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Podcast #92: Big Jelly from TRANSREAL CYBERPUNK

January 16, 2016. Bruce Sterling reads the Rucker & Sterling story “Junk DNA.” Wild, whoop-it-up story where Silicon Valley meets Texas Big Oil. Result? Flying jellyfish. Appeared in Asimov’s Science Fiction in 1994 Press the arrow below to play “Big Jelly” right now! “Big Jelly” appears in Transreal Cyberpunk, a collection of the nine stories […]

Podcast #91. “Storming the Cosmos” from TRANSREAL CYBERPUNK.

January 14, 2016. Bruce Sterling reads the Rucker & Sterling story “Storming the Cosmos.” Insanely funny atompunk take on early Soviet space program + Tunguska disaster + psychotomimetic Siberian mushrooms + Soviet beatniks + Laika the space dog. Appeared in Asimov’s Science Fiction in 1985. Press the arrow below to play “Storming the Cosmos” right […]

Podcast #90. “Loco” from TRANSREAL CYBERPUNK

December 29, 2015. Bruce Sterling reads our joint story “Loco.” An engaging and florid performance. When the story appeared on Tor.com in 2012, Cory Doctorow termed it “the weirdest fucking thing I’ve ever read that managed to still make sense.” Press the arrow below to play “Loco” right now! “Loco” appears in Transreal Cyberpunk, a […]

Podcast #89. “Kraken and Sage” A brand new Rucker & Sterling story. For TRANSREAL CYBERPUNK.

December 14, 2015. This week I recorded a reading of “Kraken and Sage,” a brand new, never-before-published story by me and Bruce Sterling. The podcast is about forty-five minutes long. It could be our best joint story ever. It’s about … well, it’s about Bruce and me, but it’s also about runaway biotech and our […]

Rudy’s Book Picks for 2015

I’ve been seeing various “Authors Recommend Books” columns lately, so thought I’d put in my ten cents worth. I’m constantly looking for books these days, ravenous for something to read, and to lose myself in, but over the decades I’ve become fairly picky. Also I’ve already read a lot of the books that I’d want […]

Podcast #88. “Hormiga Canyon” from TRANSREAL CYBERPUNK

December 7, 2015. This week I recorded and produced a reading of “Hormiga Canyon,” a story about giant ants, written by Bruce Sterling and me in 2007. The podcast is about an hour and a half long. It turned out to be quite a bit of work to perform, edit, and produce it—and certainly it […]

Transreal Cyberpunk, by Rucker + Sterling

Today the Kickstarter drive for my latest Transreal Books project goes live. Check it out. Transreal Cyberpunk A book of nine stoires by Rudy Rucker & Bruce Sterling, Published by Transreal Books. Hardback, paperback and ebook. 308 pages. Publication date: February 1, 2016. Summary Nine wild, weird and wondrous stories, written together by Rucker and […]

Trip to Guanajuato #2. Post-op. Diego and Hunhunahpu.

So that new hip I got in March, 2015, didn’t take, that is, its cup never bonded with my pelvis bone. So day before yesterday, on Monday, October 26, I had my third artificial left hip implanted. There was the usual jump-cut in consciousness. I’m lying on the operating table with an IV in my […]

Trip to Guanajuato, Mexico #1. Mummies, Photography, Bef.

Some travel notes from my trip down to a month-long arts festival in the lovely town of Guanajuato in the middle of Mexico. I was there for four days. The days were very full. I went there to be on an “SF and the Future” panel with the novelist and graphic artist Bef Mexico City, […]

Raiders, Great Pumpkin, Tunitas, Pigeon Point, Perfection

Today’s post is photocentric, and the theme is Nature’s perfection. Kicking it off is this nice shot of a sunset at Pigeon Point lighthouse on Route 1 south of Half Moon Bay. I like how the roughness of sea echoes the clouds. And the vertical shadows of the clouds along the band above the horizon. […]