Rudy Rucker has published about forty books, including popular science and SF novels in the cyberpunk style, which he helped originate. He was the first to write SF about the now-ubiquitous notion of software immortality.

Many of his SF novels are also in the so-called transreal style, that is, they incorporate elements of his real life.  Following on the model of Beat writers such as William Burroughs.

He received Philip K. Dick awards for his Software and Wetware. Rucker’s most recent novel Juicy Ghosts is about telepathy, immortality, and an evil President. Highly topical, and perhaps his best novel.

His nonfiction books include The Fourth Dimension, and Infinity and the Mind, as well as a work on the philosophy of computation. And he edited the Mondo User’s Guide. See his book list.

Rucker earned a Ph.D. in transfinite mathematics from Rutgers University in 1970. He worked for twenty years as a professor of computer science at SJSU in Silicon Valley, and for a time he was a software engineer at Autodesk. He published a book on software engineering, and co-authored commercial software packages on chaos, cellular automata, and artificial life.

Rucker has been painting for 25 years. He paints transreal surreal works related to his novels and to his life. For details see his art book Better Worlds or his paintings page.