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Rudy Rucker's Transreal! is a complete collection of his short work &emdash; fiction, non-fiction, and poetry, plus AUthor's Notes &emdash; as of 1990.
Originally published in 1991 by WCS Books in two editions:
- a trade paperback (shown at left)
BACK IN PRINT as of May 2003
(four unopened cases of the original first edition, first printing, were discovered recently);
- a full-cloth hardcover limited to 350 copies, signed
by Rudy Rucker plus all four collaborators and
contributors -- Paul Di Filippo, Bruce Sterling,Robert
Sheckley, & Marc Laidlaw;
Note: as issued, with large foil-stamping on white cloth cover, and no dustjacket.
Weighing in at well over 500 pages, Transreal! includes all of Rudy Rucker's short fiction (as of 1991) and poetry, plus most of his essays, with artwork throughout by the author. Transreal! also includes collaborations with Paul Di Filippo ("Instability"), Marc Laidlaw ("Probability Pipeline"), and Bruce Sterling ("Storming the Cosmos"), and an Introduction by Robert Sheckley. All of the stories in Rudy Rucker's earlier (out of print) collection, The 57th Franz Kafka, are included in Transreal!
Transreal! by Rudy Rucker is organized into four sections, plus an introduction and a section of Author's Notes.
Introduction by Robert Sheckley
Book One: Light Fuse and Get Away Poems 1975-1982:
Book Two: The 57th Franz Kafka Stories 1980-1983: The 57th Franz Kafka • Schrödinger's Cat • A New Golden Age • Jumpin' Jack Flash • Sufferin' Succotash • Faraway Eyes • The Indian Rope Trick Explained • A New Experiment With Time • The Man Who Ate Himself • The Facts of Life • Tales of Houdini • Buzz • The Last Einstein-Rosen Bridge • Pac-Man • Pi in the Sky • Inertia • Message Found in a Copy of Flatland • The Jack Kerouac Disembodied School of Poetics
Book Three: Weird Screens Stories 1984-1990: Monument to the Third International • Storming the Cosmos (by Rudy Rucker & Bruce Sterling) • In Frozen Time • Room to Grow • Soft Death • Bringing In the Sheaves • Plastic Letters • Inside Out • Enlightenment Rabies • The Man Who Was A Cosmic String • Probability Pipeline (by Rudy Rucker & Marc Laidlaw) • Instability (by Rudy Rucker & Paul Di Filippo) • Wishloop • As Above, So Below • Rapture In Space
Book Four: Some of the Dharma Selected Essays 1982-1989: Drugs and Live Sex -- NYC 1980 • The Central Teachings of Mysticism • A Transrealist Manifesto • Phil Dick Lives, 1983 and 1986 • What SF Writers Want • What Is Cyberpunk? • Access to Tools • Jerry's Neighbors • Report From Silicon Valley • "Bob"'s Three Miracles and "Me" • Trip to Japan, 1990
You may order this book from Mark V. Ziesing.
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