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The Men in the Back Room at the Country Club

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Product Description: Notice: This Book is published by Historical Books Limited (www.publicdomain.org.uk) as a Public Domain Book, if you have any inquiries, requests or need any help you can just send an email to publications@publicdomain.org.uk This book is found as a public domain and free book based on various online catalogs, if you think there are any problems regard copyright issues please contact us immediately via DMCA@publicdomain...read more

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9781517727819 | Createspace Independent Pub, October 8, 2015, cover price $7.99 | About this edition: Notice: This Book is published by Historical Books Limited (www.

9781517455095 | Createspace Independent Pub, September 22, 2015, cover price $7.99

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Product Description: It all begins next year in California. A maladjusted computer industry billionaire and a somewhat crazy US President initiate a radical transformation of the world through sentient nanotechnology; sort of the equivalent of biological artificial intelligence...read more

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9780765317414 | Tor Books, October 2, 2007, cover price $25.95 | About this edition: After a bizarre scheme on the part of a ruthless computer billionaire and a wacky U.

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9781517691271 | Createspace Independent Pub, October 7, 2015, cover price $12.99 | About this edition: It all begins next year in California.

9780765318725 | 1 reprint edition (Tor Books, February 3, 2009), cover price $21.99 | About this edition: It begins the day after next year in California.

The Superlative Light

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Product Description: Robert Shults' series of images draws upon the visual traditions of "grade B" science-fiction cinema in its exploration of a truly unique space where some of the most extreme conditions in the universe are recreated, recasting real working scientists as the heroes of an imaginary epic...read more

By Todd Ditmire (introduced by), Rudy Rucker and Robert Shults (photographer)

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9780989798129, titled "The Superlative Light: The Superlative Light" | Daylight Community Arts Foundation, November 30, 2014, cover price $39.95 | About this edition: Robert Shults' series of images draws upon the visual traditions of "grade B" science-fiction cinema in its exploration of a truly unique space where some of the most extreme conditions in the universe are recreated, recasting real working scientists as the heroes of an imaginary epic.

Spacetime Donuts

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Product Description: The birth of cyberpunk! A seaweed-smoking rebel becomes an incredible shrinking man. Under the bottom is the topâand the power to smash the Machine. After humanity becomes inextricably linked to the computers, a heroic couple makes a scale-ship journey beneath the smallest particles and through the largest cosmic structures, seeking a perfect world...read more

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9781497638440 | Open Road Media Sci-Fi & Fantasy, August 26, 2014, cover price $11.99 | About this edition: The birth of cyberpunk!

9780759285897 | E-Rights/E-Reads Ltd, November 30, 2008, cover price $15.95 | About this edition: A plugged-in rebel becomes the incredible shrinking man.

9780441777754 | Ace Books, September 1, 1981, cover price $2.50 | About this edition: A plugged-in rebel becomes the incredible shrinking man.

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Product Description: Punk-rock science fiction! Nuclear terrorists, a political kidnapping, and a giant woman from the fourth dimension. Say good-bye to the old world. This literary tour de force explores the landscape of the higher dimensions with the humor and vigor of an underground cartoon...read more

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9781497638433 | Open Road Media Sci-Fi & Fantasy, August 26, 2014, cover price $11.99 | About this edition: Punk-rock science fiction!

The Fourth Dimension: Toward a Geometry of Higher Reality

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A noted mathematician explores the metaphysical areas of modern physics and the fourth dimension to explain the history, geometry, and mysticism of a higher reality

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9780395344200 | Houghton Mifflin, September 1, 1984, cover price $17.95 | About this edition: A noted mathematician explores the metaphysical areas of modern physics and the fourth dimension to explain the history, geometry, and mysticism of a higher reality

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9780486779782, titled "The Fourth Dimension Toward a Geometry of Higher Reality" | Reprint edition (Dover Pubns, September 17, 2014), cover price $14.95

What the Doctor Ordered

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Product Description: Written over the course of three decades, these remarkable stories showcase the breadth and power of Michael Blumlein's vision. By turns prescient, poignant, haunting, and humorous, they consistently amaze and delight. They are celebrations: of science, of love, of partnership, of difference...read more

By Rudy Rucker (introduced by)

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9781613470572 | Consortium Book Sales & Dist, April 1, 2014, cover price $65.00 | About this edition: Written over the course of three decades, these remarkable stories showcase the breadth and power of Michael Blumlein's vision.

Mind Tools: The Five Levels of Mathematical Reality

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Explores postmodern mathematics, explains the five levels of reality, and discusses new realms such as gigaplexes, pixels, and Hibert space

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9780486492285 | Reprint edition (Dover Pubns, November 21, 2013), cover price $16.95

9780395468104 | Mariner Books, February 1, 1988, cover price $15.00 | About this edition: Explores postmodern mathematics, explains the five levels of reality, and discusses new realms such as gigaplexes, pixels, and Hibert space

Nested Scrolls: The Autobiography of Rudolf Von Bitter Rucker

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9780765327536 | Reprint edition (Tor Books, December 11, 2012), cover price $15.99

Complete Stories, Volume One

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Product Description: All of Rudy Rucker's science-fiction stories, a trove of gnarl and wonder in two volumes. Volume One includes stories from 1976 through 1995, ranging from the cyberpunk to the transreal. As well as Rucker's solo stories, we have collaborations with Bruce Sterling, Marc Laidlaw.

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9780984758562 | Gardners Books, September 1, 2012, cover price $27.05 | About this edition: All of Rudy Rucker's science-fiction stories, a trove of gnarl and wonder in two volumes.

Turing & Burroughs: A Beatnik Sf Novel

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Product Description: What if Alan Turing, founder of the modern computer age, escaped assassination by the secret service to become the lover of Beat author William Burroughs? What if they mutated into giant shapeshifting slugs, fled the FBI, raised Burroughsâs wife from the dead, and tweaked the H-bombs of Los Alamos? A wild beatnik adventure, compulsively readable, hysterically funny, with insane warps and twistsâand a bad attitude throughout...read more

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9780985827236 | Gardners Books, September 1, 2012, cover price $21.95 | About this edition: What if Alan Turing, founder of the modern computer age, escaped assassination by the secret service to become the lover of Beat author William Burroughs?

Surfing the Gnarl: Plus "The Men in the Back Room at the Country Club" and "Rapture in Space" and "Load on the Miracles and Keep a Straight Face"

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Product Description: Combining both the fiction and nonfiction of one of the most unique contemporary science fiction writers, this collection offers a rare look into Rudy Ruckerâs mind as an author and mathematician. Featuring an in-depth interview with Rucker about his ideas, politics, and how his career as a mathematician and scientist overlap with that of a bestselling author, this exclusive compilation is a must-have for any science fiction enthusiast...read more

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9781604863093 | Independent Pub Group, January 25, 2012, cover price $12.00 | About this edition: Combining both the fiction and nonfiction of one of the most unique contemporary science fiction writers, this collection offers a rare look into Rudy Ruckerâs mind as an author and mathematician.

Nested Scrolls: The Autobiography of Rudolph Von Bitter Rucker

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Product Description: Nested Scrolls reveals the true life adventures of Rudolf von Bitter âRudyâ Ruckerâmathematician, transrealist author, punk rocker, and computer hacker. It begins with aÂ young boy growing up in Louisville, Kentucky, the son of a businessman father who becomes a clergyman, and a mother descended from the philosopher Hegel...read more

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9780765327529 | Tor Books, December 6, 2011, cover price $25.99 | About this edition: Nested Scrolls reveals the true life adventures of Rudolf von Bitter âRudyâ Ruckerâmathematician, transrealist author, punk rocker, and computer hacker.

Jim and the Flims

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Product Description: Jim and the Flims is a novel set in Santa Cruz, CA... and the afterlife. Acclaimed cyberpunk/singularity author Rudy Rucker explores themes of death and destruction, in the wry, quirky style he is famous for.Jim Oster ruptures the membrane between our world and afterworld (AKA, The Flimsy), creating a two-way tunnel between them...read more

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9781597802802 | Nightshade Book, June 7, 2011, cover price $24.99 | About this edition: Jim and the Flims is a novel set in Santa Cruz, CA.

As Above, So Below: A Novel of Peter Bruegel

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This novel unveils the life and times of the sixteenth-century master as Bruegel and his companions, the cartographer Ortelius and Williblad Cheroo, an American Indian, make their way from Antwerp and Brussels to Rome.

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9780765304032 | Forge, November 1, 2002, cover price $23.95 | About this edition: This novel unveils the life and times of the sixteenth-century master as Bruegel and his companions, the cartographer Ortelius and Williblad Cheroo, an American Indian, make their way from Antwerp and Brussels to Rome.

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9781429939485 | 1 edition (Tor Forge, December 31, 2010), cover price $9.99

Jack and the Aktuals, Or, Physical Applications of Transfinite Set Theory: A Tor.com Original

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9781429952835 | Tor Books, July 20, 2010, cover price $0.99

The Hacker and the Ants

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When Jerzy Rugby's boss, Roger Coolidge, releases virus-like programs called 'ants' into his computer equipment, he finds himself in a huge mess when the ants are released into the global TV system and start to mutate

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9780688134167 | Avon Books, May 1, 1994, cover price $20.00 | About this edition: When Jerzy Rugby's boss, Roger Coolidge, releases virus-like programs called 'ants' into his computer equipment, he finds himself in a huge mess when the ants are released into the global TV system and start to mutate

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9780380718443 | Avon Books, May 1, 1995, cover price $4.99 | About this edition: A computer hacker working on a race of intelligent robots, Jerzy Rugby finds he has been made a scapegoat for an attack of electronic viral ants, and must pursue the plague until he encounters Death itself.

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9780786750344 | Running Pr Book Pub, July 21, 2009, cover price $15.95

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Product Description: In Rucker's last novel, Postsingular, the Singularity happened. Life on Earth has been transformed by the awakening of all matter into consciousness and telepathic communication. The most intimate moments of your life can be experienced by anyone who cares to pay attention, or by hundreds of thousands of anyones if you are one of the Founders who helped create the Singularity...read more

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9780765320742 | Tor Books, May 26, 2009, cover price $25.95 | About this edition: After the Singularity, everyone and everything is sentient and telepathic.

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9780765320759 | 1 reprint edition (Tor Books, June 8, 2010), cover price $21.99 | About this edition: In Rucker's last novel, Postsingular, the Singularity happened.

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9781429968607 | 1 edition (Tor Books, May 26, 2009), cover price $9.99

The Hollow Earth: The Narrative of Mason Algiers Reynolds of Virginia

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Fleeing his family's Virginia farm in the company of his father's slave and a companion dog, murder suspect Mason finds sanctuary in the home of his literary hero, Edgar Allan Poe, with whom he embarks on an expedition to the south pole. Original.

By Rudy Rucker (editor)

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9780688094133 | William Morrow & Co, July 1, 1990, cover price $18.95 | About this edition: Interweaving history with science fiction, this adventure--set in the pre-Civil War South--features Edgar Allan Poe and two cohorts exploring the exotic lands of Earth's core and discovering a parallel universe

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9781932265200 | Monkeybrain, December 15, 2006, cover price $15.95 | About this edition: Fleeing his family's Virginia farm in the company of his father's slave and a companion dog, murder suspect Mason finds sanctuary in the home of his literary hero, Edgar Allan Poe, with whom he embarks on an expedition to the south pole.

9780380755356 | Reprint edition (Avon Books, January 1, 1992), cover price $3.99 | About this edition: Interweaving history with science fiction, this adventure--set in the pre-Civil War South--features Edgar Allan Poe and two cohorts exploring the exotic lands of Earth's core and discovering a parallel universe

The Mad Professor: The Uncollected Short Stories of Rudy Rucker

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Product Description: At the untamed frontiers of intelligence, consciousness, matter, and reality lies Rudy Rucker's The Mad Professor, a collection of twelve mind-bending science fiction stories that probe the outer limits of possibility. Rucker, an accomplished computer scientist and mathematician with numerous science books and novels to his credit, brings his deep and varied knowledge of the mind, mathematics, and the ever-weird and wondrous workings of the physical universe to the stories collected here...read more

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9781560259749 | Running Pr Book Pub, December 20, 2006, cover price $15.95 | About this edition: At the untamed frontiers of intelligence, consciousness, matter, and reality lies Rudy Rucker's The Mad Professor, a collection of twelve mind-bending science fiction stories that probe the outer limits of possibility.

The Lifebox, the Seashell, And the Soul: What Gnarly Computation Taught Me About Ultimate Reality, the Meaning of Life, And How to Be Happy

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An explanation of a computation-based conception of reality offers insight into the universe's simple mathematical origins, revealing how today's computers have enabled a greater understanding of how the world works, in a volume that features humorous illustrative fables and a prediction about future evolutionary developments.

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9781560257226 | Basic Books, September 29, 2005, cover price $35.00 | About this edition: An explanation of a computation-based conception of reality offers insight into the universe's simple mathematical origins, revealing how today's computers have enabled a greater understanding of how the world works, in a volume that features humorous illustrative fables and a prediction about future evolutionary developments.

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9781560258988 | 1 edition (Basic Books, September 27, 2006), cover price $18.95

Infinity and the Mind: The Science and Philosophy of the Infinite

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9780691121277 | Princeton Univ Pr, November 1, 2004, cover price $35.00

9780691001722 | Princeton Univ Pr, May 1, 1995, cover price $22.95

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Visited by a dimension-hopping artificial intelligence named Hans, Paul Girard, a hapless middle-aged bookstore clerk, is given the ability to jump instantly to any world he can envision, and finds himself embarking on a zany, multi-dimensional odyssey in search of happiness, love, wealth, fame, and the mystery of the universe. Original.

By Paul Di Filippo and Rudy Rucker (introduced by)

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9780743498227 | Ibooks, October 1, 2004, cover price $11.95 | About this edition: Visited by a dimension-hopping artificial intelligence named Hans, Paul Girard, a hapless middle-aged bookstore clerk, is given the ability to jump instantly to any world he can envision, and finds himself embarking on a zany, multi-dimensional odyssey in search of happiness, love, wealth, fame, and the mystery of the universe.

Frek and the Elixir

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In the year 3003, Frek Huggins, the misfit child of dysfunctional parents, is warned by the alien inhabitant of the Anvil, a small flying saucer under his bed, that he is destined to save the world, a role that makes him the target of Gov, absolute ruler of Earth, and forces him and his talking dog, Wow, to seek out his long-lost father. Reprint. 10,000 first printing.

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9780765310583 | Tor Books, March 1, 2004, cover price $27.95 | About this edition: In the year 3003, Frek Huggins is warned by the alien inhabitant of the Anvil that he is destined to save the world, a role that makes him the target of Gov, absolute ruler of Earth, and forces him and his talking dog, Wow, to seek out his long-lost father.

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9780765310590 | Reprint edition (Tor Books, February 28, 2005), cover price $25.99 | About this edition: In the year 3003, Frek Huggins is warned by the alien inhabitant of the Anvil that he is destined to save the world, a role that makes him the target of Gov, absolute ruler of Earth, and forces him and his talking dog, Wow, to seek out his long-lost father.

As Above, So Below

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In a series of sixteen chapters, each of which is headed by one of the artist's famous masterpieces, the author of Freeware unveils the life and times of the great sixteenth-century master as Bruegel and his companions, the cartographer Ortelius and Williblad Cheroo, an American Indian, make their way from Antwerp and Brussels to Rome. Reprint. 15,000 first printing. (view table of contents)

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9780765304049 | Reprint edition (Forge, November 1, 2003), cover price $21.99 | About this edition: In a series of sixteen chapters, each of which is headed by one of the artist's famous masterpieces, the author of Freeware unveils the life and times of the great sixteenth-century master as Bruegel and his companions, the cartographer Ortelius and Williblad Cheroo, an American Indian, make their way from Antwerp and Brussels to Rome.

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