So, okay, I downloaded my 12-year Twitter archive. 850 Meg ZIP. Unzip, and I have an HTML plust two directories of “data and asssets” — — and the HTML shows all my tweets from 2010 to 2022 online as a single page. I ripped out some of the Twitter code…

This is a free online excerpt of my book The Fourth Dimension. Text Copyright © Rudy Rucker 2016. Drawings Copyright © David Povilaitis 2016. Purchase paperback or ebook editions from Dover Publications or Amazon. WHY DOES TRAVEL have to be so hard? The perfect vehicle is easy to imagine: a…

In 2019 I spent a week rereading William Gibson’s 2014 novel The Peripheral. I read it on my Kindle, and made these highlighted passages into a blog post, separating the quotes with photos of mine. Photos always, in a surrealist sense, go with any words. I block-quoted my chosen passages…

I’ve published twelve visionary Silicon Valley novels. It’s time people checked them out. My family and I moved to Silicon Valley in 1986, and we never looked back. I had a job teaching computer science at San Jose State, and for while I worked as a software engineer at Autodesk…

Most of the material in this blog post is drawn from an email interview of me by my old pal John Shirley, for the terrific new ezine Instant Future , run by Brock Hinzmann and John. As is my usual fashion, for my version I added some photos and paintings…

The grief is still quite harsh; it comes and goes. But it’s getting better. A couple of weeks ago, alone in the supermarket I was still lost in a haze of regret. All the things I didn’t do, or did wrong. Even though, in her last months, Sylvia told me…

This post is based on an email interview that my long-time corrspondent Giulio Prisco made with me for his own website, Turing Church. Born in Italy, Giulio now lives in Budapest with his Hungarian wife. GP1: Let’s start with Juicy Ghosts. Your concept of lifebox immortality proposes a deep database…

Rudy Rucker is a writer, mathematician and painter; author of The Ware Tetralogy Big Echo: Your relation to mainstream SF is somewhat skewed, in fact you’re even skewed relative to the cyberpunk genre you helped found. I see your writing as relating to the genealogy of Dick and Vonnegut and…

I wrote this in 1982, and it appeared in a Boulder, CO, literary magazine called New Blood, July, 1982. It can also be found in my Complete Stories. In 1982, the literary arm of the Naropa Institute in Boulder, Colorado, was directed by Allen Ginsberg and Anne Waldman, and was…