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Writing Interview + Box Shop Art

In November, 2020, the awesome SF and horror writer Cody Goodfellow interviewed me for the punk. Funky, and visually stunning online zine Forbidden Futures. And now I’m running the interview as a blog post. Photos are from around Santa Cruz and Los Gatos, with the cool art ones mostly from the Box Shop art space […]

Working on JUICY GHOSTS

Today’s text is taken from my ongoing writing notes for my novel which I’m now calling Juicy Ghosts, but which I used to call Juicy Ghosts. To “teep” is to communicate via telepathy. The photos are either from around Los Gatos and Santa Cruz this fall, or they’re from Denmark and Norway, back in 2009. […]

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Working on TEEP

Today’s text is taken from my ongoing writing notes for my novel Teep. To “teep” is to communicate via telepathy. The photos are either from around Los Gatos and Santa Cruz this fall, or they’re from Denmark and Norway, back in 2009. Teep is set about forty years from now. Analogous to how my novel […]

A New Day

So all right! We won back the presidency. I was pretty worried about it. The novel Teep that I’ve been working on has a whole big chapter, “Juicy Ghost,” about some rebels removing an illegit third-termer named Ross Treadle. But, thanks be to God, that can stay in the realm of SF rather than in […]

“Juicy Ghost.” An Election SF Story. 2020.

Copyright © Rudy Rucker, 2020. All rights reserved. In 2019 I posted a shorter version of “Juicy Ghost” on my blog. The shorter version also appeared in  the excellent ezine Big Echo, and as a podcast on Rudy Rucker Podcasts. I wrote this longer version of “Juicy Ghost” in Fall, 2020, with the scary US […]

“Juicy Ghost.” An Election SF Story.

Copyright © Rudy Rucker, 2020. All rights reserved. This short story, “Juicy Ghost,” is a draft chapter from my novel-in-progress Teep. It appears here with surreal illos. I started the story in June, 2019, and I wrote my final version in Fall, 2020, with the scary US Presidential election drawing near…an election which, thankfully, didn’t […]

“Juicy Ghosts 2025,” a Tale of an Alternate Future.

Copyright © Rudy Rucker, 2020. All rights reserved. [This short story, “Juicy Ghosts 2025,” is a chapter from my novel-in-progress Teep. In 2019, I published an earlier and shorter version of the story under the title “Juicy Ghost.” It appeared on my blog and in the excellent ezine Big Echo. With the potentially cataclysmic 2020 […]

Teep and Peep

My original notion for my novel-in-progress Teep was that it would be a near-future Silicon Valley high-tech thriller. In my 2019 public talks in Miami and Pisa, Italy, I claimed that commercial telepathy isn’t all that far off. And Teep will, among other things, show a plausible path for this future tech. It’s useful to […]

“Billy’s Book” by Terry Bisson (Illos by Rudy)

I just spent a week or so getting Terry Bisson‘s wonderful volume, Billy’s Book back into print in three editions from my Transreal Books. We did an edition in 2011, but now we’re back, and better than ever. This cover is by Lisa Roth. Book summary: True crime for kids. Or is it the happy […]

Quotes from Recent Reads, plus Paintings.

Shelter in place has now lasted nearly four months. I’ve been writing on some stories, though not as much as I might normally do. And taking photos. And I’ve painting, much more than usual…thirteen canvases since the pandemic kicked in.  Check out my Paintings page if you’d like to get one. Also I’ve been reading […]