Rudy Rucker Podcasts: Recent Episodes
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June 19, 2026. Talk on writer bots, and rising above them by using transrealism and an awareness of reality at large. At a High Castle dinner hosted by the Point Reyes Reality Investigation Center (PRRIC), led by David Gill. Taped by Paul Shelton. Funded by Chris. Press the arrow below to play “The New AI, Writer […]
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March 7, 2025. My daughter Isabel Rucker had an art show on “The Time Ecosystem“at the one-of-a-kind Larry Spring Museum in Fort Bragg, California. Larry Spring was what you might call a folk scientist and an outsider artist. For Isabel’s show, she formed fresh ideas about notions of time, and how they mix together. She […]
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June 23, 2024. Reading my anti-gun “Big Germs” story at the SF in SF meeting. In memory of Terry Bisson. Press the arrow below to play “Big Germs.” I’m using the new .m4a sound file format instead of the old .mp3, if you have a prob you mignt need to update your player. And, if […]
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May 19, 2023. This story relates to the death of my wife Sylvia. I read it an SF in SF event in January, 2023, and it was recorded by Rusty Hodge for SomaFM. The story appeared as online text in Nature Futures on Feb 15, 2023. Press the arrow below to play Rusty’s recording of […]
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August 1, 2022. I was invited to give a plenary lecture at the Bridges group’s “Mathematics & Art” conference in Helsinki, Finland. Over my long career, I’ve used math, computer graphics, writing, and painting as ways to express myself, and to get clearer images of certain things that interest me. Four channels, all looking at […]
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January 15, 2020.Repost of an enjoyable podcast by Space Cowboy Books in Joushua Tree, near the Mohave Desert, performing my story “Fat Stream.” Cast: Jean-Paul Garnier, Zara Kand, Patricia Thomson, Tamara Good, RedBlueBlackSilver, and music by Phog Masheeen. Great show. Thanks to all. Here’s the Space Cowboy “Simultaneous Times” podcast site. And they’re on Bandcamp […]
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November 13, 2019. Julia Grillmayr of Vienna interviewed me for her podcast show, Superscience Me, and her episode is on her site, lightly edited, with an intro, and with some nice electronic background music. Here I repost my raw version of the interview as a Rudy Rucker Podcasts episode. The sound quality is great; Julia […]
The post Podcast #111. “The Future, Jellyfish, Cyberpunk and the Transreal.” first appeared on Rudy's Blog.
October 26, 2019. Discussing and reading from Million Mile Roadtrip. And reminiscing about the late, great, and wonderful Michael Blumlein. Press the arrow below to play “Million Mile Road Trip. And Memories of Michael Blumlein.” And, if you like, Subscribe to Rudy Rucker Podcasts.
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June 25, 2019. “Juicy Ghost 2019” is a fairly intense political SF story. For more on the story, and the full text, see my June 24 blog post, or check out my anthology Complete Stories. Press the arrow below to play “Juicy Ghost.” And, if you like, Subscribe to Rudy Rucker Podcasts.
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April 18, 2019. Talk at IOHK Summit conference in Miami Beach. 20 min. Lifebox, Natural Language, Telepathy, Immortality. Slides draft and an audio link on Rudy’s Blog at https://www.rudyrucker.com/blog/2019/04/16/lifebox-for-telepathy-and-immortality/ Press arrow below to play here. Or Subscribe to Rudy Rucker Podcasts.
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April 18, 2019. Talk at the IOHK Summit conference in Miami Beach. 20 min. Topics: Cyberpunk, personal web cralwers, telepathy. Slides, draft, and audio on Rudy’s Blog https://www.rudyrucker.com/blog/2019/04/16/cyberpunk-use-cases/ Press arrow below to play here. Or Subscribe to Rudy Rucker Podcasts.
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April 18, 2019. Conversation with Stephen Wolfram while at the IOHK blockchain conference in Miami Beach. Topics: AI, unpredictable computations, the nature of reality. Press the arrow below to play “Rucker & Wolfram on Computation, Reality, and the Mind.” And, if you like, Subscribe to Rudy Rucker Podcasts.
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I gave two presentations at the IOHK Summit in Miami Beach, Florida, April 18, 2019. IOHK is a crypto/blockchain company with the full name Input Output Hong Kong. I gave a small audience the 40 minute talk described below, and a twenty minute talk to a larger audience, “Cyberpunk Use Cases.” This “Lifebox for Telepathy […]
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January 26, 2019. Reading from Return to the Hollow Earth at Borderlands Cafe in SF. I read the part about the shipwreck and Mason and Seela being saved by a flying nautilus and then meeting up with Eddie Poe. Good audience. Skipped Q&A, as I then did an “art tour” of a show of 25 […]
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October 5, 2018. Audio of my talk “Welcome to Your Cyberpunk Future.” Doesn’t include the Q&A. Big, responsive crowd. The slides are online here. I first gave this talk in Louisville, in September 27, 2017, and posted about it then. And KET TV posted a video of the talk (including the Q&A) as well. Thanks […]
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March 6, 2018. Talking to Tim Fitzmaurice’s class at Crown College, UC Santa Cruz. What it’s like to be an SF writer. Cyberpunk and transrealism as revolutionary art. Press the arrow below to play “Podcast #104. My Life as an SF Writer. Cyberpunk and Transrealism.” And, if you like, Subscribe to Rudy Rucker Podcasts.
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August 22, 2017. Audio from interview with Wilson Walker for KPIX evening news, taped August 1, 2017. Topic: If Facebook has chatbots that have developed their own language, what does this mean for AI? Should we be scared or hopeful? Press the arrow below to play “If Chatbots Talk, Where Will AI Go?” And, if […]
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August 21, 2017. Cyberpunk SF story, a draft as read at UC Santa Cruz on February 13, 2017. In this tale, an intense VR streaming show in San Francisco leads to something more. The final revised version was published today on the Mondo 2000 ezine. Press the arrow below to play “Fat Stream.” And, if […]
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May 12, 2017. In conversation with journalist Siobhan Roberts, discussing math, logic, writing, and publishing. Roberts is the author of a great book on the mathematician and cellular-automatist John Horton Conway, Genius at Play. She was out in the Bay Area researching for upcoming projects and came by for a casual chat. Press the arrow […]
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Feb 28, 2017. Interviewed by Christopher Nichols for his podcast, CG Garage. At Los Gatos Coffee Roasting cafe. Relaxed, hour-long discussion about writing, computers, and art. Press the arrow below to play “Podcast #99. Writing, Art, Photos, Computation.” And, if you like, Subscribe to Rudy Rucker Podcasts.
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February 13, 2017. A talk on digital immortality, my novel Software, and the concept of a “lifebox.” Presented at Tim Fitzmaurice’s Core class at Crown College at UC Santa Cruz. Includes wide-ranging Q&A with the students also some remarks and quesitons by Tim. I read an as-yet unpublished story called “Fat Stream,” but I’m not […]
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November 9, 2016. A reading of my story “Like a Sea Cumber,” as part of a literary evening at St. Luke’s church in Los Gatos. The story appeared on the Terraform website. Press the arrow below to play the reading. And, if you like, Subscribe to Rudy Rucker Podcasts.
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Aug 10, 2016. Rudy Rucker reads “Totem Poles,” a wild tale co-written with Bruce Sterling. Appears online on Tor.com today. Press the arrow below to play Rudy reading the story. And, if you like, Subscribe to Rudy Rucker Podcasts.
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June 12, 2016. Michael Blumlein read this essay/memoir called “Unrestrained and Indiscreet” at the SF in SF series in San Francisco, during an event I shared with him. Blumlein’s deep and courageous piece begins with a light-hearted account of naming a minor Sierra peak after the author Henry David Thoreau. The talk progresses to an […]
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June 12, 2016. I read my story “The Knobby Giraffe” at the SF in SF series in San Francisco, an event I shared with with Michael Blumlein, whose piece appears in a separate podcast. “The Knobby Giraffe” appeared in print online in April, 2016, in Lightspeed magazine, and is also available as a Lightspeed podcast, […]
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January 16, 2016. Rudy Rucker reads the Rucker & Sterling story “Junk DNA.” Funny, scary tale of genetic engineering run wild. Appeared in Asimov’s Science Fiction in 2003. Press the arrow below to play “Junk DNA” right now! “Junk DNA” appears in Transreal Cyberpunk, a collection of the nine stories that Rudy & Bruce have […]
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January 16, 2016. Bruce Sterling reads the Rucker & Sterling story “Junk DNA.” Wild, whoop-it-up story where Silicon Valley meets Texas Big Oil. Result? Flying jellyfish. Appeared in Asimov’s Science Fiction in 1994 Press the arrow below to play “Big Jelly” right now! “Big Jelly” appears in Transreal Cyberpunk, a collection of the nine stories […]
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January 14, 2016. Bruce Sterling reads the Rucker & Sterling story “Storming the Cosmos.” Insanely funny atompunk take on early Soviet space program + Tunguska disaster + psychotomimetic Siberian mushrooms + Soviet beatniks + Laika the space dog. Appeared in Asimov’s Science Fiction in 1985. Press the arrow below to play “Storming the Cosmos” right […]
The post Podcast #91. “Storming the Cosmos” from TRANSREAL CYBERPUNK. first appeared on Rudy's Blog.
December 29, 2015. Bruce Sterling reads our joint story “Loco.” An engaging and florid performance. When the story appeared on Tor.com in 2012, Cory Doctorow termed it “the weirdest fucking thing I’ve ever read that managed to still make sense.” Press the arrow below to play “Loco” right now! “Loco” appears in Transreal Cyberpunk, a […]
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December 14, 2015. This week I recorded a reading of “Kraken and Sage,” a brand new, never-before-published story by me and Bruce Sterling. The podcast is about forty-five minutes long. It could be our best joint story ever. It’s about … well, it’s about Bruce and me, but it’s also about runaway biotech and our […]
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December 7, 2015. This week I recorded and produced a reading of “Hormiga Canyon,” a story about giant ants, written by Bruce Sterling and me in 2007. The podcast is about an hour and a half long. It turned out to be quite a bit of work to perform, edit, and produce it—and certainly it […]
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August 11, 2015. Interviewed by author Doug Lain for his podcast Zero Squared. We mostly talked about what it’s like to have a career as a writer, with some mentions of my recent Journals 1990-2014. An edited version of the interview appeared as part of an episode on Lain’s podcast Zero Squared, with better sound […]
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June 28, 2015. At “Beatnik Shindig” event at Fort Mason in SF. I said a few words in praise of V. Vale and Marian Wallace. Then talked on TURING & BURROUGHS, and did Q&A. Sound is pretty good. 20 minutes in all. Subscribe to Rudy Rucker Podcasts.
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June 13, 2015. At Borderlands Books. I read about six passages from Journals 1990-2014, about 45 minutes, including long Q & A. Some passages read are the same as in Santa Cruz Podcast #84, but most are different. Subscribe to Rudy Rucker Podcasts.
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May 1, 2015. Event in Santa Cruz, sponsored by Scott Clements of LOGOS Books. The tape includes part of an introduction by Scott’s partner Andrew, the organizer of the “Santa Cruz College” lecture series. I read about six passages from my Journals 1990-2014, and then we did Q&A. Good sound quality and a lively, responsive […]
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March 24, 2015. Interviewed by Robin Ince for a BBC Channel 4 broadcast on the theme of the Hollow Earth. Tape made in my home by Mark Mollineaux. Doesn’t include Robin Ince’s prompts, just my statements about history of the Hollow Earth concept and about my novel The Hollow Earth. Subscribe to Rudy Rucker Podcasts.
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October 18, 2014. Story read by Rucker at the Lit Crawl 2014 event Dark Lords of Cyberpunk. “The Attack of the Giant Ants” was inspired by the classic B movie THEM. Story appeared in the Motherboard webzine Terraform. Subscribe to Rudy Rucker Podcasts.
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June 11, 2014. Rucker reads his short SF story, “Laser Shades,” written for Robert Shults’s photo book THE SUPERLATIVE LIGHT, which contains photos of the Austin, Texas, Petawatt Laser Lab. Taped in Rucker’s home studio, good sound. Subscribe to Rudy Rucker Podcasts.
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This song is from Roy Whelden’s album LIKE A PASSING RIVER, which was in part inspired by my novel ALL THE VISIONS. “Rucker Songs” is an operatic oratorio featuring the playing of Roy Whelden and the American Baroque quartet, with Karen Clark singing. The words are drawn from intense closing passages of ALL THE VISIONS. […]
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Roy Whelden’s album LIKE A PASSING RIVER includes this recording of me reading from the ending of ALL THE VISIONS, wondering what’s the point of life at all. This recording was made early in 2005. Subscribe to Rudy Rucker Podcasts.
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Roy Whelden’s album LIKE A PASSING RIVER includes this recording of me reading “from the beginning of ALL THE VISIONS, talking about my realization at age 16 that eventually I have to die. This recording was made early in 2005. Subscribe to Rudy Rucker Podcasts.
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April 12, 2014. Reading the climactic rant from my Kerouac scroll novel, ALL THE VISIONS, at the Brainwash laundromat-cafe in the SOMA area of San Francisco for David Gill and his Pravic science-fiction zinesters. Plus a short Q&A on transrealism and the future of SF. About 20 mins long. Subscribe to Rudy Rucker Podcasts.
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March 27, 2014. At Scribd in San Francisco. Introductory discussion of how I wrote BIG AHA, short reading from BIG AHA, extensive Q&A discussion. Good, responsive crowd—Scribd employees. About 45 mins. Thanks to Carrie Jones for organizing the event. Subscribe to Rudy Rucker Podcasts.
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Feb 1, 2014. A talk at the Transhuman Visions conference at Fort Mason in San Francisco. Thirty minutes including the Q&A. Ideas relating to my novel THE BIG AHA. Some good laughs from the crowd. The sound quality is poor, as there was an echo in the hall. Subscribe to Rudy Rucker Podcasts.
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Jan 17, 2014. Opening party for my BIG AHA Paintings show at Borderlands Books in San Francisco, the show from Jan 17 – March 15, 2014. Tape includes my description of my novel THE BIG AHA, two short readings, some Q&A, and my “tour” of the paintings on the walls. To SEE the paintings while […]
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Nov 14, 2013. Computer Science department Colloquium talk on future forms of computation. Given at San Jose State. The slides are here as a PDF file. Talk is about an hour long, with some Q&A. The first five minutes of my talk are missing from the recording. Subscribe to Rudy Rucker Podcasts.
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Aug 29, 2013. Audio of a video filmed for The Counter Culture Hour, public access TV show in San Francisco. Interviewed by V. Vale of RE/Search publications. Lasts a full hour. Rudy’s career and his NESTED SCROLLS memoir, William Burroughs and TURING & BURROUGHS, punk scenes in SF, painting and Peter Bruegel, R’s new novel […]
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May 2, 2013. An interview by Liza Groen Trombi taped for Locus magazine on May 2, 2013. An edited transcript appeared in the June, 2013, issue. Topics include my autobio NESTED SCROLLS, my novel TURING & BURROUGHS, and the novel THE BIG AHA. Subscribe to Rudy Rucker Podcasts.
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March 19, 2013. Teaching a guest class for mathematician Thomas Banchoff at University of San Francisco, discussing concepts of the fourth dimension of space, Abbott’s FLATLAND, and ideas about portals to parallel worlds. Podcast ends with a reading of the second half of the story, “Message Found In A Copy of Flatland.” Subscribe to Rudy […]
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Jan 12, 2013. Talking and reading at Borderlands Books in San Francisco the day of my art show opening there. I discuss my novel “Turing & Burroughs,” and then begin reading a section of it. Due to a technical glitch, the tape cuts off after twenty minutes. Subscribe to Rudy Rucker Podcasts.
The post Podcast #69. Talk & Reading. TURING & BURROUGHS. first appeared on Rudy's Blog.
Sept 22, 2012. A mashup of my essay “Haunted by Phil Dick” and the afterword of my WARES TETRALOGY—discussing my imaginings of PKD and my Dick Award events. Delivered to lively audience at the Philip K. Dick Festival at San Francisco State University, organized by David Gill. In Q&A I I talk about my new […]
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Aug 29, 2012. Rucker’s talk at the Gloucester Writers Center in Gloucester, Mass. With an introduction by Gregory Gibson. Topics are transreal SF and beatnik writing, particularly that of William Burroughs. A reading from TURING & BURROUGHS, followed by Q&A touching on Burroughs’s cut-up technique and on contrasts between fantasy vs. SF. Subscribe to Rudy […]
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July 27, 2012. In conversation with Australian scholar Leon Marvell in my back yard. Topics: TURING & BURROUGHS, Beat literature, self-publishing, transrealism. Subscribe to Rudy Rucker Podcasts.
The post Podcast #66. Interview: Transrealism and TURING & BURROUGHS with Leon Marvell. first appeared on Rudy's Blog.
March 31, 2012. With Terry Bisson and John Shirley at the Anarchist Book Fair, San Francisco. Talking about anarchy in science fiction and in reality and whether SFictional events can free the world. Some Q&A. Subscribe to Rudy Rucker Podcasts.
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March 13, 2012. Interviewed in New York by Jim Freund for his radio show, “Hour of the Wolf.” This interview aired on WBAI on March 21, 2012. About half an hour. Subscribe to Rudy Rucker Podcasts.
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Feb 29, 2012. Reading at the San Francisco Dorkbot gathering, motto: “People doing strange things with electricity.” Reading is “Jane and Me” from the early chapters of a novel in progress with the working title, THE BIG AHA. Subscribe to Rudy Rucker Podcasts.
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Feb 7, 2012. Reading from “Surfing the Gnarl” essay/book and NESTED SCROLLS at Green Arcade books in San Francisco. Some Q&A as well. Introduced by Terry Bisson. Subscribe to Rudy Rucker Podcasts.
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Jan 14, 2012. Reading from NESTED SCROLLS at Borderlands Books in San Francisco, with Q&A. Subscribe to Rudy Rucker Podcasts.
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July 10, 2011. Reading the first chapter of JIM AND THE FLIMS at Borderlands Books in San Francisco, with Q&A on writing. Subscribe to Rudy Rucker Podcasts.
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June 4, 2011. Rick Kleffel leads Rudy and Kim Stanley Robinson in conversation at the Capitola Book Cafe. Rudy is mainly discussing his novel JIM AND THE FLIMS, and Stan is talking about his fantasy-historical novel GALILEO’S DREAM. Subscribe to Rudy Rucker Podcasts.
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Jan 15, 2011.Reading the “Birth of Transrealism” chapter from my memoir, NESTED SCROLLS, at the regular SF in SF gathering in San Francisco. Taped and posted by Rick Kleffel, for his “Agony Column” blog. Subscribe to Rudy Rucker Podcasts.
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The audio for Pocdast #56 is lost, so onward to #57! Jan 15, 2011. Rick Kleffel interview Rudy about THE WARE TETRALOGY, his webzine FLURB, his 2011 memoir NESTED SCROLLS, and his 2011 novel JIM AND THE FLIMS. Subscribe to Rudy Rucker Podcasts.
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October 22, 2010. Interview with Thomas Gideon for his “Command Line” podcast site at thecommandline.net, on POSTSINGULAR, HYLOZOIC and the WARE TETRALOGY. Subscribe to Rudy Rucker Podcasts.
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October 14, 2010. My reading of a story written with Bruce Sterling and published on Tor.com. Transreally speaking, it’s a story about two aging science-fiction writers. I.e., it’s about Bruce and me. This is one of the stories that appears in our 2016 anthology, Rucker + Sterling, Transreal Cyberpunk. Subscribe to Rudy Rucker Podcasts.
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August 14, 2010. I talked a bit about the origins of the “Ware Tetralogy,” read the brain-eating scene from “Software,” a cheeseball vs. moldie scene from “Freeware,” and a juggling moldies scene from “Realware.” And then we had some Q&A. Subscribe to Rudy Rucker Podcasts.
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July 4, 2010. A talk about new ideas for SF. Role of idea in a book or story. A list of some topics that seem interesting to me. Larry Niven was there, but he fell asleep. That’s okay. Q&A. Subscribe to Rudy Rucker Podcasts.
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July 3, 2010. A 45 minute talk on the theory and practice of Transreal SF writing in my novels. Starts with a reading of my 1983 “A Transrealist Manifesto” essay. Q&A at the end. Subscribe to Rudy Rucker Podcasts.
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May 22, 2010. Rudy reads from his four-novel cyberpunk omnibus, THE WARE TETRALOGY at the SF in SF gathering in San Francisco. This clip includes the classic “monkey brain feast” scene from SOFTWARE, and Sta-Hi Mooney’s introduction to the drug “merge” in WETWARE. Subscribe to Rudy Rucker Podcasts.
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Nov 24, 2009. Forty minute talk on my life as a writer, followed by ten minutes of Q&A (the actual questions are hard to hear). Taped by my friend Leon Marvell at Deakin College of the University of Melbourne. Subscribe to Rudy Rucker Podcasts.
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July 12, 2009. A short reading from HYLOZOIC, “Chapter 6: The Peng,” with a lengthy Q&A session about the Singularity and the possibility of human immortality. Subscribe to Rudy Rucker Podcasts.
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July 11, 2009. Charlie Jane Anders introduces Rudy on her live show, Writers With Drinks, at the Make-Out Room bar in San Francisco. Rudy reads from Chapter 9: Live Sex, of HYLOZOIC. Subscribe to Rudy Rucker Podcasts.
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June 10, 2009. A half-hour reading with a half-hour of questions and answers. Reading from Chapter Two of HYLOZOIC at Books Inc. in Mountain View, CA. Subscribe to Rudy Rucker Podcasts.
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March 23, 2009. Rudy reads the first chapter of his novel in progress at an Electronic Freedom Foundation benefit at the 111 Minna Gallery in San Francisco. Subscribe to Rudy Rucker Podcasts.
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October 24, 2008, Rudy reads from his novel at an evening of steampunk readings hosted by SF in SF as part of LitQuake. Taped and posted by Rick Kleffel of Trashotron. Subscribe to Rudy Rucker Podcasts.
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October 10, 2008. My story about levels of infinity beyond alef-one. Appeared online in the webzine www.Tor.com, and in my COMPLETE STORIES. Subscribe to Rudy Rucker Podcasts.
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September 27, 2008. San Francisco. Rudy talks for about half an hour about aspects of sex in science fiction, then answers questions for another half hour. This event was at a conference organized by monochrom. Subscribe to Rudy Rucker Podcasts.
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November 13, 2007. Thirty-five minute reading from Chapter Three of POSTSINGULAR, followed by twenty minute Q&A at the Booksmith in San Francisco. Subscribe to Rudy Rucker Podcasts.
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May 16, 2007. A reading of my story “The Imitation Game,” about the last days of computer pioneer Alan Turing and his persecution by the British secret service. This time, Turing wins… The story appeared in INTERZONE magazine, and as Chapter One of my 2012 novel, TURING & BURROUGHS. Reading at monthly “SF in SF” […]
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March 7, 2007. Follow up to my Sunnyvale Library talk about writing. I introduce and read the short-short story “Panpsychism Proved” from my MAD PROFESSOR anthology. And then we have Q&A. Subscribe to Rudy Rucker Podcasts.
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March 7, 2007. A talk at the Sunnyvale Library about my life as a writer. Discussion of how I became a writer, my career, how I work, and some of my techniques. Subscribe to Rudy Rucker Podcasts.
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Jan 30, 2007. Reading from “Mathematicians in Love” at City Lights Books in San Francisco. Good sound quality. Reading from the “Hundred Percent” concert scene plus Q&A. A big thrill for me to read at City Lights, the veritable Vatican of Beat. Subscribe to Rudy Rucker Podcasts.
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January 18, 2007. The question and answer segment of my MATHEMATICIANS IN LOVE reading at Black Oak Books on Shattuck St., in Berkeley, CA, January 18, 2007. Subscribe to Rudy Rucker Podcasts.
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January 16, 2007. The question and answer segment of my MATHEMATICIANS IN LOVE reading at Booksmith on Haight St., SF, CA. Subscribe to Rudy Rucker Podcasts.
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Jan 11, 2007. Rick Kleffel interviews Rudy for his “Agony Column” webzine/podcast. Interview was done in the KUSP studios near the beach in Santa Cruz, January 11, 2007. We talked about cyberpunk, transrealism, Mathematicians in Love, and Mad Professor. See http://www.trashotron.com/agony/news/2007/01-15-07.htm#11507 Subscribe to Rudy Rucker Podcasts.
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Oct 23, 2006. “Boing Boing” editors Mark Frauenfelder and David Pescovitz interview author and mathematician Rudy Rucker about his two upcoming books:” Mad Professor” and “Mathematicians in Love.” Subscribe to Rudy Rucker Podcasts.
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May 18, 2006. Talk on “The Lifebox, the Seashell and the Soul” at LucasFilm in the Presidio in San Francisco. See slides . See photos on the May 19, 2006 entry of Rudy’s Blog. Subscribe to Rudy Rucker Podcasts.
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April 20, 2006. Talk on “The Lifebox, the Seashell and the Soul” at Fresno State. See slides . Subscribe to Rudy Rucker Podcasts.
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Audio files for podcasts #17-#29 are gone, due to bit rot and unreliable hosts… Onward! April 18, 2006. Reading “Chu and the Nants.” This story is in the June, 2006, edition of ISAAC ASIMOV’S SF magazine. It also serves as part of the first chapter of POSTSINGULAR. The reading was at The New College on […]
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Dec 9, 2005. My final lecture in my Philosophy and Computers class at SJSU in Fall, 2005. Based on Chapter 6 of my tome, “The Lifebox, the Seashell, and the Soul.” Includes discussion of my ambivalence about how to end the book, panpsychism, ontologies, unsolvability, computational equivalence, unpredictability, undecidability, and my six principles on how […]
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Dec 2, 2005. Lecture on Chapter 5 of “The Lifebox, the Seashell, and the Soul”. Flocking behaviors, how conversations can exemplify different computation classes, the hive mind of society, the nature of language, the ubiquity of social power laws. (If you want to follow the computer demos, download the “Boppers” and “CAPOW” programs from the […]
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Nov 17, 2005. Lecture on the second half of Chapter Four of “The Lifebox, the Seashell, and the Soul.” Arguing that a computer program can be conscious, and that this will happen within a hundred years. (48.27MB. min.) Subscribe to Rudy Rucker Podcasts.
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Nov 15, 2005. Final reading at KFJC. This short-short science fiction story, from my nonfiction book, “The Lifebox, the Seashell, and the Soul,” illustrates some questions about whether every thinkable process is physically realizable, and whether every computation is thinkable. (7.85MB. min.) Subscribe to Rudy Rucker Podcasts.
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Nov 8, 2005. At radio KFJC with Ann Arbor, reading the fifth thought experiment story from my nonfiction Lifebox book. Can a rainstorm be conscious? (6.61MB. 7 min.) Subscribe to Rudy Rucker Podcasts.
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Nov 4, 2005. The 6th lecture in my SJSU philosophy course. Covers sections 4.1 to 4.3 of “The Lifebox, the Seashell and the Soul.” (60.96MB. min.) Subscribe to Rudy Rucker Podcasts.
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Oct 25, 2005. At radio KFJC, www.kfjc.org or 89.7 FM, with Ann Arbor, 7:20 AM, Tuesday, reading the fourth thought experiment story from my nonfiction Lifebox book. Intro included. Subscribe to Rudy Rucker Podcasts.
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October 20, 2005. Rudy interviewed at KFJC while reading stories from The Lifebox, the Seashell, and the Soul. The question here is “Tell us about your early influences.” (6.28MB. min.) Subscribe to Rudy Rucker Podcasts.
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Oct 18, 2005. At radio KFJC with Ann Arbor, reading the third “thought experiment” short-short SF story included in The Lifebox, the Seashell, and the Soul, see https://www.rudyrucker.com/lifebox. Introduction is included.(1.12MB. min.) Subscribe to Rudy Rucker Podcasts.
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Oct 13, 2005. Review session summarizing Chapters 1 – 3 of The Lifebox, the Seashell, and the Soul. A good introduction to the material. Visuals of the questions I wrote on the blackboards are online. Subscribe to Rudy Rucker Podcasts.
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Oct 11, 2005. Rudy reads at radio KFJC. A story on multiple universes, introducing Chapter Two of Rudy Rucker, The Lifebox, the Seashell, and the Soul, see www.rudyrucker.com/lifebox. Intro included. (1.17MB. min.) Subscribe to Rudy Rucker Podcasts.
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October 4, 2005. Rudy at radio KFJC, reading the story “Lucky Number” which introduces chapter one in his nonfiction book The Lifebox, the Seashell, and the Soul. Intro included. (1.96MB. min.) Subscribe to Rudy Rucker Podcasts.
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October 4, 2005. The 4th lecture in my Philosophy and Computers course, covering the second half of Chapter 3 of The Lifebox, the Seashell, and the Soul. Topics: homeostasis, evolution, artificial life, robotics. I recorded this in stereo and equalized the sound with the Audacity program, and I think this one sounds better than my […]
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Sept 29, 2005. The 3rd recorded lecture in my Philosophy and Computers course, covering the first half of Chapter 3 of The Lifebox, the Seashell, and the Soul, see www.rudyrucker.com/lifebox. I talk about self-reproduction, intelligent design, morphogenesis, and ecology in terms of computations. By the way, my Philosophy class lectures are more or less independent […]
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Sept 22, 2005. The 2nd lecture from my Philosophy 115 class at SJSU. The lectures are based on my book The Lifebox, the Seashell and the Soul On the book’s page you can download the Cellab and CAPOW software used in the demos being discussed. I didn’t manage to record the three classroom lectures that […]
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Sept 26, 2005. Rudy’s talk on “Gnarly Computation” at the Institute for the Future, Palo Alto, September 26, 2005. The slides for this talk are online. And there’s a blog post on the talk. This talk serves as lecture #1 for my online Philosophy and Computers course. (46.93MB. min.) Subscribe to Rudy Rucker Podcasts.
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