Rudy Rucker Podcasts

Today I’m posting the text of my story, “Laser Shades” for your holiday reading pleasure. The story was commissioned for The Superlative Light, a photo book by Robert Shults, but it has not been otherwise published as yet. Two news items before my story. The writer and columnist Damien Walter posted “Let the Strangeness In,” […] The post “Laser Shades,” A Free Read! And Transrealism News. first appeared on Rudy's Blog.

Here’s my third and final post of pictures from Geneva and Paris today—but first a few announcements before our scheduled show. I’m into resurrecting my archives these days, and I’ve been moving a number of my old videos onto my YouTube channel. Recent additions include a “Brain Food” playlist: six videos of me talking about […] The post Trip #3. My YouTube Channel. Giant Ants. Paris. 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.

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 Space? first appeared on Rudy's Blog.

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! first appeared on Rudy's Blog.

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.