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{{Short description|American novelist (born 1946)}}
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'''Rudolf von Bitter Rucker''' ({{IPAc-en|ˈ|r|ʌ|k|ər}}; born March 22, 1946) is an American [[mathematician]],<ref>{{cite web|work=[[The New York Times]]|date=May 4, 1997|title=Science Fiction|first=Gerald|last=Jonas|url=https://www.nytimes.com/books/97/05/04/reviews/970504.scifi.html}}</ref> computer scientist, [[science fiction]] author,<ref>{{cite web|work=[[The New York Times]]|title=Interstellar Serial Killer|first=Gerald|last=Jonas|date=September 12, 2004|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2004/09/12/books/review/12SCIFIL.html}}</ref> and one of the founders of the [[cyberpunk]] literary movement. The author of both fiction and non-fiction, he is best known for the novels in the [[Ware Tetralogy]], the first two of which (''[[Software (novel)|Software]]'' and ''[[Wetware (novel)|Wetware]]'') both won [[Philip K. Dick Award]]s. Until its closure in 2014 heHe edited the science fiction [[webzine]] ''[[Flurb]]'' until its closure in 2014.
 
==Early life==
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Thanks to a grant from the [[Alexander von Humboldt Foundation]], Rucker taught at the [[Ruprecht Karl University of Heidelberg]] from 1978 to 1980. He then taught at [[Randolph-Macon Women's College]] in [[Lynchburg, Virginia]] from 1980 to 1982, before trying his hand as a full-time author for four years.
 
Inspired by an interview with [[Stephen Wolfram]],<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.hplusmagazine.com/articles/ai/wolframalpha-searching-truth |title=Rudy Rucker interviews Stephen Wolfram|access-date=April 8, 2009-04-08}}</ref> Rucker became a computer science professor at [[San José State University]] in 1986, from which he retired as [[professor emeritus]] in 2004.<ref>{{cite journal|title=Everything Is Alive|first=Rudy|last= Rucker|date= January 20, 2008|citeseerx=10.1.1.92.2841}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=Rudy Rucker|url=http://www.locusmag.com/2005/Issues/09Rucker.html|work=[[Locus (magazine)|Locus]]}}</ref>
 
From 1988 to 1992 he was hired by [[John Walker (programmer)|John Walker]] of [[Autodesk]] as a programmer of [https://www.fourmilab.ch/cellab/ cellular automata], which inspired his book ''[[The Hacker and the Ants]]''.
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==Personal life==
Rucker was the roommate of [[Kenneth Turan]] during his freshman year at Swarthmore College.<ref>{{cite book |last=Rucker |first=Rudy |date=December 11, 2012 |title=Nested Scrolls: The Autobiography of Rudolf von Bitter Rucker |location=New York, NY |isbn=978-0765327536 }}</ref> In 1967, Rucker married Sylvia Bogsch Rucker (1943–2023).<ref>{{cite book |last=Rucker |first=Rudy |date=December 11, 2012 |title=Nested Scrolls: The Autobiography of Rudolf von Bitter Rucker |location=New York, NY |page=105 |isbn=978-0765327536 }}</ref><ref>[https://www.legacy.com/us/obituaries/losgatan/name/sylvia-rucker-obituary?id=38679111 ''Sylvia Rucker obituary''].</ref> Together they have three children.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.rudyrucker.com/journals/biophotos/ |title=Photos for Rudy Rucker, JOURNALS 1990-2014 |last1=Rucker |first1=Rudy |date=2015 |website=Rudy Rucker |access-date=14 June 14, 2015}}</ref> On July 1, 2008, Rucker suffered a [[cerebral hemorrhage]]. Thinking he maymight not be around much longer, this prompted him to write ''Nested Scrolls'', his autobiography.<ref>{{cite book |last=Rucker |first=Rudy |date=December 11, 2012 |title=Nested Scrolls: The Autobiography of Rudolf von Bitter Rucker |location=New York, NY |page=3 |isbn=978-0765327536 }}</ref>
 
Rucker resided in [[Highland Park, New Jersey]] during his graduate studies at Rutgers University.<ref>Rucker, Rudy van Bitter. [https://books.google.com/books?id=bWwfAQAAIAAJ&q=%22Rudy+Rucker%22+%22highland+park%22 ''All the visions''], p. 102. Ocean View Books, 1991. {{ISBN|9780938075097}}. Accessed February 28, 2018. "Audrey and I were newlyweds there in Highland Park, and we used to watch ''The Newlywed Game'' on TV every week."</ref>
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*''Realware'' (2000)
 
'''Transreal Trilogy'''<ref>{{cite web|title=Transreal Trilogy|url=http://www.rudyrucker.com/transrealtrilogy/|accessdate=2021-06-June 22, 2021}}</ref>{{refn|group=Notes|Arranged in the order of the events they describe.}}
*''The Secret of Life'' (1985)
*''[[White Light (novel)|White Light]]'' (1980)
*''Saucer Wisdom'' (1999) novel marketed as non-fiction
 
'''Transreal novels'''<ref>{{cite web|author=Rucker, Rudy|title=Timeline for My Transreal Novels|url=http://www.rudyrucker.com/blog/2013/09/01/timeline-for-my-transreal-novels/|website=Rudy's Blog |date=September 2013 |accessdate=2021-06-June 22, 2021}}</ref>
*''[[Spacetime Donuts]]'' (1981)
*''The Sex Sphere'' (1983)
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|Schrödinger's Cat
|1981-03-30
|''Analog Science Fiction/Science Fact'', March 30, 1981<ref>{{cite journal |author=Rucker, Rudy |journal=Analog Science Fiction/Science Fact |title=Schrödinger's Cat |volume=101 |issue=4 |date=30 March 30, 1981 |page=70}}</ref>
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|A Dream of Flatland
|2002-02-18
|''Infinite Matrix'', 18 February 18, 2002<ref>{{cite web |author=Rucker, Rudy |website=The Infinite Matrix |url=http://www.infinitematrix.net/stories/excerpts/spaceland1.html |title=A Dream of Flatland (Part 1) |date=18 February 18, 2002 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20020126194113/http://www.infinitematrix.net/stories/excerpts/spaceland1.html |accessdate=2021-08-August 28, 2021|archive-date=January 26, 2002 }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |author=Rucker, Rudy |website=The Infinite Matrix |url=http://www.infinitematrix.net/stories/excerpts/spaceland2.html |title=A Dream of Flatland (Part 2) |date=18 February 18, 2002 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20020220042004/http://www.infinitematrix.net/stories/excerpts/spaceland2.html |accessdate=2021-08-August 28, 2021|archive-date=February 20, 2002 }}</ref>
|Fifth chapter of ''Spaceland''.
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|Jenna and Me
|2003-02-11
|''Infinite Matrix'', 11 February 11, 2003<ref>{{cite web |author1=Rucker, Rudy |author2=Rucker Jr., Rudy |url=http://www.infinitematrix.net/stories/shorts/jenna_and_me.html |title=Jenna and Me |website=The Infinite Matrix |date=11 February 11, 2003 |accessdate=2021-07-July 22, 2021}}</ref>
|Written with Rudy Rucker Jr.
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|The Men in the Back Room at the Country Club
|2005-12-30
|''Infinite Matrix'', 30 December 30, 2005<ref>{{cite web |author=Rucker, Rudy |url=http://www.infinitematrix.net/stories/shorts/men_in_bracc.html |title=The Men in the Back Room at the Country Club |website=The Infinite Matrix |date=30 December 30, 2005 |accessdate=2021-07-July 20, 2021}}</ref>
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|Panpsychism Proved
|2006-01-26
|''Nature'', 26 January 26, 2006<ref>{{cite journal |author=Rucker, Rudy |title=Panpsychism Proved |journal=Nature |volume=439 |issue=7075 |date=26 January 26, 2006 |page=508 |doi=10.1038/439508a |bibcode=2006Natur.439..508R |s2cid=33335830 |doi-access=free }}</ref><ref>{{cite journal |author=Rucker, Rudy |journal=Nature |url=https://www.nature.com/articles/439508a.pdf |title=Panpsychism Proved |volume=439 |issue=7075 |date=26 January 26, 2006 |page=508|doi=10.1038/439508a |bibcode=2006Natur.439..508R |s2cid=33335830 |doi-access=free }}</ref>
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|Elves of the Subdimensions
|2006-08-29
|''Flurb'', Fall 2006<ref>{{cite journal |author1=Rucker, Rudy |author2=Di Filippo, Paul |journal=Flurb |url=http://flurb.rudyrucker.com/1/ruckerdifilippo.htm |title=Elves of the Subdimensions |issue=1 |date=25 March 25, 2006 |accessdate=2021-07-July 19, 2021}}</ref>
|Written with Paul Di Filippo.
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|The Third Bomb
|2006-12-19
|''Flurb'', Winter 2006<ref>{{cite journal |author=Rucker, Rudy |journal=Flurb |url=http://flurb.rudyrucker.com/2/ruckerbomb.htm |title=The Third Bomb |issue=2 |date=19 December 19, 2006 |accessdate=2021-07-July 18, 2021}}</ref>
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|Postsingular Outtakes
|2007-04-23
|''Flurb'', Spring–Summer 2007<ref>{{cite journal |author=Rucker, Rudy |journal=Flurb |url=http://flurb.rudyrucker.com/3/3rucker.htm |title=Postsingular Outtakes |issue=3 |date=23 April 23, 2007 |accessdate=2021-08-August 28, 2021}}</ref>
|Outtakes drawn from the author's working notes for ''Postsingular''.<ref>{{cite web |author=Rucker, Rudy |url=http://www.rudyrucker.com/pdf/postsingularnotesposted.pdf |title=Postsingular Writing Notes |date=25 May 25, 2007}}</ref>
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|Hieronymus Bosch's Apprentice
|2007-09-19
|''Flurb'', Fall–Winter 2007<ref>{{cite journal |author=Rucker, Rudy |journal=Flurb |url=http://flurb.rudyrucker.com/4/4rucker.htm |title=Hieronymus Bosch's Apprentice |issue=4 |date=2007-09-September 19, 2007 |accessdate=2021-08-August 26, 2021}}</ref>
|Fifth chapter of ''Hylozoic''.
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|Tangier Routines
|2008-03-31
|''Flurb'', Spring–Summer 2008<ref>{{cite journal |author=Rucker, Rudy |journal=Flurb |url=http://flurb.rudyrucker.com/5/5rucker.htm |title=Tangier Routines |issue=5 |date=31 August 31, 2008 |accessdate=2021-07-July 17, 2021}}</ref>
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|Qlone
|2008-09-16
|''Flurb'', Fall–Winter 2008<ref>{{cite journal |author=Rucker, Rudy |journal=Flurb |url=http://flurb.rudyrucker.com/6/6rucker.htm |title=Qlone |issue=6 |date=16 September 16, 2008 |accessdate=2021-07-July 17, 2021}}</ref>
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|Jack and the Aktuals, or, Physical Applications of Transfinite Set Theory
|2008-10-09
|''Tor.com'', 9 October 9, 2009<ref>{{cite web |author=Rucker, Rudy |url=https://www.tor.com/2008/10/09/jackandtheaktuals/ |title=Jack and the Aktuals, or, Physical Applications of Transfinite Set Theory |website=Tor.com |date=9 October 9, 2009 |accessdate=2021-07-July 17, 2021}}</ref>
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|All Hangy
|2009-03-03
|''Flurb'', Spring–Summer 2009<ref>{{cite journal |author1=Rucker, Rudy |author2=Shirley, John |journal=Flurb |url=http://flurb.rudyrucker.com/7/7ruckershirley.htm |title=All Hangy |issue=7 |date=3 March 3, 2009 |accessdate=2021-07-July 17, 2021}}</ref>
|Written with John Shirley.
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|Bad Ideas
|2009-09-08
|''Flurb'', Fall–Winter 2009<ref>{{cite journal |author=Rucker, Rudy |journal=Flurb |url=http://flurb.rudyrucker.com/8/8rucker.htm |title=Bad Ideas |issue=8 |date=8 September 8, 2009 |accessdate=2021-07-July 16, 2021}}</ref>
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|Val and Me
|2010-03-08
|''Flurb'', Spring–Summer 2010<ref>{{cite journal |author=Rucker, Rudy |journal=Flurb |url=http://flurb.rudyrucker.com/9/9rucker.htm |title=Val and Me |issue=9 |date=March 8, 2010-03-08 |accessdate=2021-08-August 26, 2021}}</ref>
|First, second and third chapter of ''Jim and the Flims''.
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|Good Night, Moon
|2010-10-13
|''Tor.com'', 13 October 13, 2010<ref>{{cite web |author1=Rucker, Rudy |author2=Sterling, Bruce |url=https://www.tor.com/2010/10/13/good-night-moon/ |title=Good Night, Moon |website=Tor.com |date=13 October 13, 2010 |accessdate=2021-07-July 14, 2021}}</ref>
|Written with Bruce Sterling.
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|The Skug
|2010-08-31
|''Flurb'', Fall–Winter 2010<ref>{{cite journal |author=Rucker, Rudy |journal=Flurb |url=http://flurb.rudyrucker.com/10/rucker10.htm |title=The Skug |issue=10 |date=2010-08-August 31, 2010 |accessdate=2021-08-August 26, 2021}}</ref>
|Second chapter of ''Turing & Burroughs''.
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|Fjaerland
|2011-09-06
|''Flurb'', Fall–Winter 2011<ref>{{cite journal |author1=Rucker, Rudy |author2=DiPilippo, Paul |journal=Flurb |url=http://flurb.rudyrucker.com/12/12ruckerdifilippo.htm |title=Fjaerland |issue=12 |date=6 September 6, 2011 |accessdate=2021-07-July 13, 2021}}</ref>
|Written with Paul DiFilippo.
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|Dispatches from Interzone
|2011-03-22
|''Flurb'', Spring–Summer 2011<ref>{{cite journal |author=Rucker, Rudy |journal=Flurb |url=http://flurb.rudyrucker.com/11/11rucker.htm |title=Dispatches from Interzone |issue=11 |date=22 March 22, 2011 |accessdate=2021-08-August 26, 2021}}</ref>
|Eighth chapter of ''Turing & Burroughs''.
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|Loco
|2012-06-20
|''Tor.com'', 20 June 20, 2012<ref>{{cite web |author1=Rucker, Rudy |author2=Sterling, Bruce |url=https://www.tor.com/2012/06/20/loco/ |title=Loco |website=Tor.com |date=20 June 20, 2012 |accessdate=2021-06-June 25, 2021}}</ref>
|Written with Bruce Sterling.
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|Jane and the Roadspider
|2012-03-23
|''Flurb'', Spring 2012<ref>{{cite journal |author=Rucker, Rudy |journal=Flurb |url=http://flurb.rudyrucker.com/13/13rucker.htm |title=Jane and the Roadspider |issue=13 |date=23 March 23, 2012 |accessdate=2021-08-August 26, 2021}}</ref>
|Second chapter of ''The Big Aha''.
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|I Arise Again
|2013-01
|''Communications of the ACM'', January 2013<ref>{{cite journal |author=Rucker, Rudy |journal=Communications of the ACM |url=https://cacm.acm.org/magazines/2013/1/158769-future-tense-share-my-enlightenment/fulltext |title=Share My Enlightenment |volume=56 |issue=1 |date=January 2013 |pages=136–ff |doi=10.1145/2398356.2398382 |s2cid=29688349 |accessdate=July 2, 2021-07-02}}</ref>
|Originally published as "Share My Enlightenment" and it slightly differs from the version that appears in the ''Complete Stories'' under the title "I Arise Again".
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|Apricot Lane
|2013-05
|''An Aura of Familiarity'', Institute for the Future, May 2013<ref>{{cite web |author=Rucker, Rudy |url=https://www.iftf.org/fanfutures/rucker/ |title=Apricot Lane |website=IFTF |date=May 2013 |accessdate=2021-06-June 30, 2021}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal |author=Rucker, Rudy |journal=An Aura of Familiarity |url=https://www.iftf.org/fileadmin/user_upload/downloads/th/IFTF_SR-1590C__AnAuraOfFamiliarity.pdf |title=Apricot Lane |date=May 2013 |pages=15–29}}</ref>
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|Where the Lost Things Are
|2014-11-05
|''Tor.com'', 5 November 5, 2014<ref>{{cite web |author1=Rucker, Rudy |author2=Bisson, Terry |url=https://www.tor.com/2014/11/05/where-the-lost-things-are-rudy-rucker-terry-bisson/ |title=Where the Lost Things Are |website=Tor.com |date=5 November 5, 2014 |accessdate=July 1, 2021-07-01}}</ref>
|Written with Terry Bisson.
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|Attack of the Giant Ants
|2014-12-09
|''Terraform'', December 2014<ref>{{cite web |author=Rucker, Rudy |url=https://www.vice.com/en/article/78x74d/attack-of-the-giant-ants-rudy-rucker |title=Attack of the Giant Ants |website=Terraform |date=9 December 9, 2014 |accessdate=2021-06-June 25, 2021}}</ref>
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|Totem Poles
|2016-08-10
|''Tor.com'', 10 August 10, 2016<ref>{{cite web |author1=Rucker, Rudy |author2=Sterling, Bruce |url=https://www.tor.com/2016/08/10/totem-poles/ |title=Totem Poles |website=Tor.com |date=10 August 10, 2016 |accessdate=2021-06-June 29, 2021}}</ref>
|Written with Bruce Sterling.
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|Like a Sea Cucumber
|2015-06-30
|''Terraform'', June 2015<ref>{{cite web |author=Rucker, Rudy |url=https://www.vice.com/en/article/z4m958/like-a-sea-cucumber |title=Like a Sea Cucumber |website=Terraform |date=30 June 30, 2015 |accessdate=2021-06-June 25, 2021}}</ref>
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|Fat Stream
|2017-08-21
|''Mondo2000.com'', 21 August 21, 2017<ref>{{cite web |author=Rucker, Rudy |url=https://www.mondo2000.com/2017/08/21/fat-stream-short-story/ |title=Fat Stream |website=Mondo2000.com |date=21 August 21, 2017 |accessdate=2021-06-June 25, 2021}}</ref>
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|2018-01
|''Asimov's Science Fiction'', January 2018<ref>{{cite journal |author1=Rucker, Rudy |author2=Di Filippo, Paul |journal=Asimov's Science Fiction |title=In The Lost City of Leng |volume=42 |issue=1 & 2 |date=January 2018 |pages=34–67}}</ref>
|Written with Paul Di Filippo.<br />According to the Rudy Rucker's notes from February 15, 2017, the working title was "The Plateau of Leng".<ref>{{cite web |author=Rucker, Rudy |url=http://www.rudyrucker.com/blog/2017/12/28/rudy-paul-di-fi-in-lovecrafts-lost-city-of-leng/ |title=Rudy & Paul Di Filippo in Lovecraft's "Lost City of Leng" |website=Rudy's Blog |date=December 2017 |accessdate=2021-06-June 23, 2021}}</ref>
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|Juicy Ghost
|2019-06-24
|''Rudy's Blog'', 24 June 24, 2019<ref>{{cite web |author=Rucker, Rudy |url=http://www.rudyrucker.com/blog/2019/06/24/juicy-ghost/ |title=Juicy Ghost |website=Rudy's Blog |date=24 June 24, 2019 |accessdate=2021-06-June 21, 2021}}</ref>
|Third chapter of ''Juicy Ghosts''.<br />Reprinted in ''Big Echo'', October 2019.<ref>{{cite journal |author=Rucker, Rudy |journal=Big Echo |url=http://www.bigecho.org/juicy-ghost |title=Juicy Ghost |issue=13 |date=October 2019 |accessdate=2021-06-June 25, 2021}}</ref><br />Rewritten in September 2020 and published in the author's blog.<ref>{{cite web |author=Rucker, Rudy |url=http://www.rudyrucker.com/blog/2020/09/24/juicy-ghosts-2020/ |title=Juicy Ghost |website=Rudy's Blog |date=24 September 24, 2020 |accessdate=2021-06-June 21, 2021}}</ref>
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|The Mean Carrot
|2020-03
|''Big Echo'', March 2020<ref>{{cite journal |author=Rucker, Rudy |journal=Big Echo |url=http://www.bigecho.org/the-mean-carrot |title=The Mean Carrot |issue=15 |date=March 2020 |accessdate=2021-06-June 25, 2021}}</ref>
|First chapter of ''Juicy Ghosts''.
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|Everything Is Everything
|2020-10
|''Big Echo'', October 2020<ref>{{cite journal |author=Rucker, Rudy |journal=Big Echo |url=http://www.bigecho.org/everything-is-everything |title=Everything Is Everything |issue=17 |date=October 2020 |accessdate=2021-06-June 25, 2021}}</ref>
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|2021-03
|''Asimov's Science Fiction'', March/April 2021<ref>{{cite journal |author=Rucker, Rudy |journal=Asimov's Science Fiction |title=Mary Mary |volume=45 |issue=3 & 4 |date=March–April 2021 |pages=112–137}}</ref>
|Fourth chapter of ''Juicy Ghosts''.<br />According to the author's blog post, an early title was "Mary Falls".<ref>{{cite web |author=Rucker, Rudy |url=http://www.rudyrucker.com/blog/2020/02/14/lifebox-server/ |title=New Story. Where Does Your Lifebox Live? |website=Rudy's Blog |date=14 February 14, 2020 |accessdate=2021-07-July 27, 2021}}</ref>
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|''Asimov's Science Fiction'', July/August 2021<ref>{{cite journal |author1=Rucker, Rudy |author2=Sterling, Bruce |journal=Asimov's Science Fiction |title=Fibonacci's Humors |volume=45 |issue=7 & 8 |date=July–August 2021 |pages=130–150}}</ref>
|Written with Bruce Sterling.
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|Petroglyph Man
|2015-07
|{{cite journal |author=Rucker, Rudy |date=July 2015 |title=Petroglyph Man |journal=Asimov's Science Fiction |volume=39 |issue=7 |pages=60–68}}
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