Rudy Rucker's Blog, page 19

Heavy Tripping With Raymond Chandler. Full Report.

I wrote this post on Feb 7, 2017, and then I rewrote it, making it about twice as long, on Feb 11, 2017. It got longer because I learned more about Raymond Chandler. I’ve been reading a lot of Raymond Chandler over the last few weeks. He wrote seven novels: (1) The Big Sleep, (2) […]

Raymond Chandler

Still raining like a mofo. I’m picking up hyperspace signals in High Martian, trying to firm up the ideas for this story called “Black Bucket” that I’m working on with Bruce Sterling. What, him again? I never learn. This photo is from about 1995, shot a party on our deck held in the visiting Bruce’s […]

Rain. Art. Life After the Inauguration.

As I’ve been doing in posts of late, I’ll work my way backwards through some recent photos. Sylvia and I went to the Women’s March in San Francisco the day after the Inauguration. A rainy day with a big crowd. It had some of that old Vietnam war protest march vibe. Reassuring to see so […]

Bottom of the Year

Here I am on January 1, 2017. Such a futuristic 21st Century date. I’m glad I’ve made it this far. 70 years old now. Insane. The future isn’t exactly what I expected. I’m glad there’s still no flying cars. Can you imagine the noise, with those suckers flying over your house? And I’m still stunned […]

My Top 15 Pages

Recently I started using some tools to see which pages on my site are most popular “landing pages,” that is, the pages that the most people visit first. So today, for lack of a better topic to blog about, I thought I’d list my top fifteen landing pages and, as usual, stick in some photos—some […]

Infinity & 4D & Gnarl Books. @lantis. T-giving.

Onward into the future. Focusing on my family, my writing, and my art these days. “Welcome to Infinity” pen and colored pencil on paper, 1972, 9” x 11”. Click for a larger version of the drawing. I made a big push and put some more of my books online. Three of my big science books […]

Trumpic. Supermoon. Repub LIFEBOX.

Like a lot of us, I’ve been in shock since the election. Feeling drifty and at loose ends. Waiting for the hammer to drop. In a cell on death row. How to deal? “I Like Purple” acrylic on canvas September, 2016, 40” x 30”. I made this painting on comission for our friends Susie & […]

Gloucester & NYC

So Sylvia and I went back East to attend the wedding of Celia, the daughter of my old pal an comrade in arms Gregory Gibson. Before the wedding we looked around the port a little. A seagull the size of a chicken. Gotta have a lobster-related photo, right? I like his rope antennae. And, as […]

Hot New Editions of 5 of my Novels

I republished five of my older titles this week, polishing them up and adding new author notes—see the five covers below. Priced to sell: $2 ebooks and $12 paperbacks! Just scroll down this page and click on one of the covers to buy a Kindle or a paperback from Amazon. Once again, that’s $2 ebooks […]

Budapest / Vienna #3

So now I’m getting back to our trip to Budapest and Vienna. This is the Vienna part. The cathedral is all bumpy like drip castle at the beach. The story is that Sylvia’s great-grandfather designed the stripes in the tiling of the cathedral roof. Vienna’s really deluxe and classic in most of the downtown. Imposing […]