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Discussing AGENCY with William Gibson + Excerpts

This post is excerpted from an email thread I had with Bill in January, 2020. I put in some photos from the SF Women’s March this month, also a couple of my recent paintings. And I included some quotes from Agency to convey the flavor and attitude of the book. Spoilers alert. RR=== They returned […]

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Podcast # 112. “Fat Stream” from Space Cowboy Books

January 15, 2020.Repost of an enjoyable podcast by Space Cowboy Books in Joushua Tree, near the Mohave Desert, performing my story “Fat Stream.” Cast: Jean-Paul Garnier, Zara Kand, Patricia Thomson, Tamara Good, RedBlueBlackSilver, and music by Phog Masheeen. Great show. Thanks to all. Here’s the Space Cowboy “Simultaneous Times” podcast site. And they’re on Bandcamp […]

Podcast #111. “The Future, Jellyfish, Cyberpunk and the Transreal.”

November 13, 2019. Julia Grillmayr of Vienna interviewed me for her podcast show, Superscience Me, and her episode is on her site, lightly edited, with an intro, and with some nice electronic background music. I have a raw version of the interview on Rudy Rucker Podcasts as well. The sound quality is great; Julia is […]

Rereading Gibson’s THE PERIPHERAL. Thoughts on Writing.

I just spent a week rereading William Gibson’s 2014 novel The Peripheral. Third time through. Mellowed out, lying on the couch, reading it on my Kindle, and highlighting passages that I liked…a nice thing about the Kindle, because then you can have the Kindle email you your highlighted passages in a single text file. Sometimes […]

Rereading Gibson’s THE PERIPHERAL

I just spent a week rereading William Gibson’s 2014 novel The Peripheral. Mellowed out, lying on the couch, reading it on my Kindle, and highlighting passages that I liked…a nice thing about the Kindle, because then you can have it email you your highlighted passages in a single text file. Sometimes I like to take […]

Italy 4. Genoa.

This is my final post about our trip to Italy this fall. Here we’re mostly in Genoa or Genova. Post #1 was Pisa, #2 was mostly Lucca (plus an intro to The Matrix), #3 was Florence, and this last one is #4. Love all these people in their stone caskets with stone skulls underneath. That’s […]

Italy 3. Florence.

Continuing my Italy posts here. #1 was Pisa, #2 was mostly Lucca (plus an intro to The Matrix), this #3 is Florence, and there’s a #4 of Genoa. The Duomo, the cathedral at the heart of Florence, made of multi-colored stone, like a huge confection, massive yet weightless, like a thought made solid. After doing […]

Italy 3. Florence

Continuing my Italy posts here. #1 was Pisa, #2 was mostly Lucca (plus an intro to The Matrix), this #3 is Florence, and soon I’ll have a #4 of Genoa. The Duomo, the cathedral at the heart of Florence, made of multi-colored stone, like a huge confection, massive yet weightless, like a thought made solid. […]

Italy 2. “Intro to The Matrix.” Photos of Lucca.

This is a little intro talk I gave before a showing of The Matrix  at the Pisa Internet Festival, October 11, 2019. I’ve illustrated this blog post with photos mostly taken in Lucca, a very nice town near Pisa. [Marble dog footrest for eternity.  Love how smooth the stone is.  Saw this in Lucca.] Rudy […]