Rudy Rucker's Blog, page 9

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 […]

High on Gnarl and Chaos

I’ve always been interested in enlightenment, or higher consciousness, or, put simply, getting high. But, by now I find it easier just to be high, instead of having to get high. So how to stay high? There are no instructions. But for a starting point, why not assume that you already are high all the […]

Blast from the Past. Charles Platt’s 1983 Profile of Rudy.

I’m going to recycle a blast from the past: a profile of me by my (by now) old friend Charles Platt, done in Lynchburg, Virginia, 1983. It appeared in The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, in December, 1984, and by now I don’t think anyone has seen it for thirty-five years. Ideally it should […]

The Wolfram Physics Project

My friend Stephen Wolfram has come up with a new fundamental theory of physics. He’s been meaning to do it for years. He sent me an introductory sketch or project announcement, entitled  “Finally We May Have a Path to the Fundamental Theory of Physics…and It’s Beautiful”. “Hazmat Spring” Acrylic on canvas, April, 2020, 40” x […]

Translating “Million Mile Road Trip” into Chinese!

I went to an IOHK blockchain conference in June, and I met this bright young guy from Shanghai, Lei Hao. Turns out my SF novels like Postsingular and the Ware Tetralogy are quite popular among programmers and techies in China now. Lei Hao suggested that he might help me get some of my novels out […]

Lei Hao Translates “Million Mile Road Trip” into Chinese

I went to an IOHK blockchain conference in June, and I met this bright young guy from Shanghai, Lei Hao. Turns out my SF novels like Postsingular and the Ware Tetralogy are quite popular among programmers and techies in China now. Lei Hao suggested that he might help me get some of my novels out […]

“Enlightenment Rabies” 1977

Here’s a forty-three-year-old story of mine that resonates with our current pandemic lockdown. When I wrote “Enlightenment Rabies” in 1977 I was upset about the U. S. propaganda tactic of naming diseases after the government’s enemies: the Russian Flu, the Chinese Flu and the like. And, of course, I was filled with hatred for television. […]

Pandemic Fugue Mode

In December, 2019, I had the lenses of my eyes surgically replaced by soft plastic lenses. My own lenses had gotten cloudy and dark over the years. I was delighted by how rich colors became, seen through new eyes. Maybe I’d been painting with such bright colors because my vision was dim? I held back […]

Shelter-in-Place SF Lair

We’re under a corona virus “shelter-in-place” edict here in the SF Bay Area, hanging around the house, flipping twixt Twitter, FB, Instagram, email, messages, Google , NYTimes, WaPo, and links thereof. I’m like a seedy spectral figure in a 3 am Reno Casino, working the slots. Waiting for a hit, and not getting one. Here’s […]

New Story. Where Does Your Lifebox Live?

It’s been too long since I put up a new post. Thing is, I’ve been busy writing. So today I’ll take a chunk of my writing notes and make them into a perhaps-a-bit-opaque post. “Magic Door” acrylic on canvas, December, 2019, 24” x 18”. Click for a larger version of the painting. I’ve been writing […]