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Podcast #102. If Chatbots Talk, Where Will AI Go?

August 22, 2017. Audio from interview with Wilson Walker for KPIX evening news, taped August 1, 2017. Topic: If Facebook has chatbots that have developed their own language, what does this mean for AI? Should we be scared or hopeful? Press the arrow below to play “If Chatbots Talk, Where Will AI Go?” And, if […]

Podcast #101 “Fat Stream”

August 21, 2017. Cyberpunk SF story, a draft as read at UC Santa Cruz on February 13, 2017. In this tale, an intense VR streaming show in San Francisco leads to something more. The final revised version was published today on the Mondo 2000 ezine. Press the arrow below to play “Fat Stream.” And, if […]

Christopher Brown THE TROPIC OF KANSAS. Radical SF.

Once again, I’ll start with my latest painting, “Bugs and Stars.” “Bugs and Stars” acrylic, July, 2017, 24” x 18”. Click for a larger version of the painting. I did this one pretty quickly. I used the background color from my recent “Monkeybrains ISP,” wrapping the pale blue-green around some purplish blobs. I added some […]

Cory Doctorow’s WALKAWAY

I really enjoyed Cory Doctorow’s new Walkaway. I think it goes a step beyond any of his previous books. It’s up there with, say, Stross’s Accelerando, Sterling’s Holy Fire, Gibson’s Neuromancer, and my Software. In the cyberpunk pantheon. I read Walkaway on my Kindle, and I happened to highlight passages that struck me as memorable, […]

Exploding Head

I’ve been in high gear this month. Here’s a picture of me with my head exploding. Or the man standing next to me, as in Dylan’s “Day of the Locusts.” Or something. More details toward the end of this post. Let’s start with my latest painting. “MonkeyBrains ISP” acrylic, July, 2017, 40” x 30”. Click […]

Hooray!

Today I signed a contract selling the print rights for ten of my novels to Skyhorse Publishing, the books to appear under the Night Shade Books imprint, edited by Jeremy Lassen, with the deal negotiated by my agent John Silbersack. I have some other things to be glad about this week, and I just finished […]

Waiting for my Contract

Nothing much going on. I’m still waiting for the final contract for that ten-book deal I was talking about, that is, for nine of my back-list books plus my new novel Million Mile Road Trip. Meanwhile I’m revising Million Mile Road Trip to the tune of maybe five thousand corrections…that is nearly twenty per page […]

Last Chance for Nine of Rudy’s Transreal Books

I found a publisher (name soon to be announced) for my latest novel, Million Mile Road Trip. The new publisher is acquiring the print rights for ten of my books in all, that is, rights for Million Mile Road Trip plus rights for nine of my backlist novels, all of which are presently in print […]

Swarthmore 50th Reunion. Louisville Icons.

Sylvia and I just went back east for a week, first hitting my Swarthmore College class of 1967 reunion, then visiting my brother in Louisville. On the way to Swarthmore, we spent a couple of nights in Philadelphia. Rainy day at the Philadelphia Art Museum. One of the big four or five museums in US, […]

Musing Attractors or How to Write

For my latest painting, I was inspired by piñatas I saw in the Mission district of San Francisco. I had two smallish canvases, and I decided it would nice to make a diptych. I saturated the backgrounds with two shades you might see on walls in Mexico. You can probably guess who the mean guy […]