Mad professor
Subtitle: the uncollected short stories
By: of Rudy Rucker.
Publisher: Thunder's Mouth Press
Published: 2007
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 301
ISBN-13: 9781560259749
Subjects: Fantasy fiction, American
Description: Much cyberpunk SF is grimly noir in depicting future-shocked people trapped by their limitations, but in this collection of 19 laid-back yarns, Rucker finds human dilemmas much too important to take seriously. "Jenna and Me," for example, co-written with his son Rudy Rucker Jr., shows President Bush's daughter brain-wiped by agents of the "conspiracy elite," but eventually becoming the unwitting focus for an alien invasion that may remake humanity for the better.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: Introduction -- (written with Terry Bisson); title: Introduction -- (written with Terry Bisson) -- (written with Paul Di Filippo); title: Introduction -- (written with Terry Bisson) -- (written with Paul Di Filippo); title: Introduction -- (written with Terry Bisson) -- (written with Paul Di Filippo); title: Introduction -- (written with Terry Bisson) -- (written with Paul Di Filippo); title: Introduction -- (written with Terry Bisson) -- (written with Paul Di Filippo); title: Introduction -- (written with Terry Bisson) -- (written with Paul Di Filippo); title: Introduction -- (written with Terry Bisson) -- (written with Paul Di Filippo) -- (written with Rudy Rucker Jr.); title: Introduction -- (written with Terry Bisson) -- (written with Paul Di Filippo) -- (written with Rudy Rucker Jr.); title: Introduction -- (written with Terry Bisson) -- (written with Paul Di Filippo) -- (written with Rudy Rucker Jr.) -- (written with Bruce Sterling); title: Introduction -- (written with Terry Bisson) -- (written with Paul Di Filippo) -- (written with Rudy Rucker Jr.) -- (written with Bruce Sterling) -- (written with John Shirley); title: Introduction -- (written with Terry Bisson) -- (written with Paul Di Filippo) -- (written with Rudy Rucker Jr.) -- (written with Bruce Sterling) -- (written with John Shirley); title: Introduction-- (written with Terry Bisson)-- (written with Paul Di Filippo)-- (written with Rudy Rucker Jr.)-- (written with Bruce Sterling)-- (written with John Shirley)-- Notes on the stories.