Rudy Rucker Podcasts

October 24, 2008, Rudy reads from his novel at an evening of steampunk readings hosted by SF in SF as part of LitQuake. Taped and posted by Rick Kleffel of Trashotron. Subscribe to Rudy Rucker Podcasts. The post Podcast #44. Eddie Poe in THE HOLLOW EARTH. Litquake Steampunk. first appeared on Rudy's Blog .

October 10, 2008. My story about levels of infinity beyond alef-one. Appeared online in the webzine www. Tor.com, and in my COMPLETE STORIES. Subscribe to Rudy Rucker Podcasts. The post Podcast #43. “Jack and the Actuals,” for Tor.com first appeared on Rudy's Blog .

September 27, 2008. San Francisco. Rudy talks for about half an hour about aspects of sex in science fiction, then answers questions for another half hour. This event was at a conference organized by monochrom. Subscribe to Rudy Rucker Podcasts. The post Podcast #42. Talk. “Sex and Science Fiction” at Arse Elektronika. first appeared on Rudy's Blog .

On Friday, Sept 26, 2008, I was part of a group reading of sex-related SF stories at the Center for Sex & Culture, 1519 Mission Street near 11th, San Francisco…it was good stuff. I read from The Sex Sphere. Richard Kadrey read a story about spacers with hollowed out bodies and aliens living inside them, […] The post Talk on “Sex and Science Fiction” first appeared on Rudy's Blog .

My 19993 Christmas story, “Easy as Pie,” is now online as part of a podcast radio show from the crew at Starship Sofa in Scotland. And here’s the permalink for the show with my story. The show also includes a poem by Laurel Winter, and a science rap by Peter Watts. If you’re eager to […] The post “Easy As Pie” in Audio. Got Bokeh? first appeared on Rudy's Blog .

May 20, 2008. A twenty minute reading from my novel POSTSINGULAR, followed by a difficult Q&A period. This was a Google Tech Talk on the Google campus, hosted by Director of Research, Peter Norvig. Subscribe to Rudy Rucker Podcasts. The post Podcast #41. POSTSINGULAR and Q&A at Google. first appeared on Rudy's Blog .

April 5, 2008. Rick Kleffel interviews Rudy about a pending lawsuit trying to halt construction of a new supercollider — plaintiff fears the high energy collisions may pop a hole in space. Rudy talks about a similar event in his novel SPACELAND. Excerpts appeared on NPR, and on Rick’s Trashotron.com site. Subscribe to Rudy Rucker […] The post Podcast #40. Interview: by Rick Kleffel, A Hole In Spac...

December 20, 2007. A taped phone interview with Jason Rennie on his “Sci Phi Show” site. The topic is my novel POSTSINGULAR. Sound quality is so-so. Subscribe to Rudy Rucker Podcasts. The post Podcast #39. Interview on POSTSINGULAR. Sci Phi Show. first appeared on Rudy's Blog .

This seems to be Renaissance Man week in Ruckerland. On Friday night (tomorrow), I’m doing a never-to-be-repeated real-time live computer graphics Capow light show for a Bach concert by the the Galax Quartet, with triple harp by Cheryl Ann Fulton, featuring a new Bach-based composition by Roy Whelden, “Loose Canons.” I’m renting a honkin’ big […] The post Bach with a Cellular Automata Lightshow!...

November 13, 2007. Thirty-five minute reading from Chapter Three of POSTSINGULAR, followed by twenty minute Q&A at the Booksmith in San Francisco. Subscribe to Rudy Rucker Podcasts. The post Podcast #41. POSTSINGULAR, Chap 3, Booksmith. first appeared on Rudy's Blog .

May 16, 2007. A reading of my story “The Imitation Game,” about the last days of computer pioneer Alan Turing and his persecution by the British secret service. This time, Turing wins… The story appeared in INTERZONE magazine, and as Chapter One of my 2012 novel, TURING & BURROUGHS. Reading at monthly “SF in SF” […] The post Podcast #40 “The Imitation Game”, SF. first appeared on Rudy's Blog .

March 7, 2007. Follow up to my Sunnyvale Library talk about writing. I introduce and read the short-short story “Panpsychism Proved” from my MAD PROFESSOR anthology. And then we have Q&A. Subscribe to Rudy Rucker Podcasts. The post Podcast #39. “Panpsychism Proved” with Q&A. first appeared on Rudy's Blog .

March 7, 2007. A talk at the Sunnyvale Library about my life as a writer. Discussion of how I became a writer, my career, how I work, and some of my techniques. Subscribe to Rudy Rucker Podcasts. The post Podcast #38. Talk. “My Life as a Writer”, Sunnyvale. first appeared on Rudy's Blog .

Jan 30, 2007. Reading from “Mathematicians in Love” at City Lights Books in San Francisco. Good sound quality. Reading from the “Hundred Percent” concert scene plus Q&A. A big thrill for me to read at City Lights, the veritable Vatican of Beat. Subscribe to Rudy Rucker Podcasts. The post Podcast #37. MATHEMATICIANS IN LOVE with Q&A, City Lights, SF. first appeared on Rudy's Blog .

January 18, 2007. The question and answer segment of my MATHEMATICIANS IN LOVE reading at Black Oak Books on Shattuck St., in Berkeley, CA, January 18, 2007. Subscribe to Rudy Rucker Podcasts. The post Podcast #36. Q&A on writing, Berkeley, Black Oak Books. first appeared on Rudy's Blog .

January 16, 2007. The question and answer segment of my MATHEMATICIANS IN LOVE reading at Booksmith on Haight St., SF, CA. Subscribe to Rudy Rucker Podcasts. The post Podcast #35. Q&A on writing, San Francisco, Booksmith. first appeared on Rudy's Blog .

Jan 11, 2007. Rick Kleffel interviews Rudy for his “Agony Column” webzine/podcast. Interview was done in the KUSP studios near the beach in Santa Cruz, January 11, 2007. We talked about cyberpunk, transrealism, Mathematicians in Love, and Mad Professor. See http://www.trashotron.com/agony/news/2007/01-15-07.htm#11507 Subscribe to Rudy Rucker Podcasts. The post Podcast #34. KUSP Interview: Rick Kle...

Oct 23, 2006. “Boing Boing” editors Mark Frauenfelder and David Pescovitz interview author and mathematician Rudy Rucker about his two upcoming books:” Mad Professor” and “Mathematicians in Love.” Subscribe to Rudy Rucker Podcasts. The post Podcast #33. Interview by Boing Boing on MATHEMATICIANS IN LOVE first appeared on Rudy's Blog .

May 18, 2006. Talk on “The Lifebox, the Seashell and the Soul” at LucasFilm in the Presidio in San Francisco. See slides . See photos on the May 19, 2006 entry of Rudy’s Blog. Subscribe to Rudy Rucker Podcasts. The post Podcast #32. “Gnarly Computation,” At LucasFilm, SF. first appeared on Rudy's Blog .

April 20, 2006. Talk on “The Lifebox, the Seashell and the Soul” at Fresno State. See slides . Subscribe to Rudy Rucker Podcasts. The post Podcast #31. “Gnarly Computation,” Fresno State U. first appeared on Rudy's Blog .

Audio files for podcasts #17-#29 are gone, due to bit rot and unreliable hosts… Onward! April 18, 2006. Reading “Chu and the Nants.” This story is in the June, 2006, edition of ISAAC ASIMOV’S SF magazine. It also serves as part of the first chapter of POSTSINGULAR. The reading was at The New College on […] The post Podcast #30. (#17 – #29 are Gone.) “Chu and the Nants”. New College, in SF. first a...

I went for a 60th birthday hike up at Castle Rock Park on Skyline Drive yesterday with Emilio, a software engineer whom I initially got to know as an occasional commenter on this blog, and who I then got to know better as a student in my Computers and Philosophy class at SJSU last fall. […] The post Castle Rock Ramble, John Gardner’s “Art of Fiction” first appeared on Rudy's Blog .

Dec 9, 2005. My final lecture in my Philosophy and Computers class at SJSU in Fall, 2005. Based on Chapter 6 of my tome, “The Lifebox, the Seashell, and the Soul.” Includes discussion of my ambivalence about how to end the book, panpsychism, ontologies, unsolvability, computational equivalence, unpredictability, undecidability, and my six principles on how […] The post Podcast #16. Philosophy & Co...

Dec 2, 2005. Lecture on Chapter 5 of “The Lifebox, the Seashell, and the Soul”. Flocking behaviors, how conversations can exemplify different computation classes, the hive mind of society, the nature of language, the ubiquity of social power laws. (If you want to follow the computer demos, download the “Boppers” and “CAPOW” programs from the […] The post Podcast #15. Philosophy & Computers 8: Hive...

Nov 17, 2005. Lecture on the second half of Chapter Four of “The Lifebox, the Seashell, and the Soul.” Arguing that a computer program can be conscious, and that this will happen within a hundred years. (48.27MB. min.) Subscribe to Rudy Rucker Podcasts. The post Podcast #14. Philosophy and Computers 7: Consciousness. first appeared on Rudy's Blog .