 1995, 2005.
White Light, SF novel, Ace Books 1980, Wired Books 1997, Four Walls Eight Windows 2001.
Spacetime Donuts, SF novel, Ace Books 1981, E-Reads 2008.
Geometry, Relativity and the Fourth Dimension, nonfiction, Dover 1977.
Books Edited
MONDO 2000: A User’s Guide to the New Edge, HarperCollins 1992, (with R. U. Sirius and Queen Mu).
Semiotext(e) SF, Autonomedia 1989, (with Peter Wilson and Robert Anton Wilson).
Mathenauts: Tales of Mathematical Wonder, Arbor House 1987.
Speculations on the Fourth Dimension: Selected Writings of Charles Howard Hinton, Dover 1983.
Software Packages
The Pop Game Framework, San Jose State University 2003.
CAPOW, San Jose State University 1998, (with a team of students).
Artificial Life Lab, Waite Group Press 1993.
CHAOS: James Gleick’s Chaos Software, Autodesk 1990, (with Josh Gordon and John Walker).
CA Lab: Rudy Rucker’s Cellular Automata Laboratory, Autodesk 1989, (with John Walker).
Software downloads, writing notes, links to art pages and more are available at the book’s website, www.rudyrucker.com/9781429986205.
Tor Books by Rudy Rucker
As Above, So Below
Frek and the Elixer
Hylozoic
Mathematicians in Love
Postsingular
Saucer Wisdom
Spaceland
NESTED SCROLLS: THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF RUDOLPH VON BITTER RUCKER
Copyright © 2011 by Rudy Rucker
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First published in Great Britain by PS Publishing Ltd. by arrangement with the author.