Newsweek is running Rudy Rucker's entertaining essay about synthetic biology.
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The fact that the SynBio organisms are likely to have simplified Tinkertoy DNA doesn't necessarily mean they're going to be faster and better. It's more likely that they'll be dumber and less adaptable.
Last night, Rudy Rucker and I gave a reading and a fun panel in San Francisco, as part of the SF in SF series hosted by Terry Bisson. Terry and Rudy are two of my favorite writers, and they were absolutely great. — Read the rest
Reminder: I'm giving a reading tonight in San Francisco along with Rudy Rucker, followed by a discussion moderated by Terry Bisson. Hope to see you there!
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I'm giving a reading with cyberpunk legend Rudy Rucker in San Francisco next Wednesday, as part of Terry Bisson's SFinSF series. We'll each read, then Terry moderates a discussion between us. Hope to see you there!
— Read the restWednesday, May 16th, 7PM
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I've always loved author Rudy Rucker's artwork. In fact, he drew some cartoons for the early issues of bOING bOING (the print zine) in the late 1980s.
He's also a painter, and he just posted a long entry on his blog about his paintings and his process of getting them made into prints. — Read the rest
The third issue of Rudy Rucker's sporadic but wonderful free webzine Flurb is live today, filled with original sf stories from king-hell sf writers like Paul Di Filippo, John Shirley, and Eileen Gunn.
(via Futurismic)
See also:
Cory's "I, Row-Boat" live on Flurb
FLURB: Rudy Rucker's new literary zine
Rudy Rucker's science fiction webzine Flurb #2 is out
A Boing Boing reader says:
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Rudy Rucker's desire for software immortality brought us cyberpunk lit, the blog, and the vlog. His new kick is getting rid of digital machines via hylozoism and telepathy — so that objects are alive and you can talk to them.
NPR science fiction reporter par excellence Rick Kleffel has just posted an MP3 of his interview with cyberpunk legend Rudy Rucker. I love Rudy's books — his latest, Mathematicians in Love is one of the greatest nerd-hero sf novels I've read, a mindbending trip through the math of interdimensional travel. — Read the rest
The second issue of Rudy Rucker's webzine, Flurb, has stories by Anders, Laidlaw, Kadrey, Rucker, Shirley, and Stross.
— Read the restSo here we go with a new issue of FLURB. I was waiting till I had gotten around to writing a story that would be just about impossible to commercially market, and now I think I've done it.
Rudy Rucker is back from his trip to New Zealand and has been blogging about it.
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I saw a lot of Charles F. Goldie's paintings in Auckland and another Goldie painting in Wellington and another in Christchurch; Goldie (1870-1947) painted Maoris with full facial tattoos, these tattoos are called moko or ta moko… Note that the moko are relatively recent, only really took off after the Europeans showed up in the 1830s, as then the Maori had metal chisels so they could carve the moko in better.
In our third Get Illuminated podcast, we interview author and mathematician Rudy Rucker about his two upcoming books: Mad Professor and Mathematicians in Love.
MP3 link (64 kbps) | Subscribe via iTunes | Internet Archive page | Get Illuminated 001 | Get Illuminated 002
Great news! One of my all time favorite writers, Rudy Rucker, has launched a new web zine, called FLURB.
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My present strategy is simply to post a few stories by myself and my friends. I have some good stories for Issue #1, with possibly a few more coming in.
Meme Therapy has a long and interesting review with one of my very favorite authors, Rudy Rucker.
— Read the restMT: What aspects of writing do you enjoy the most?
RR: I like leaving the daily world and going to another world, a world that I had a hand in designing.
Author Rudy Rucker was interviewed on KPFK's Digital Village radio program on May 6. Here are the MP3s. This page has interviews with a lot of other interesting people, too, including our own Xeni. Link
As part of a monthly series of Science Fiction readings, two of my favorite writers, Rudy Rucker and John Shirley, will be speaking at New College Valencia Theater, 777 Valencia St. on April 18 at 7pm. It costs $4 at the door. — Read the rest
Correction to an earlier post: Rudy Rucker has moved his signing at San Francsico's Booksmith from Feb 21 to Mar 7.
(Thanks, Emily!)
Rudy Rucker, one of my favorite science fiction authors, is signing his books at the Booksmith, one of my favorite San Francisco bookstores, on February 21st. The Booksmith writes:
— Read the restIn the 21st century, we no longer think of reality as particles and force fields.
Rudy Rucker sez, "I'm back from being offline 3 weeks in Micronesia and I'm blogging 20,000 words of notes and a bunch of photos, maybe you could mention it on bOING so my old reader know I'm active again. Today a topless (but dressed) girl with a pet bat chewing betelnut…"
Rudy Rucker sez, "Here's an interesting blog entry about conotoxins, cellular automata, and the new drug Prialt."
— Read the restSo I'm going on about cellular automata all the time and you're thinking, "Yes, but can CAs get me high?" I'll say! Stephen Wolfram's mascot is the textile coneshell, famous for having a one-dimensional CA wrapped around its shell.
Novelist, computer science professor, and former BoingBoing guestblogger Rudy Rucker launched a blog today at rudyrucker.com. He says the project was "driven by a desire to post a great topical cover of the old protest song 'Eve of Destruction' by Al Buzzo of Geneseo, New York." — Read the rest
