Transreal Books: 9 books

Collected together in one ebook: every single one of Rudy Rucker's science-fiction stories, a trove of gnarl and wonder, dating over more than forty years. This, the 2019 edition of Complete Stories, includes stories from 1976 through 2019---all the tales from "The 57th Franz Kafka", "Transreal,"...

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...

A cult novelist investigates a saucer abduction...and is drawn into the freaky, transreal mix. And learns all the secret's of our future.

A coming-of-age science fiction novel of the 60s, blending realism and the fantaistic in a "transreal" style. Features UFOs as well.

Two mind-stretching steampunk SF novels in one volume. *"The Hollow Earth" *is now in its third edition. Our young narrator Mason Reynolds leaves his farm, befriends the dissolute Edgar Allan Poe, and falls through a thousand-mile hole in the ice of Antarctica. Astounding adventures...

A plugged-in rebel becomes the incredible shrinking man. Under the bottom is the top—and the power to smash the Machine.

A math prof takes a wild trip to Absolute Infinity...and back.

A wild romp that recasts the myth of Orpheus and Eurydice in the 21st century surf-punk/slacker world of Santa Cruz and—the afterworld. Our hero Jim braves this world of "flims" on a quest to bring his wife back to from the dead.

A playful and profound survey of the concept of computation across the entire spectrum of human thought—written by a mathematician novelist who spent twenty years as a Silicon Valley computer scientist. The logic is correct, and the conclusions are startling. Simple rules can generate gnarly patterns. ...