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Art Show & Reading At Borderlands Books
[My Borderlands art show has been extended until Tuesday, March 26, 2013. Stop by in March if you haven't seen it yet! There's still a number of good bargains on sale.] I’m venturing forth from my...
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Teep Scenes
So I’m still working on my novel The Big Aha. I reached the halfway point about a week ago. And then I ran into what my old mentor Robert Sheckley called a “black point.” I can’t see the land that I...
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The “Bogosity Generator” Tool In Science Fiction
As most of you probably know, filmmakers use the term “MacGuffin” to stand for some object that various characters in the tale are competing for. A secret paper, a formula, a stunning gem, a statue of...
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“The Two Gods,” 4D, Networked Matter
I’ve been writing a lot lately, working on my novel The Big Aha, and on a short story called “Apricot Lane.” I also gave a guest lecture at UC Berkeley and participated in a workshop at the Institute...
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Leviathan Eats Us Via 4D Einstein-Rosen Bridges!
I had a big SF revelation this week, a breakthrough for my story. Today’s post will include some illustratiave drawings, also some semi-relevant or irrelevant (but nice-looking) photos. I’m still...
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On the Road, Satori, and The Big Aha
I feel like I’m the only person I know who saw the movie version of Kerouac’s On the Road recently. I liked it a lot, I saw it twice—the first time on it’s release date, which was also my 67th...
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Gnarl All Around
I’ve accumulated a backlog of photos to blog, but I don’t have any long essay-type thoughts today. All my energy is going into The Big Aha, which is about 80% done. I’m pushing pretty hard on it....
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Golden Gate Bridge, Futurism, & the SF Biz
My wife and I were up at the Marin headlands and at the Cavallo Point Lodge in the Fort Baker Park this week. It was a conference sponsored by the Institute for the Future (IFTF), and organized by...
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The Lick Observatory on Mount Hamilton
I mentioned that I went to watch the Science Fiction Writer’s of America Nebula Awards meeting in downtown San Jose last week. Right next door in the San Jose convention center was a comics convention,...
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Kickstarter For THE BIG AHA
The big news today is that I’ve launched a Kickstarter project to fund the publication of The Big Aha, the novel I’ve been working on for roughly a year. I’m already getting a good response—and thank...
View ArticleThe Big Aha. (More Brussels Pix.)
Today I’ll post some more pictures of Brussels, with comments. And in the main text I’ll put some notes towards a novel I’m trying to start. The book’s title is probably The Big Aha. I’ve blogged some...
View ArticleHow To Get BIG AHA. A Few More Brussels Pix.
So today I’m posting some more about The Big Aha, and I’ll be using images from Brussels and some older images from Point Reyes. As I mentioned, the reason I was in Brussels was to give a TEDx talk....
View Article“Telepathy”. Effects of Big Aha.
I just finished a new painting yesterday, I call it “The Lovers.” “The Lovers,” by Rudy Rucker, 24 x 20 inches, January, 2012, Oil on canvas. Click for a larger version of the picture. The idea is that...
View ArticleFuture Ads. Fun with Wacky Matter.
I’m still flapping, still trying to get fully airborne on my intended next novel, The Big Aha. But today instead of flapping, I’m playing with my blog. As so often happens here, the pictures have very...
View ArticleSkungy Art. “Surfing the Gnarl.” Read Feb 7, Feb 11.
I have a couple of upcoming readings on Feb 7 and Feb 11, but first I want to tell you about my new painting , Loulou and Skungy. “Loulou and Skungy,” oil on canvas, February, 2012, 30” x 30”. Click...
View ArticleEpic Dorkbot SF
My son Rudy and I both did presentations at the Dorkbot San Francisco meeting. Dorkbot has groups in cities around the world. Their motto: “People Doing Strange Things With Electricity.” The Dorkbot...
View ArticleEclipse, Publishing, Transreal Books
There was a cool partial annular eclipse of the sun here in the SF Bay Area last week. It was about 6:30 pm, and the sun was going behind the hill that I live on, so I walked up the street to get a...
View ArticleHype and Anti-Hype
Hype and Anti-Hype I’ve been lost in a fog of hype for months now—what with promoting my Nested Scrolls autobio this winter, putting out Flurb #13 and converting it into an ebook, and recently spending...
View ArticleBeing a Visiting Writer in Gloucester
I visited the Writers Center in Gloucester, Mass, for a week. My wife Sylvia was along as well. We were lodged in the modest former home of the late Vincent Ferrini, a friend of Charles Olson’s and a...
View ArticleCC “Turing & Burroughs.”“Rapture of Nerds.” Telepathy.
This week I read a free Creative Commons licensed version of a novel on my Kindle. And that set me to thinking that I should do a CC release of Turing & Burroughs. In the past, I’ve done this for...
View ArticleSF Religion 2: Xiantific Mysticism
I’m presently working on a novel called The Big Aha in which I might have my characters be involved in a religion based on the experience of telepathy. The telepathy is brought on by a (SFictional)...
View ArticleSF Religion 3: Qwet
This is my third post on SF religion, and I probably won’t post on this again for awhile. I’m interested in the topic these days as I’d like to have the founding of a religion be a plot element in my...
View ArticleThe Two Mind Modes. Telepathy.
I’ve been circling around and around some ideas that I want to use in my next novel, The Big Aha. In today’s post, I’ll expand on some of the remarks in my October 15, 2012, post, “SF Religion 3:...
View ArticleMagic Mirror Paintings
My character Joey Moon says he’s an artist. He wanted his friend Morton Plant to show his work in an art gallery, but Joey wouldn’t tell Morton the gallery-owner what his work looks like. So at this...
View Article“A Night of Telepathy.” Hidden Aliens.
I’ve been posting about telepathy or teep recently. And in the novel I’m working on, The Big Aha, my characters Morton Plant and Loulou Sabado are now connected by teep. “Night of Telepathy,” oil on...
View ArticleJoey Goes Chimera
Most of my writing energy is going into my novel these days, The Big Aha. It’s only when I’m in a special kind of mode that I manage to blog a lot. Today’s offering? A short uttake from The Big Aha,...
View ArticleSFictional Higher Realities
I like thinking about a higher or alternate forms of reality. In The Big Aha, I want to give my characters access to a more cosmic or far-out level. And then some of my characters learn to jump bodily...
View ArticleGubs and Raths
I want to write about some creatures called gubs in my novel The Big Aha. A gub is a small green pig from the Higher World, about the size of a football, with floppy triangular ears, and in place of a...
View ArticleCosmic Fairyland #2: The Third Eye.
In my current series of posts, I’ve mostly been discussing ideas for my novel in progress, The Big Aha. Recently I was been talking about a cosmic/robotic flip between two mental modes—see my October...
View ArticleFantasy and/or Science Fiction
This’ll be my last post of 2012. Lots of family coming to town, hooray. We had a festive lunch at the Fairmont hotel in SF this weekend. Dig the Xmas tree reflected in the grand piano. “Why can’t it...
View ArticleFun Boschian Nurb Scene from BIG AHA
Some fun reading for the holiday week, a new passage from my novel in progress, The Big Aha. A half hour later, the five of us were riding up a curving nurb-grass driveway in Glenview—me, Dad, Loulou,...
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