Free Books by Rudy Rucker
I sometimes make by books available as free downloadable ebooks, or as webpages for free browsing online. Keep on eye on this page. Note that I do not grant you the right to convert, to republish or to sell the free ebooks or the contents of the free webpages. For information on buying my books see my Books page. Updated December 5, 2021.
Free Cyberpunk Novels
♦ The Ware Tetralogy Download ebook or read as webpage.
♦ Postsingular Download ebook or read as webpage.
Read Books as Free Webpages
Novels
♦ Spaceland
♦ White Light
♦ Jim and the Flims
Stories
♦ Complete Stories Updated 2021.
Memoirs
♦ Nested Scrolls Autobiography.
♦ Journals 1990-2014
♦ All the Visions Beatnik-style transreal novel.
Science Books
♦ Geometry, Relativity, and the Fourth Dimension
♦ Infinity and the Mind
♦ The Fourth Dimension
♦ Mind Tools Survey of mathematics.
♦ The Lifebox, the Seashell, and the Soul What is computation?
♦ Software Engineering and Computer Games Textbook with software
More
♦ Collected Essays
♦ A Writer’s Toolkit How-to. Plus book length notes on Rudy’s novels.
April 29th, 2014 at 4:29 pm
I’m a huge fan of your writing and your ideas, Mr. Rucker. This is an extremely generous thing to do and I hope you will be rewarded many times over for it!
May 25th, 2014 at 5:17 am
gimme gimme more in my Brain hole..leznerizr till I Stay Hi..luv it till I die and then some…too good to be tru! free me, slackme, rude me, crack me,,,Stay Hi fer ever……feed me head til I DEAD!!
September 13th, 2014 at 5:07 am
I’m wondering about the fourth reason. Is it altruism or some sort of Chinese disdain for the number 4?
September 13th, 2014 at 6:30 am
Oops, Greg, I’d misnumbered the reasons. Sometimes I revise a page and put IN mistakes.
October 20th, 2014 at 8:34 am
Thanks for making your work available like this. I do really appreciate it, and I am sure to pick up a hardcopy or two when I see them now.
April 21st, 2015 at 6:10 am
Hi Rudy, Thanks for all the access to your thoughts. I was sharing some references to you in discussion with a friend about Augustine’s thoughts on time, and my friends meanderings on space and time, past and future. I noted that the wikip. article about you stated, “His non-fiction book, The Lifebox, the Seashell, and the Soul: What Gnarly Computation Taught Me About Ultimate Reality, the Meaning Of Life, and How To Be Happy summarizes the various philosophies he’s believed over the years and ends with the tentative conclusion that we might profitably view the world as made of computations, with the final remark, “perhaps this universe is perfect.”
Doesn’t the view that the universe is (perhaps) perfect, suffer from a similar problem as the idea of God, that “he/she/it” can’t be both all-powerful, all knowing and all powerful, because an all powerful, all loving God would not permit suffering? Or maybe perfection is an asymptote, always strived for, but never achieved? So maybe believers are worshiping (or idolizing?! an asymptote?! How can a perfect universe be so full of pain and suffering? This reminds me of an essay by Stanislaw Lem in his book “One Human Minute” that I read some 20+ years ago, about how the universe creates using destruction.
Which brings me back to your book on infinity and the mind. For me, one of the most interesting passages was your insight into how Goedel’s Incompleteness Theorems opens up the world to the possibility of freedom, which to me is similar to how the Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle does the same in physics.
But the price of that freedom, for us at least, as time-space-data-intelligence limited beings, seems to be to be locked out of the “paradise” of knowing all, with, perhaps, Cantor, Goedel, and Heisenberg standing at the gates.
December 29th, 2016 at 10:14 pm
I have a notion…
that the …ware collection is incomplete..
Etherware…
some elements of human existence…
are not physical…
hope..
dreams..
knowledge..
understanding..
wisdom..
love..
everything that no longer exist…
in a lifeless corpse…
all of which defy the laws of physics..
they increase…
defying entropy…
September 2nd, 2017 at 12:18 pm
Thank you for the cc books. I’ve not yet read ‘The Big Aha’ or ‘Postsingular’ and am looking forward to reading them.
January 4th, 2019 at 8:44 am
Just reread my copy of _Mindtools_ many years after reading it the first time and wondering how Rudy managed to insert so much new material in a book that’s already been published?
January 4th, 2019 at 10:20 am
Glad you reread Mind Tools, Corey. Not only is Mind Tools out there as one of my webpages, but it’s also in print from Dover Books in ebook and paperback. https://www.amazon.com/Mind-Tools-Levels-Mathematical-Reality/dp/0486492281/
As for the “new material” you notice…well, that’s a matter of the scales having fallen from people’s eyes over the thirty-some years since I first published the book! Thankd for remarking on that. I was a 21st C author all along.
May 23rd, 2019 at 7:01 pm
I am so enjoying Turing and Burroughs right now. Ordered Million Year and will be getting all the others from Night Shade. What a great set. Hey Kids, collect ’em all! So cute and adorable. So excited to be pulled into Ruckerland again. And much thanks for signing my books at World Con 2018. Peace.
January 28th, 2023 at 3:43 pm
This is a great website. Thank you for putting some of your books up here for free. I enjoy attempting to explain Transrealism to some of my students at University of Houston. How to use the concept in visual art. Thank you again!
Cheers,
Markus
January 28th, 2023 at 3:47 pm
This is a great website. Thank you for putting some of your books up here for free. I enjoy attempting to explain Transrealism to some of my students at University of Houston. How to use the concept in visual art. Thank you again!
Cheers,
Markus
August 26th, 2023 at 1:45 pm
Thanks so much Mr Rudy. I’m currently a student studying mechanical engineering and have much passion in written. I’m currently working on a book title the dark nine planet. It’s a science fiction book which have been using your guidance and content writing method to write it.
Thanks for inspiring me.