Rudy Rucker Podcasts

Jan 12, 2013. Talking and reading at Borderlands Books in San Francisco the day of my art show opening there. I discuss my novel “Turing & Burroughs,” and then begin reading a section of it. Due to a technical glitch, the tape cuts off after twenty minutes. Subscribe to Rudy Rucker Podcasts. The post Podcast #69. Talk & Reading. TURING & BURROUGHS. first appeared on Rudy's Blog .

Sept 22, 2012. A mashup of my essay “Haunted by Phil Dick” and the afterword of my WARES TETRALOGY—discussing my imaginings of PKD and my Dick Award events. Delivered to lively audience at the Philip K. Dick Festival at San Francisco State University, organized by David Gill. In Q&A I I talk about my new […] The post Podcast #68. Talk. “Haunted by Phil Dick,” at SFSU. first appeared on Rudy's Blog...

Aug 29, 2012. Rucker’s talk at the Gloucester Writers Center in Gloucester, Mass. With an introduction by Gregory Gibson. Topics are transreal SF and beatnik writing, particularly that of William Burroughs. A reading from TURING & BURROUGHS, followed by Q&A touching on Burroughs’s cut-up technique and on contrasts between fantasy vs. SF. Subscribe to Rudy […] The post Podcast #67. Transrealism, Be...

July 27, 2012. In conversation with Australian scholar Leon Marvell in my back yard. Topics: TURING & BURROUGHS, Beat literature, self-publishing, transrealism. Subscribe to Rudy Rucker Podcasts. The post Podcast #66. Interview: Transrealism and TURING & BURROUGHS with Leon Marvell. first appeared on Rudy's Blog .

March 31, 2012. With Terry Bisson and John Shirley at the Anarchist Book Fair, San Francisco. Talking about anarchy in science fiction and in reality and whether SFictional events can free the world. Some Q&A. Subscribe to Rudy Rucker Podcasts. The post Podcast #65. Anarchism and SF Panel, with Shirley and Bisson. first appeared on Rudy's Blog .

March 13, 2012. Interviewed in New York by Jim Freund for his radio show, “Hour of the Wolf.” This interview aired on WBAI on March 21, 2012. About half an hour. Subscribe to Rudy Rucker Podcasts. The post Podcast #64. Interviewed by Jim Freund in NYC. first appeared on Rudy's Blog .

Feb 29, 2012. Reading at the San Francisco Dorkbot gathering, motto: “People doing strange things with electricity.” Reading is “Jane and Me” from the early chapters of a novel in progress with the working title, THE BIG AHA. Subscribe to Rudy Rucker Podcasts. The post Podcast #63. THE BIG AHA. Dorkbot, SF. first appeared on Rudy's Blog .

Feb 7, 2012. Reading from “Surfing the Gnarl” essay/book and NESTED SCROLLS at Green Arcade books in San Francisco. Some Q&A as well. Introduced by Terry Bisson. Subscribe to Rudy Rucker Podcasts. The post Podcast #62. “Surfing the Gnarl” & NESTED SCROLLS. first appeared on Rudy's Blog .

Jan 14, 2012. Reading from NESTED SCROLLS at Borderlands Books in San Francisco, with Q&A. Subscribe to Rudy Rucker Podcasts. The post Podcast #61. NESTED SCROLLS at Borderlands. first appeared on Rudy's Blog .

July 10, 2011. Reading the first chapter of JIM AND THE FLIMS at Borderlands Books in San Francisco, with Q&A on writing. Subscribe to Rudy Rucker Podcasts. The post Podcast #60. JIM AND THE FLIMS and Writing. Borderlands. first appeared on Rudy's Blog .

June 4, 2011. Rick Kleffel leads Rudy and Kim Stanley Robinson in conversation at the Capitola Book Cafe. Rudy is mainly discussing his novel JIM AND THE FLIMS, and Stan is talking about his fantasy-historical novel GALILEO’S DREAM. Subscribe to Rudy Rucker Podcasts. The post Podcast #59. Interview: In Conversation with Kim Stanley Robinson, Capitola. first appeared on Rudy's Blog .

Jan 15, 2011.Reading the “Birth of Transrealism” chapter from my memoir, NESTED SCROLLS, at the regular SF in SF gathering in San Francisco. Taped and posted by Rick Kleffel, for his “Agony Column” blog. Subscribe to Rudy Rucker Podcasts. The post Podcast #58. NESTED SCROLLS, “The Birth of Transrealism.” SF in SF. first appeared on Rudy's Blog .

The audio for Pocdast #56 is lost, so onward to #57! Jan 15, 2011. Rick Kleffel interview Rudy about THE WARE TETRALOGY, his webzine FLURB, his 2011 memoir NESTED SCROLLS, and his 2011 novel JIM AND THE FLIMS. Subscribe to Rudy Rucker Podcasts. The post Podcast #57. (#56 is Gone). Interviewed On Projects, by Rick Kleffel. first appeared on Rudy's Blog .

October 22, 2010. Interview with Thomas Gideon for his “Command Line” podcast site at thecommandline.net, on POSTSINGULAR, HYLOZOIC and the WARE TETRALOGY. Subscribe to Rudy Rucker Podcasts. The post Podcast #55. Interview: By Thomas Gideon, On POSTSINGULAR, HYLOZOIC and the WARES. first appeared on Rudy's Blog .

October 14, 2010. My reading of a story written with Bruce Sterling and published on Tor.com. Transreally speaking, it’s a story about two aging science-fiction writers. I.e., it’s about Bruce and me. This is one of the stories that appears in our 2016 anthology, Rucker + Sterling, Transreal Cyberpunk. Subscribe to Rudy Rucker Podcasts. The post Podcast #54. “Good Night, Moon”. Written with Bruce...

August 14, 2010. I talked a bit about the origins of the “Ware Tetralogy,” read the brain-eating scene from “Software,” a cheeseball vs. moldie scene from “Freeware,” and a juggling moldies scene from “Realware.” And then we had some Q&A. Subscribe to Rudy Rucker Podcasts. The post Podcast #53. Talk on THE WARE TETRALOGY, Borderlands Books. first appeared on Rudy's Blog .

July 4, 2010. A talk about new ideas for SF. Role of idea in a book or story. A list of some topics that seem interesting to me. Larry Niven was there, but he fell asleep. That’s okay. Q&A. Subscribe to Rudy Rucker Podcasts. The post Podcast #52. “New SF Futures.” Westercon. first appeared on Rudy's Blog .

July 3, 2010. A 45 minute talk on the theory and practice of Transreal SF writing in my novels. Starts with a reading of my 1983 “A Transrealist Manifesto” essay. Q&A at the end. Subscribe to Rudy Rucker Podcasts. The post Podcast #51. “Transreal SF Writing.” Westercon. first appeared on Rudy's Blog .

May 22, 2010. Rudy reads from his four-novel cyberpunk omnibus, THE WARE TETRALOGY at the SF in SF gathering in San Francisco. This clip includes the classic “monkey brain feast” scene from SOFTWARE, and Sta-Hi Mooney’s introduction to the drug “merge” in WETWARE. Subscribe to Rudy Rucker Podcasts. The post Podcast #50. THE WARE TETRALOGY. At SF in SF. first appeared on Rudy's Blog .

Nov 24, 2009. Forty minute talk on my life as a writer, followed by ten minutes of Q&A (the actual questions are hard to hear). Taped by my friend Leon Marvell at Deakin College of the University of Melbourne. Subscribe to Rudy Rucker Podcasts. The post Podcast #49. Talk. “My Life as a Writer.” Melbourne. first appeared on Rudy's Blog .

July 12, 2009. A short reading from HYLOZOIC, “Chapter 6: The Peng,” with a lengthy Q&A session about the Singularity and the possibility of human immortality. Subscribe to Rudy Rucker Podcasts. The post Podcast #48. HYLOZOIC, Chap 6, with Q&A, Dark Carnival Books. first appeared on Rudy's Blog .

July 11, 2009. Charlie Jane Anders introduces Rudy on her live show, Writers With Drinks, at the Make-Out Room bar in San Francisco. Rudy reads from Chapter 9: Live Sex, of HYLOZOIC. Subscribe to Rudy Rucker Podcasts. The post Podcast #47. HYLOZOIC Chap 9 at Writers With Drinks, SF. first appeared on Rudy's Blog .

June 10, 2009. A half-hour reading with a half-hour of questions and answers. Reading from Chapter Two of HYLOZOIC at Books Inc. in Mountain View, CA. Subscribe to Rudy Rucker Podcasts. The post Podcast #46. HYLOZOIC, Reading with Q&A. Books Inc. first appeared on Rudy's Blog .

March 23, 2009. Rudy reads the first chapter of his novel in progress at an Electronic Freedom Foundation benefit at the 111 Minna Gallery in San Francisco. Subscribe to Rudy Rucker Podcasts. The post Podcast #45. JIM AND THE FLIMS, San Francisco. EFF at 111 Minna. first appeared on Rudy's Blog .

I looked up some pictures of the sun the other day. The Royal Swedish Academy’s Institute for Solar Physics made some nice photos with the Swedish Solar Telescope in 2002. That’s a sunspot in the middle, and those tube-like lines flowing into it are called spicules, or solar flux tubes. (I’ve long hypothesized that these […] The post Inside a Sun first appeared on Rudy's Blog .