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Podcast #94. “The Knobby Giraffe” at SF in SF

June 12, 2016. I read my story “The Knobby Giraffe” at the SF in SF series in San Francisco, an event I shared with with Michael Blumlein, whose piece appears in a separate podcast. “The Knobby Giraffe” appeared in print online in April, 2016, in Lightspeed magazine, and is also available as a Lightspeed podcast, […]

Buttload of Photos. Rudy and Nick.

Another buttload of photos today, listed more or less in reverse chronological order. The one above is a panorama of a hill near where I live in Los Gatos. I think it’s great that I can find fairly wild-looking natural spots close to my house. I feed on nature. I shot these first three photos […]

SFMoma, SRL show, Cyclecide, Bagpipe and Flat Cow

Time for another blog post. I have a lot of photos that have piled up. Today I want to make it easy on myself, so I’ll just post the photos, recent ones first, older ones last, with some comments. Today’s theme? ART! Sylvia and I got into the newly renovated SF MOMA yesterday. They got […]

Pokes from the Muse

I’m still recuperating from a series of operations to replace my left hip. But at this point I think the end is in sight. Meanwhile I’ve gotten very good at using my fancy forearm style Sidestix crutches. I’m 70 years old. And I often wear a fedora hat. A picture’s worth a thousand words: During […]

I’m Bursting With “Million Mile Road Trip”

I’ve been working on my novel Million Mile Road Trip pre-visualizing some of the chapters with drawings and paintings. This might be my last novel. When I told this to Bob Silverberg last year, he said, “Make sure it’s a good one. If you write a bad last novel, then everyone will say, ‘Aw, he […]

David Hartwell (1941-2016)

David Hartwell lived from 1941 to 2016. He was involved in books and publishing for most of his life. I was fortunate enough to work with him for the past eighteen years. Here are some of my memories of him. I’ve drawn some of these from old journal entries, so there’s not a completely uniform […]

Delirium and “Stratocast.”

So last week I was in the hospital for hip surgery for three nights. I was really sad and anxious about going in there. Infection in my hip joint and they took out all the hardware, and I’ll be on intravenous antibiotics for six weeks, and then they put a new hip back in. A […]

Transreal Cyberpunk is Live!

Transreal Cyberpunk by Rudy Rucker & Bruce Sterling 310 Pages. Published by Transreal Books. 2016. Hardback $28.95 (coming soon) Paperback $15.95 Amazon Kindle $4.95 Amazon Kindle+EPUB $4.95 Transreal Books Listen to All Stories! Free Summary Nine wild, weird and wondrous stories, written together by Rucker and Sterling. What do you get if two cyberpunk masters […]

Catching Up.

I’m having a lot of trouble with my left hip these days. A run of bad luck. I’ll spare you the details. One of these days I’ll be okay again. I always like going to Santa Cruz for a break. Totterling around. Here’s the lighthouse jetty by the harbor. Those giant “jacks” are cool. Maybe […]

Podcast #93: Junk DNA from TRANSREAL CYBERPUNK

January 16, 2016. Rudy Rucker reads the Rucker & Sterling story “Junk DNA.” Funny, scary tale of genetic engineering run wild. Appeared in Asimov’s Science Fiction in 2003. Press the arrow below to play “Junk DNA” right now! “Junk DNA” appears in Transreal Cyberpunk, a collection of the nine stories that Rudy & Bruce have […]