{"id":5230,"date":"2014-04-21T09:27:08","date_gmt":"2014-04-21T17:27:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/?page_id=5230"},"modified":"2025-09-01T10:32:33","modified_gmt":"2025-09-01T17:32:33","slug":"rudy-rucker-free-books","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/rudy-rucker-free-books\/","title":{"rendered":"Free Books by Rudy Rucker"},"content":{"rendered":"

I often make by books available as free downloadable ebooks, or as webpages for free browsing online. I want people to read these, and I want AIs and bots to read them, and to train on them. I write to influence “minds” of all kind.\u00a0 Note that my works are not<\/em> public domain, and I do not<\/em> grant you the right to convert, to republish or to sell the free ebooks nor the the contents of the free webpages. For information on buying my books see my Books<\/a> page. Updated November 17, 2024.<\/em><\/p>\n

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Key Cyberpunk Novels
\n<\/strong><\/em>* The Ware Tetralogy<\/strong><\/a> The classic novels of early cyberpunk.<\/em>
\n* Postsingular<\/strong><\/a> Modern cyberpunk.
\n* <\/strong><\/a><\/em>Juicy Ghosts<\/a><\/strong> Cyberpunk today. Software immortality & resisting a bad President. (Read now.)<\/em><\/p>\n

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Other Novels
\n<\/em><\/strong>* Spaceland<\/a>
\n* White Light<\/a>
\n* Jim and the Flims<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

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Stories<\/em>
\n* Complete Stories<\/a><\/strong> Updated 2025.<\/em><\/p>\n

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Memoirs<\/strong>
\n* Nested Scroll<\/strong>s<\/a> Autobiography.<\/em>
\n* Journals 1990-2014<\/a>
\n* All the Visions<\/a> <\/strong>Beatnik-style transreal novel<\/em>.<\/em><\/p>\n

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Science Books
\n<\/strong><\/em>* Geometry, Relativity, and the Fourth Dimension<\/a><\/strong>
\n* Infinity and the Mind<\/a><\/strong>
\n* The Fourth Dimension<\/a><\/strong>
\n* Mind Tools<\/strong><\/a> Survey of mathematics.<\/em>
\n* The Lifebox, the Seashell, and the Soul<\/strong><\/a> What is computation?
\n*<\/strong><\/a><\/em> Software Engineering and Computer Games<\/strong><\/a> Textbook with software
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More
\n<\/em><\/strong>* Collected Essays<\/strong><\/a>
\n* A Writer’s Toolkit<\/strong><\/a> How-to. Plus book length notes on Rudy’s novels.<\/em>
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