Boing Boing (Free subscription) | 18/11/2008
Rudy Rucker's posted an excerpt from his memoir-in-progress, Nested Scrolls, recounting the early days of the cyberpunk literary movement, in which drugged-out weirdos from around America discovered each other and were abused by science fiction fans: I’d meet the other canonical cyberpunk, John Shirley, two years later, when we were both staying with Bruce and Nancy Sterling in Austin,...
Click World News (Free subscription) | 18/11/2008
Rudy Rucker's posted an excerpt from his memoir-in-progress, Nested Scrolls, recounting the early days of the cyberpunk literary movement, in which drugged-out weirdos from around America discovered each other and were abused by science fiction fans: I’d meet the other canonical cyberpunk, John Shirley, two years later, when we were both staying with Bruce and Nancy Sterling in Austin,...
Laughing Squid (Free subscription) | 02/12/2008
... [...] Related posts: - Food Court Musical, A Spontaneous Musical In A Mall - Cory Doctorow & Rudy Rucker at SF in SF - Western Spaghetti, Stop-Motion Animation by PES - The Eclectic Instruments of Electric Western
SF Signal (Free subscription) | 19/11/2008
... TV entitled Supernatural Investigator , which premieres Tuesday, January 27 2009. Sweet deal! Rudy Rucker on the early days of cyberpunk . [via Yatterings ] Artist Bob Eggleton is getting his Mars on . The BBC has posted a huge archive collection of Doctor Who documents and images detailing the show's origins. Check out The genesis of Doctor Who . [via Outpost Gallifrey ] Lists: @AstroEngine:...
Cosmic Variance (Free subscription) | 03/11/2008
... Its prophets were science fiction writers of the highest rank: Stanislaw Lem, Vernor Vinge, Rudy Rucker, and pretty much the entire Cyberpunk movement and its offspring — William Gibson, Bruce Stering, Neall Stephenson, Charles Stross, to name but a few favorites. Credit is also due to the visionary computer scientist (and Unabomber victim) David Gelertner, whose book “Mirror Worlds”...
The Remote Viewer (Free subscription) | 02/11/2008
... were Roger Zelanzky’s Lord of Light (1968), Bertil Mårtensson’s Detta är verkligheten (1968) and Rudy Rucker’s Software (1979). Since then, mind emulation (“uploading”) has become a staple of much science fiction23. The idea of mind uploading is a little improbable currently, but the paper looks fairly grounded in actual science. Posted by Mike at 5:35 PM Labels: Artificial Intelligence...
io9 (Free subscription) | 31/10/2008
... The most realistic characters are often based closely on your friends or people you've met, says Rudy Rucker, Philip K. Dick-winning author of the -Ware novels and Postsingular. That goes double for your aliens, A.I.s and robots, he adds. It's always better to copy your friends than to lift from "received ideas about how SF characters might behave. Who wants to see yet another a humorless...
Rudy's Blog (Free subscription) | 31/10/2008
... other introductory literature students always to check out the Masterplots volumes under the name Rudy Rucker. At least in science you didn’t have to read a whole lot of crap. I had a vague notion of majoring in physics and inventing an antigravity machine, but physics turned out not be my strong suit either. After a grueling semester of Mechanics and Wave Motion—in which I tried...
SF Signal (Free subscription) | 26/10/2008
... (2003) " The Wrong Grave " by Kelly Link " Pooka and the Pryanik " by Sarah Prineas " Qlone " by Rudy Rucker " Computer Entertainment Thirty-Five Years From Today " by Bruce Sterling @ Electric Velocipede : " The Oldest Man on Earth " by Patrick O'Leary. " Sitting Round the Stewpot " by Patricia Russo. " Notes on the Dissection of an Imaginary Beetle " by Jonathan Wood.
Pharyngula (Free subscription) | 22/10/2008
I am well aware that lately there have been several horrifying blog posts here, of a nature that might make a rational liberal want to hide under her bed or move to Scandinavia or something. So how about this for a change: Rudy Rucker has an article on the portrayal of sex in science fiction which will either titillate or weird you out. I suspect the difference will be on whether you...
