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Art, Journals, Grandkids, Beat Shindig, Rbt. Williams

I’ve been away from my regular blog posts for awhile. I had that thing with the art show and the talk at Borderlands. I made a nice video of the “art tour” part of my talk¬—I figured out how to use this free Microsoft Windows tool called “Movie Maker” to cut still photo in with […]

Going Live with Rudy Rucker Podcasts

I’ve been putting this together for the last two weeks. Check it out! And add any comments below. What’s in the Podcasts? Readings, interviews, talks, and Q&A sessions. Rudy Rucker is the author of twenty SF novels, plus books on infinity and on the fourth dimension.. He’s a cyberpunk and a transrealist—writing SF about real […]

Podcast #85. Reading from JOURNALS at Borderlands. June 13, 2015.

June 13, 2015. At Borderlands Books. I read about six passages from Journals 1990-2014, about 45 minutes, including long Q & A. Some passages read are the same as in Santa Cruz Podcast #84, but most are different. Subscribe to Rudy Rucker Podcasts.

Podcast #85. Reading from JOURNALS at Borderlands

June 13, 2015. At Borderlands Books. I read about six passages from Journals 1990-2014, about 45 minutes, including long Q & A. Some passages read are the same as in Santa Cruz Podcast #84, but most are different. Subscribe to Rudy Rucker Podcasts.

Podcast #85. Reading from JOURNALS at Borderlands, June 13, 2015

At Borderlands Books. I read about six passages from Journals 1990-2014, about 45 minutes, including long Q & A. Some passages read are the same as in Santa Cruz Podcast #84, but most are different. Reading was followed by an “art tour” of 15 of my paintings hanging on the walls in Borderlands. Audio of […]

Podcast #84. Reading from JOURNALS, May 1, 2015.

Event in Santa Cruz, sponsored by Scott Clements of LOGOS Books. The tape includes part of an introduction by Scott’s partner Andrew, the organizer of the “Santa Cruz College” lecture series. I read about six passages from my Journals 1990-2014, and then we did Q&A. Good sound quality and a lively, responsive crowd.

Podcast #83. Rudy Rucker discusses THE HOLLOW EARTH, March 24, 2015

I was interviewd by Robin Ince for a BBC Channel 4 broadcast on the theme of the Hollow Earth. I never heard the show, but this recording of my comments, made in my home by Mark Mollineaux, has really excellent sound quality. The file doesn’t include Robin Ince’s prompts, just my statements about the history […]

Podcast #82. Reading. “Laser Shades,” June 11, 2014.

Rucker reads his short SF story, “Laser Shades,” written for Robert Shults’s photo book THE SUPERLATIVE LIGHT, which contains photos of the Austin, Texas, Petawatt Laser Lab. Taped in Rucker’s home studio, good sound.

Podcast #81. Reading. “The Attack of the Giant Ants,” October 18, 2014.

Story read by Rucker at the Lit Crawl 2014 event Dark Lords of Cyberpunk. Richard Kadrey and John Shirley read as well. “The Attack of the Giant Ants” was inspired by the classic B movie THEM. Story slated appeared in the Motherboard webzine Terraform.

Podcast #80. Song: For ALL THE VISIONS. “Rucker Songs”

This song is from Roy Whelden’s album LIKE A PASSING RIVER, which was in part inspired by my novel ALL THE VISIONS. “Rucker Songs” is an operatic oratorio featuring the playing of Roy Whelden and the American Baroque quartet, with Karen Clark singing. The words are drawn from intense closing passages of ALL THE VISIONS. […]