Rudy Rucker

Rudolf von Bitter Rucker (born March 22, 1946 in Louisville, Kentucky) is an American computer scientist and science fiction author, often included in lists of cyberpunk authors. He is best known for the novels in the Ware Tetralogy (the first two of which Software and Wetware both won Philip K. Dick Awards) as well as non-fiction books such as Geometry, Relativity and the Fourth Dimension and Infinity and the Mind. He is the great-great-great-grandson of Georg Hegel.

Works

• The Ware Tetralogy
• Software (1982)
  
• Wetware (1988)
  
• Freeware (1997)
  
• Realware (2000)
  
• Transrealist novels
• White Light (1980)
  
• Spacetime Donuts (1981)
  
• The Sex Sphere (1983)
  
• The Secret of Life (1985)
  
• The Hacker and the Ants (1994)
  
• Saucer Wisdom (1999)
  
• Hacker and the Ants, Version 2.0 (2003)
  
• Other Novels
• Master of Space and Time (1984)
  
• The Hollow Earth (1990)
  
• Spaceland (2002)
  
• As Above, So Below: A Novel of Peter Bruegel (2002)
  
• Frek and the Elixir (2004)
  
• Story collections
• The Fifty-Seventh Franz Kafka (1983)
  
• Transreal!, also includes some non-fiction essays (1991)
  
• Gnarl! (2000), complete short stories
  
• Non-fiction
• Geometry, Relativity and the Fourth Dimension (1977)
  
• Infinity and the Mind (1982)
  
• The Fourth Dimension (1984)
  
• Mind Tools (1987)
  
• All the Visions (1991), memoir
  
• Seek! (1999), collected essays
  
• Software Engineering and Computer Games (2002), textbook
  
• The Lifebox, the Seashell, and the Soul (2005)