All of Rudy Rucker's science-fiction stories, a trove of gnarl and wonder in two volumes. Volume One includes stories from 1976 through 2004, ranging from the cyberpunk to the transreal. As well as Rucker's solo stories, we have collaborations with Bruce Sterling, Marc Laidlaw, Paul Di Filippo, and John Shirley. *** Volume 1: "Jumpin' Jack Flash," "Enlightenment Rabies," "Schrödinger's Cat," "Sufferin' Succotash," "A New Golden Age," "Faraway Eyes," "The 57th Franz Kafka," "The Indian Rope Trick Explained," "A New Experiment With Time," "The Man Who Ate Himself," "Tales of Houdini," "The Facts of Life," "Buzz," "The Last Einstein-Rosen Bridge," "Pac-Man," "Pi in the Sky," "Wishloop," "Inertia," "Bringing in the Sheaves," "The Jack Kerouac Disembodied School of Poetics," "Message Found in a Copy of Flatland," "Plastic Letters," "Monument to the Third International," "Rapture in Space," "Storming the Cosmos" (With Bruce Sterling), "In Frozen Time," "Soft Death," "Inside Out," "Instability" (With Paul Di Filippo), "The Man Who Was a Cosmic String," "Probability Pipeline" (With Marc Laidlaw), "As Above," "So Below," "Chaos Surfari" (With Marc Laidlaw), "Big Jelly" (With Bruce Sterling), "Easy As Pie," "The Andy Warhol Sandcandle" (With Marc Laidlaw), "Cobb Wakes Up," "The Square Root of Pythagoras" (With Paul Di Filippo), "Pockets" (With John Shirley), "Junk DNA" (With Bruce Sterling), "The Use of the Ellipse the Catalog the Meter & the Vibrating Plane," "Jenna and Me" (With Rudy Rucker Jr.), "Lucky Number," "The Million Chakras," "Aint Paint," "Terry's Talker," "The Kind Rain," "Hello Infinity," "MS Found in a Minidrive," "Guadalupe and Hieronymus Bosch." ***
