Rudy Rucker writes, "I'll be reading and giving out BIG AHA and some other titles at Scribd in San Francisco on Thursday."

Rudy Rucker — science fiction writer, mathematician, painter, hoopy frood — has a new art show going up at San Francisco's Borderlands Books tonight, and there's a reception from 5:30 to 7:30PM. The show includes work by Vernon Head, who makes gorgeous, weird assemblage sculptures that perfectly complement Rucker's work. — Read the rest

Rudy Rucker sends us, "My new novel, THE BIG AHA, with an accompanying volume of NOTES FOR THE BIG AHA. Browsable as a free webpage, and available as commercial ebook and paperback. With fourteen chapter illustrations. The plot? Biotech has replaced machines. — Read the rest

One of my favorite science fiction writers Rudy Rucker has a new short story posted at Institute for the Future's Web site. The story, titled "Apricot Lane," was part of a large forecasting project my IFTF colleagues and I just completed called the Coming Age of Networked Matter, which lies beyond the Internet of Things. — Read the rest

Rudy Rucker is one of my all-time greatest science fiction authors. I just kicked in to fund his upcoming novel, The Big Aha.

Happy mutant, cyberpunk, and painter Rudy Rucker is hanging a show of his art at Borderlands Cafe and Science Fiction Bookstore in San Francisco's Mission district. Another great reason to visit an amazing store — he's kicking it off with a reading this Saturday, Jan 12:

I'll be hanging a show of my paintings in the Borderlands Books café with a reception on Friday, Jan 11, 5-7 pm.

It's Creative Commons's 10th birthday, and they've asked people to write short essays on their favorite pieces of CC-licensed media. I chose Rudy Rucker's extraordinary Wetware books:

Rudy Rucker is one of the modern heroes of science fiction, one of the original cyberpunks.

Rudy Rucker has launched a new novel, Turing & Burroughs, which he describes as a "beatnik SF novel." It's available direct from his site as an ebook, or from the Kindle store, or as a print-on-demand book.

What if Alan Turing, founder of the modern computer age, escaped assassination by the secret service to become the lover of Beat author William Burroughs?

Rudy Rucker has put every goddamned one of his mind-bendingly awesome short stories on his website for free. This includes collaborations with some of the best names in the field ("This huge collection includes collaborations with Bruce Sterling, Paul Di Filippo, Marc Laidlaw, John Shirley, Rudy Rucker Jr., — Read the rest

Science fiction writer and mathematician Rudy Rucker — surely one of the world's all-time happiest mutants — met with Kurt Gödel on three occasions, which he documented in an essay from his book Infinity and the Mind. Now Rucker has reprinted the essay on his blog, along with some of his fine photographs. — Read the rest

(illustration by Carl Wiens)

"Loco," a new story by Rudy Rucker and Bruce Sterling is the weirdest fucking thing I've ever read that managed to still make sense. I've read pretty much every word both of them ever published and together, they are infinitely weirder and more interesting than they are on their own. — Read the rest

The incomparable Rudy Rucker's just posted an ebook collecting his essays called (what else), Collected Essays. There's a Kindle edition, or you can buy directly from him without DRM. What a table of contents, too:

Collected Essays includes the nonfiction pieces from Rucker's two earlier collections, Transreal!

Rudy Rucker has launched his own press, Transreal Press, and has inaugurated it with a massive single-volume collection of his complete short stories and a reissue of his long out-of-print steampunk classic The Hollow Earth. There's also a drool-worthy list of upcoming titles, including his complete essays, complete paintings, his journals, and much more. — Read the rest

Surfing the Gnarl is the latest volume in PM Press's wonderful Outspoken Authors series: a collection of slim, handsome chapbooks curated by Terry Bisson that combine essays, stories and interviews (I've previously written here about the Kim Stanley Robinson volume, as well as my own). — Read the rest

"When I see an old movie, like from the '40s or '50s or '60s, the people look so calm. They don't have smart phones, they're not looking at computer screens, they're taking their time. They'll sit in a chair and just stare off into space. — Read the rest

Rina from San Francisco's SF in SF reading series sez, "Join SF in SF for a very special evening with steampunk innovators K. W. Jeter, Jay Lake, and Rudy Rucker on Saturday, February 11th. Each author will read a selection, followed by Q & A moderated by author Terry Bisson; booksigning and schmoozing follows. — Read the rest

Rudy Rucker sez, "So I decided that I'd better write my autobiography before it was too late. What with death and senility closing in! I didn't want my autobio to be overly long or dry. I wanted it to read something like a novel. — Read the rest

bOING bOING was a zine that my wife Carla and I launched in 1988 to
cover comic books, cyberpunk science fiction, consciousness
technology, curious phenomena, and whatever else surprised and
delighted us. That zine, which ran for 15 issues until 1997, evolved
into the very website you're reading right now. — Read the rest

RickKleffel sez, "Rudy Rucker reads a chapter from his forthcoming autobiography,'Nested Scrolls' as SF in SF (MP3). I think this may prove to be his best work. It is superbly written and he reads it perfectly. Hopefully, he'll do the audio book." — Read the rest

The next installment San Francisco's excellent SF in SF reading series features two decidedly happy mutants: Diana Paxson & Rudy Rucker. It's on this Saturday, January 15 at 6PM, and it's free to attend: The Variety Preview Room Theatre, The Hobart Bldg., — Read the rest