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Lowlands

In late September, 2024, Barb and I went to Lowlands for two and half weeks. This means Amsterdam, Brussels, and Antwerp. All are places I know fairly well. Beyond the Lowlands trip, I’m covering this fall and winter, including the death of my brother Embry, and another Christmas. Our first stop was Amsterdam, and the […]

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California Gnarl

For this image, I pasted a sample from from one of my paintings onto an AI image of a writer and a robot. It’s me writing my novel Software in 1980, right? And my muse is Ralph Numbers, or Cobb Anderson, or my father, Embry Rucker, Sr. As I compose this post, to be dated […]

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England with Barb

Early in 2024 I started spending time with Barb Ash, who I met in the Los Gatos Coffee Roasting. Being with Barb makes me a lot happier than I’ve been for the last year and a half. I’m glad I met her. In May, we went ahead and did a trip to England together, spending […]

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Podcast #115. “Big Germs”

June 23, 2024. Reading my anti-gun “Big Germs” story at the SF in SF meeting. In memory of Terry Bisson. And huge thanks to sound wizsard Rusty Hodge. Press the arrow below to play “Big Germs.” We’re using the new and improved .m4a sound file format instead of the old .mp3. If you have a […]

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Reading “Big Germs” at SF in SF.

This is the text of “Big Germs,” a strongly anti-gun story that I read  at the SF in SF gathering in San Francisco on Sunday, June 23, 2024. This post appears on Medium as well. And you can hear a podcast version. One more option is that you can read a longer and more polished  […]

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Reading “Big Germs” at SF in SF. Print Sale.

This is the text of “Big Germs,” a revised and abridged story that I am reading at the SF in SF gathering in San Francisco at 6 pm on Sunday, June 23, 2024. A longer and unrivised version of “Big Germs” appeared in BoingBoing on May 22, 2024. As usual, to liven up my post […]

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Invading Aliens? No, They’re Exchange Students. (With Input from Stephen Wolfram)

Alien invasions and interspecies war are played-out tropes. In my Sqinks novel, sqink aliens are arriving. And I was going to have it be an alien invasion. But then I thought to ask Stephen Wolfram for a better idea. Me: What do the invading aliens want from us? Stephen Anthropology? Understand an alien mind to […]

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In Memory of Terry Bisson

On March 30, 2024, I spoke at an event sponsored by City Lights books, in honor of Terry Bisson.  Here’s a version of what I said. Terry Bisson 1942-2024 Memorial event at the Lost Church in SF I met Terry in 1984.  We felt an immediate rapport. We’re beatnik science fiction writers from Kentucky. We […]

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Terry Bisson Event

I’ll be speaking tonight at an event sponsored by City Lights books, in honor of Terry Bisson.  Held at the Lost Church in North Beach.  Here’s what I’m going to say. Terry Bisson 1942-2024 Memorial event at the Lost Church in SF I met Terry in 1984.  We felt an immediate rapport. We’re beatnik science […]

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The Reality of the Fourth Dimension

Over the years I’ve written two non-fiction books on the fourth dimension, edited a book of C. H. Hinton’s writings on the fourth dimension, published a novel set in the fourth dimension, and worked the concept into a number of my other novels and short stories. Shortly before Christmas, 2023, Jeff Carreira interviewed me about […]

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