Rudy Rucker
@rudytheelder.bsky.social
Rudy Rucker is a transreal cyberpunk writer with a checkered past. See Ware Tetralogy, Complete Stories & new evil president novel Juicy Ghosts. He posts on X, Bluesky & Mastodon. Paintings at https://www.rudyrucker.com/paintings
I did a bit of a book launch for Skinks as part of a panel on Phillip K Dick at the San Francisco Library. Thanks to SF in SF and to David Gill for making it happen. Buy link: Books2Read.com/sqink
November 25, 2025 at 4:29 PM
I did a bit of a book launch for Skinks as part of a panel on Phillip K Dick at the San Francisco Library. Thanks to SF in SF and to David Gill for making it happen. Buy link: Books2Read.com/sqink
Just watched Laurel and Hardy in Sons of the Desert 1933. Great scene of the wives seeing the boys at the the Chicago convention, where they weren't supposed to be
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Laurel & Hardy | "Sons of the Desert" | FULL MOVIE, FEATURE | Slapstick Comedy, Golden Hollywood
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November 22, 2025 at 5:30 AM
Just watched Laurel and Hardy in Sons of the Desert 1933. Great scene of the wives seeing the boys at the the Chicago convention, where they weren't supposed to be
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SQINKS. A vintage Rudy Rucker rollercoaster: fresh ideas, big laughs, and high emotions. A novel about our new AI, set in today's San Francisco. A transreal cyberpunk love story! For sale everywhere.
Books2Read.com/sqink
Books2Read.com/sqink
November 21, 2025 at 6:01 PM
SQINKS. A vintage Rudy Rucker rollercoaster: fresh ideas, big laughs, and high emotions. A novel about our new AI, set in today's San Francisco. A transreal cyberpunk love story! For sale everywhere.
Books2Read.com/sqink
Books2Read.com/sqink
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Available now at your favorite digital store!
Sqinks by Rudy Rucker
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November 21, 2025 at 12:58 AM
Relaxing after the weeks and months of SQINKS work. Watching 1930s movies. A James Whale trifecta. Frankenstein, Bride of Frankenstein, and The Invisible Man. Great films.
November 21, 2025 at 4:00 AM
Relaxing after the weeks and months of SQINKS work. Watching 1930s movies. A James Whale trifecta. Frankenstein, Bride of Frankenstein, and The Invisible Man. Great films.
And do watch my Sqnks trailer if you haven't seen it yet.
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Rudy Rucker's novel SQINKS
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November 20, 2025 at 9:43 PM
And do watch my Sqnks trailer if you haven't seen it yet.
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Relased today. SQINKS. Available everywhere. books2read.com/sqink
November 20, 2025 at 4:14 PM
Relased today. SQINKS. Available everywhere. books2read.com/sqink
I'm in round table discussion of Philip K. Dick at downtown San Francisco Library, Sunday 23rd, 3-5. Hosted by SF in SF. With scholar David Gill, author David Agranoff, and publisher Jacob Weisman. I'll bring copies of my new novel SQINKS, out this week! Event info link: www.sfinsf.org?p=3027
Join SF in SF for a Philip K. Dick Roundtable with PKD scholar David Gill!
SUNDAY NOVEMBER 23rd – 3PM The San Francisco Public Library, Main Branch FREE AND OPEN TO ALL A Philip K. Dick Roundtable DO ANDROIDS DREAM OF ELECTRIC SHEEP? Join SF in SF with experts Dav…
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November 19, 2025 at 6:30 PM
I'm in round table discussion of Philip K. Dick at downtown San Francisco Library, Sunday 23rd, 3-5. Hosted by SF in SF. With scholar David Gill, author David Agranoff, and publisher Jacob Weisman. I'll bring copies of my new novel SQINKS, out this week! Event info link: www.sfinsf.org?p=3027
I dreamed I used my Kickstarter money to take a trip to Alaska. I liked it there. Away from it all. I got in a taxi driven by Richard Kadrey, and we drove a couple of miles out on the ice. The light was wonderful. (Photo of Abbaotts Lagoon by Barb Ash, who plays Carol Cee in SQINKS.)
November 18, 2025 at 3:04 PM
I dreamed I used my Kickstarter money to take a trip to Alaska. I liked it there. Away from it all. I got in a taxi driven by Richard Kadrey, and we drove a couple of miles out on the ice. The light was wonderful. (Photo of Abbaotts Lagoon by Barb Ash, who plays Carol Cee in SQINKS.)
Barb with gnarly lowrider at the Boardwalk in Santa Cruz.
November 10, 2025 at 8:09 PM
Barb with gnarly lowrider at the Boardwalk in Santa Cruz.
Thinking back on my PhD in Set Theory, it's so funny. Set Theory is literally about nothing. See illo for INFINITY AND THE MND, drawn with Rapidograph pen in our Geneseo, NY, home, the very day I learned I was going to be fired from my first teaching job. But I knew infinity. So it didn't matter.
November 6, 2025 at 5:14 PM
Thinking back on my PhD in Set Theory, it's so funny. Set Theory is literally about nothing. See illo for INFINITY AND THE MND, drawn with Rapidograph pen in our Geneseo, NY, home, the very day I learned I was going to be fired from my first teaching job. But I knew infinity. So it didn't matter.
Great word: mojibake "the garbled or gibberish text from text being decoded by an unintended character encoding." Learned word while fixing mojibake in my 20-year-old Rudy's Blog with 1,200 posts, corrupted by recent a Word Press update. Rudy Jr saved the day. "You talkin' mojibake, dude."
November 5, 2025 at 1:59 AM
Great word: mojibake "the garbled or gibberish text from text being decoded by an unintended character encoding." Learned word while fixing mojibake in my 20-year-old Rudy's Blog with 1,200 posts, corrupted by recent a Word Press update. Rudy Jr saved the day. "You talkin' mojibake, dude."
Reading MOBY DICK today I came across a passage describing a jack-of-all-trades carpenger on the whaling ship...but I like to think of it as describing the way that an idealized creator might write or paint or photograph.
In the groove
In the groove
November 2, 2025 at 11:19 PM
Reading MOBY DICK today I came across a passage describing a jack-of-all-trades carpenger on the whaling ship...but I like to think of it as describing the way that an idealized creator might write or paint or photograph.
In the groove
In the groove
With Barb at the Los Gatos Halloween festival. Before that we watched the new Frankenstein in our big theater. A good day!
November 1, 2025 at 10:07 PM
With Barb at the Los Gatos Halloween festival. Before that we watched the new Frankenstein in our big theater. A good day!
New painting called "New Friends"! Took me a couple of weeks, off and on. Happy.
www.rudyrucker.com/paintings
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October 30, 2025 at 4:01 AM
New painting called "New Friends"! Took me a couple of weeks, off and on. Happy.
www.rudyrucker.com/paintings
www.rudyrucker.com/paintings
My Halloween photo. Rudy with a Tibetan "apron" made from human bone. "Remember my cooking!" Supposedly grants the ability to teleport. Photo by Barb at Asian Arts Museum in SF.
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October 29, 2025 at 6:18 PM
My Halloween photo. Rudy with a Tibetan "apron" made from human bone. "Remember my cooking!" Supposedly grants the ability to teleport. Photo by Barb at Asian Arts Museum in SF.
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Dawn view at Tomales Bay Resort...out in nowhere. Paradise. What a change to drive home through 2 1/2 hours of traffic, esp on 19th. But I have this photo to treasure. Half the time, my camera is out of focus. Because I'm old, that's why. But here it doesn't matter...ahhh.
October 28, 2025 at 9:44 PM
Dawn view at Tomales Bay Resort...out in nowhere. Paradise. What a change to drive home through 2 1/2 hours of traffic, esp on 19th. But I have this photo to treasure. Half the time, my camera is out of focus. Because I'm old, that's why. But here it doesn't matter...ahhh.
The Zen doctrine of No Mind.
October 28, 2025 at 8:41 PM
The Zen doctrine of No Mind.
Bronze Chinese rhinoceros from 1000 BC. I kind of handn't know that people were already such good artists three thousand years ago. www.youtube.com/watch?v=H__E...
October 28, 2025 at 5:38 AM
Bronze Chinese rhinoceros from 1000 BC. I kind of handn't know that people were already such good artists three thousand years ago. www.youtube.com/watch?v=H__E...
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I like the Specials A message to you Rudy
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The Specials - A Message To You Rudy (Official Music Video)
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October 25, 2025 at 8:52 AM
I like the Specials A message to you Rudy
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Apophenia, seeing far-fetched connections. Pareidolia, seeing faces in things. Pynchon mentions them in SHADOW TICKET. At a metalevel, I'm having apophenia with his work. Like he's specifically writing about recondite thing I've thought about. "Message to you, Rudy." psyche.co/ideas/when-t...
When the human tendency to detect patterns goes too far | Psyche Ideas
‘Apophenia’ is reflected in pleasant and troubling experiences alike – from seeing faces in clouds to conspiracy beliefs
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October 23, 2025 at 10:30 PM
Apophenia, seeing far-fetched connections. Pareidolia, seeing faces in things. Pynchon mentions them in SHADOW TICKET. At a metalevel, I'm having apophenia with his work. Like he's specifically writing about recondite thing I've thought about. "Message to you, Rudy." psyche.co/ideas/when-t...
Recping from the two montys of screen work. A new painting! Title? "Everything Has Eyes." "Portal." "Aquarium."
October 23, 2025 at 2:49 AM
Recping from the two montys of screen work. A new painting! Title? "Everything Has Eyes." "Portal." "Aquarium."
I can never believe how many separate steps are involved in a Kickstarter book release. It's all I've been doing for a month or two. Kind of like air travel. When I'm in a plane, I'm thinking, "I'll never do this again." But then ta-da, I'm somewhere I wanted to be. www.rudyrucker.com/sqinks/
October 22, 2025 at 10:37 PM
I can never believe how many separate steps are involved in a Kickstarter book release. It's all I've been doing for a month or two. Kind of like air travel. When I'm in a plane, I'm thinking, "I'll never do this again." But then ta-da, I'm somewhere I wanted to be. www.rudyrucker.com/sqinks/