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Transreal Trilogy
What is "transrealism"? Your usual life, only it's an SF novel! The Secret of Life: A 60s college student learns he's a saucer alien. White Light: A hipster math professor travels to the afterworld. Saucer Wisdom: A cult author tries to write about alien abductions. Rudy Rucker should be declared a National Treasure of American Science Fiction. -William Gibson Rudy Rucker is the most consistently brilliant imagination working in SF today-Charles Stross
Transreal Cyberpunk
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 Valley, and the death of the Universe. With notes by the authors and an introduction by Rob Latham.
Transreal!
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The Transreal
The Transreal: Political Aesthetics of Crossing Realities explores the use of multiple simultaneous realities as a medium in contemporary art, including mixed reality, augmented reality and alternate reality approaches. Building on the notion of "trans" from transgender, signifying the crossing of boundaries, the book proposes that transreal aesthetics cross the boundaries created by a proliferation of conceptions of reality that occurred as a result of postmodern theory and emerging technologies.
All the Visions
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Notes for the Big Aha
"Notes for The Big Aha" documents two years of writing a novel, and describes Rucker's transition to new modes of publishing. Amusing, inspiring, and worldly wise, these writing notes may prove useful and encouraging for your own creative work, as well as enhancing your appreciation of the novel, "The Big Aha." This deluxe collector's hardback edition includes 35 illustrations, 12 of them in color.
Saucer Wisdom
A cult novelist named Rudy Rucker investigates an alien abduction...and is drawn into freaky, transreal scenes. Futurism, autobiographical novel, a tour of Californai freakdom, and richly funny. With many, many line-drawing illos. "Rucker’s sensibility is a combination of gonzo humor, fictionalized autobiography in the Kerouacian mode (what Rucker calls “transrealism”), and the sheer, bugs-in-your-teeth thrill of scientific extrapolation taken to blitz-punk extremes." — Salon.com.
Juicy Ghosts
"Juicy Ghosts" is a fast-paced adventure novel, with startling science, engaging dialog-and a happy ending. The novel treats near-future versions of telepathy and immortality. It's also a redemptive political tale, reacting to the chaos of the 2020 US presidential election. The tone is hip, bright, and darkly comic, with generous helpings of Rucker's SF surrealism. Romances interweave the tale.
Transrealist Fiction
Transrealist writing treats immediate perceptions in a fantastic way, according to science fiction writer and mathematician Rudy Rucker, who originated the term. In the expanded sense argued in this book, it also intensifies imaginative fiction by writing the fantastic from the standpoint of richly personalized experience. Transrealism is also related to slipstream writing, another category introduced into studies of speculative fiction to account for texts that seem to follow trajectories mapped by the huge body of science fiction accumulated in the last century, while retaining a central interest in traditional literary strategies. This book examines a variety of work from the transrealist perspective, something that has not been done previously. It emphasizes the texts of Philip K. Dick and Rucker himself, while it additionally engages the texts of such slipstream writers as Kurt Vonnegut, J.G. Ballard, and John Barth. It places its argument against the antihumanist trend in science fiction and builds comparisons with more traditional varieties of science fiction works.
