#rudy rucker

[funeral]

Rudy Rucker, Geometry, Relativity, and the Fourth Dimension

#rudy rucker #diagram #torus #cosmology #p

[stephenist]

Rudy Rucker has posted free epub, mobi and webpage formats of the seminal sci-fi cyberpunk anthology ➡️ Mirrorshades. ⬅️

#og #cyberpunk #science fiction #sci fi #this and burning chrome are what got me started back in the day #mirrorshades #greg bear #pat cadigan #bruce sterling #william gibson #rudy rucker #lewis shiner #john shirley #tom maddox #marc laidlaw #james patrick kelly #paul di filippo

[cyberianlife]

This is a free online edition of Mirrorshades, as edited by Bruce Sterling.

Posted by Rudy Rucker, September 28, 2022. And with a prayer for Tom Maddox.

Browse the book!

#mirrorshades #bruce sterling #rudy rucker #scifi #cyberpunk

[tachyonpub]

#terry bisson #san francisco #Ramsey Kanaan #Peter Maravelis #Diana Block #Karen Joy Fowler #Jonathan Lethem #Nick Mamatas #Kim Stanley Robinson #Rudy Rucker #carter shulz #city lights #pm press #locus #the lost chuch #the lost church

[spaceintruderdetector]

https://archive.org/details/ylem-journal-v25i10_12

#science fiction literature #science fiction #sf #brian aldiss #michael moorcock #rudy rucker #cyberpunk

[protoslacker]

My wife Sylvia died on January 6, 2023. We had a memorial service for her at St. Luke’s Episcopal Church in Los Gatos on February 4. It was a beautiful service. At Sylvia’s request we draped her quilts over the pews. We had a big crowd, over 130 people in the little church, everyone brimming.

Rudy Rucker

#eulogy #Sylvia Rucker #Rudy Rucker

[apostleofthreedimensions]

The Fourth Dimension: Toward a Geometry of Higher Reality is one of the several books of Rudy Rucker's that mentions Flatland. There's only a free preview on Google, but I have been reading what's available and it's really good and has some interesting questions and theories on Flatland

#I'll put the link in the replies #Flatland #The fourth dimension rudy rucker

[brucesterling]

The V. Vale Value-Pak

*Who reads the bizarre, out-there maunderings of this eccentric San Francisco punk publisher known to the world as "V. Vale," well, obviously Rudy Rucker and Bruce Sterling both do.

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I started reading at age four and early on began memorizing “aphorisms”, although I didn’t learn that word till much later. 

My earliest books that were really mine were some volumes of The Book of Knowledge, which introduced me to extreme history and anthropology (the gladiator conflicts in the Roman Coliseum games; an article on New Guinea natives, etc). 

I had an illustrated paperback on “world’s weirdest animals” (not the real title; can’t remember that) which introduced me to genre-crossing life forms like the platypus, the Komodo dragon, the Bower Bird, etc. 

The real eye-opener was a hardback medical textbook which contained a close-up B&W photograph of the genitals of a hermaphrodite (!). So when I found myself hanging out in libraries, did I restrict myself to children’s books? No; I looked at every book in the library, regardless of “category”.

Recently RE/SEARCH published a book (thanks to a brilliant assistant editor) called Quotes by Vale. I just turned at random to a quote on page 102: 

“CORPORATE MEDIA: Whatever the OFFICIAL NARRATIVE, the Real Truth is Always The Opposite”. 

And that in a nutshell is my driving motivation to publish. That’s it!

We’re about to enter 2024 — that year will mark my 47th year as a publisher (since the first issue of Search & Destroy). 

And that’s when the idea of a V. VALE VALUE-PAK hit me! So obvious I never thought of it before!

I’ve spent my whole life promoting OTHER PEOPLE, so now maybe I can at least TRY to induce people to read my own writing and thoughts. 

Well, they actually appear in all RE/Search books, although less obviously.

So, why not?

The V. Vale Valu-Pak contains...

My most recent books:

1.UNDERGROUND LIVING: V. Vale Photos (color and B&W, with an insightful introduction by author Rudy Rucker)

2. MESSAGE FROM YOUR EDITOR (essays from the past 20 years, with a brilliant introduction by author Bruce Sterling)

3. VALE QUOTES (my aphorisms)

My two zines:

4. HOW TO READ (includes HOW TO WRITE, a 1-page zine)

5. TERMINAL PUNK (my attempt to write the “best” “philosophy of punk” publication)

The 4 zines that cartoonist extraordinaire Krusty Wheatfield did on V. Vale:

6. SEARCH FOR WEIRD #0

7. SEARCH FOR WEIRD #1+2

8. SEARCH FOR WEIRD #3

9. HOW TO STAY TOGETHER FOREVER

I hope that at least a few readers of this newsletter will take a chance and order the V. VALE VALU-PAK, aided and abetted by a big discount. 

Total retail value is usually $135… but we offer a 20% off New Year special price: $105!

And in the US you’ll only pay $5 shipping. 

But the offer expires on Friday night (Jan 5, 2024). 

I’m still having trouble sleeping (uh, thanks for all your suggestions) so maybe THAT'S why my brain thought of this (hare-brained) “idea”?!?

Here’s the link with all the details: 

Thanks for reading this far,

Your Editor,

V. Vale

V. Vale New Year's ValuPak

Three books and 6 zines featuring V. Vale “front and center”! Get all of the V. Vale items at an OVER 20% discount: $135 value for $105. New Year’s Special through Friday night Jan 5, 2024.

$105.00Shop

RE/Search Publications 20 Romolo #B San Francisco, CA, 94133 US 

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[arconinternet]

The Ware Trilogy: Software, Wetware, Freeware & Realware (Books, Rudy Rucker, 1982/1988/1997/2000)

Rudy Rucker's biopunk novel series. You can digitally borrow it all here.

#internet archive #book #books #scifi #sci fi #science fiction #sci fi novels #scifi novel #science fiction novel #biopunk #book cover #book covers #cover art #1982 #1988 #1997 #2000 #1980s #80s #1990s #90s #2000s #00s

[cosmicanger]

Rudy Rucker, Geometry, Relativity, and the Fourth Dimension

[presidentcircles-assistant]

the little drawings in Rudy Rucker’s book ‘The Fourth Dimension’ are so cute omg

#flatland #flatland 1884 #LOOK AT HIM

[russiantsarlag]

‘Software’ by Rudy Rucker

[mostlysignssomeportents]

This day in history

#20yrsago Fiction, interview and review online at Strange Horizons https://web.archive.org/web/20030402125015/http://www.strangehorizons.com/Contents.html

#20yrsago Atwood: America is selling itself out https://www.thenation.com/article/archive/letter-america-3/

#15yrsago Hackers publish thousands of copies of fingerprint of German Minister who promotes fingerprint biometrics https://www.wired.com/2008/03/hackers-publish/

#15yrsago Dangers of a giant national database — article from 1967 was eerily prescient https://web.archive.org/web/20080401215049/http://blog.modernmechanix.com/2008/03/31/the-national-data-center-and-personal-privacy/

#5yrsago Rudy Rucker’s science fiction webzine Flurb #5 is out https://web.archive.org/web/20080305030119/http://www.flurb.net/

#15yrsago Homeless people disguised as stranded tourists sleep on Heathrow’s benches https://content.time.com/time/subscriber/article/0,33009,1729692,00.html

#10yrsago Nevada State Legislature poised to take regulation of Burning Man away from state and local cops https://burners.me/2013/03/30/the-man-vs-the-man-will-local-authorities-be-booted-from-burning-man/

#10yrsago TSA routinely violates own rules and the law to discriminate against people w/disabilities https://s.ai/tsa/

#5yrsago Dutch panic over infiltration of an apostate Scientology-alike into education and government https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-43584884

#5yrsago Under Armour: hackers stole the data of 150,000,000 Myfitnesspal users because of course they did https://www.reuters.com/article/us-under-armour-databreach/under-armour-says-150-million-myfitnesspal-accounts-breached-idUSKBN1H532W

#pluralistic

[spaceintruderdetector]

https://archive.org/details/complete-stories-2021-by-rudy-rucker/mode/2up

#rudy rucker #science fiction #cyberpunk #slipstream fiction #literature

[scifiseries]

1991 ad for "The Difference Engine" in Mondo2000 magazine, with a book review by Rudy Rucker

#scifiseries #steampunk #scifi

[h3rbdotpdf]

Bizarre Funny Based Sci-fi

I cant seem to find what I’m looking for so maybe you all could help me.

Two books that are drastically different but also so intimately similar are Turing and Borroughs by Rudy Rucker and The Female Man by Joanna Russ. They’re both incredibly bizarre and philosphical queer sci-fi books but aside from the plots the writing styles of these two authors I feel is very similar.

They both write from the perspective of the reader being inside someones head and privy to all their thoughts feeling and motivations yet also write in a very matter of fact way about all the bizarre goingsons which lends itself to the humor of the story.

I desperately need more books like this. Not in plot or content, although stories written by leftists and anarachists do tend to be fun, but in writing style! Please god!

#bookblr #scifi #joannaruss #rudyrucker #book recs pls #book recs wanted #book rec request