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The Big Aha

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Rudy Rucker 

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Jim and the Flims

by 

Rudy Rucker 

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The Sex Sphere

by

Rudy Rucker

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Loco

by

Rudy Rucker and Bruce Sterling

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Hylozoic

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Rudy Rucker 

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Postsingular

by

Rudy Rucker

All the Visions

Here's a book by my favorite author, Rudy Rucker. It is one I'd never heard of. I saw a copy of it for sale on Amazon for something like $3, so I ordered it. Turns out, it's actually 2 books in one

It is back to back with this one: Space Baltic by Anselm Hollo. Never heard of him but I'll read it anyway. This is a first, should I count it as one book or two? Since they are both very short and share a cover and one spine I will count it as one book. It is also a first in that since I could find no usable images of the covers on the internet, I simply shot pictures of the book, under lamp light with my cell phone and sent them to my e-mail. Problem solved.

Rudy being Rudy

One of the many reasons I like Rudy Rucker is the videos he does like these. He's just goofing around with a camera, enjoying nature. Just a regular guy, like me.

Here's Rudy

I'm so happy to be reading Rudy Rucker again. He's not just my favorite author, he's also a teacher, a blogger and an artist. I thought this was a good video to post here as I am currently reading a book he wrote about an artist named Pete.

About Peter Breugel

As Above, So Below

by Rudy Rucker

unintentional re-read

While reading the book of short stories by J.G. Ballard, I came across a story that I quickly recognized as having read once before. A story called Billenium in which the Earth's population has become a worldwide over-crowding problem. People are forced to live in small cubicles with a roommate, like prisoners in cells.
I could not remember where I had read this story before, so I looked at some of the other J.G. Ballard books I had set aside. Vermillion Sands and The Terminal Beach. These each had a bookmark tucked into the last page, indicating a fully read book. I had forgotten that these too, were short story collections which, it turns out I have probably already read. Billenium was among the stories in one of the two books, along with a couple in the new book that I haven't gotten to yet. Most of the current read is new to me though, and it led to my discovery of two books that I've read, that I was unaware of. I'm only about halfway through.
This has happened before, I special ordered The 57th Franz Kafka by Rudy Rucker from Borders one time. It arrived and I began to read it, when I realized that the first story was one thaat I recognized from another short story collection that I'd read a few years earlier, Gnarl! I compared the two books side by side and only read the four chapters in 57FK that I found didn't appear in the table of contents of Gnarl!.
So I re-read Billenium. It was short and memorable. They discover an unused room but end up sharing it, subdividing it, subletting the space and eventually end up packed in like sardines again just like before. I don't usually re-read books, unintentionally or otherwise. But I have before and might do so again.

Spacetime Donuts

A video review of Spacetime Donuts by Rudy Rucker from AngrySciFiNerd. That was book #9 of '08 for me. Rudy Rucker is my favorite author, BTW. As the reviewer notes, it is a hard to find book. I found my copy at Gardener's Used Books.