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
Author's Notes
comments on the above poems, stories, and essays
