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Rudy Rucker

@rudytheelder.bsky.social
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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 www.rudyrucker.com/paintings

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Rudy Rucker @rudytheelder.bsky.social · 21h
I am still working on my new painting. I am not sure of the title or what it is about yet. I think this is some sort of tunnel or space vehicle that the man and the woman are curious about entering, but that guy deeper in the tunnel is a little off-putting.
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Rudy Rucker @rudytheelder.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
What is the deal in hotels, with body wash (aka soap), shampoo, and condioner being in identical bottles with ID unreadably small? Especially for the near-sighted. To what purpose?
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Rudy Rucker @rudytheelder.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Insomnia last night, 3:00 a.m. Turned attention to Euler's equation, e^(iπ) + 1 = 0, considered by some the most perfect formula. Proved it to myself using Taylor series. Fell asleep. Mathematicians have fun too.
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Rudy Rucker @rudytheelder.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
$5 Stag $3 Drag. At dances in early 60s the admission price would be cheaper if you had a date
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Rudy Rucker @rudytheelder.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Incredible Mark Laidlaw video, "Attack the Sun". About being so insanely anti anti that you're against solar energy. In the end we will win. I think of Shelley's line, "Poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world" Or did he mean SF writers!? www.youtube.com/watch?v=5mj7...
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Marc Laidlaw - Attack the Sun! (Official Video)
YouTube video by Marc Laidlaw
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Rudy Rucker @rudytheelder.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
On Baker Beach.
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Rudy Rucker @rudytheelder.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Here's my most popular story on Medium: selected bits from the Sprawl Trilogy, with my comments. To produce this, I read the books on Kindle, picking passages, and then commenting on them. I think Bill said it helped him in producing the Neuromancer series. Study up! medium.com/@rudyrucker/...
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Notes on Gibson’s Sprawl Trilogy
As I’ve mentioned, my wife Sylvia died eleven months ago, and I have to find ways to fill the empty time at home. Somehow I still haven’t…
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Rudy Rucker @rudytheelder.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Our man Bruce S. Reposting an old story on Medium called "I Saw the Best Minds of My Generation Destroyed by Google." Great graphic, too. bruces.medium.com/i-saw-the-be...
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“I Saw the Best Minds of My Generation Destroyed by Google” by Bruce Sterling (2006)
It’s a science fiction story set during the present year of 2026, which was originally published in “New Scientist,” twenty years ago.
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Rudy Rucker @rudytheelder.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
New edition of BETTER WORLDS. "Three hundred and one bright, fantastical paintings by cyberpunk master Rudy Rucke. Includes detailed comments on the background and creation of the individual works." www.amazon.com/dp/098582722X
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Rudy Rucker @rudytheelder.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
And my Armadillocon 1 post is on Medium as well. medium.com/@rudyrucker/...
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Writing Cyberpunk.
White Light, Saucer Wisdom, Sqinks, and Juicy Ghosts
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Rudy Rucker @rudytheelder.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
I just shared my Armadilocn 2 post on Medium. medium.com/@rudyrucker/...
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Transrealism, Telepathy, Filmifying
Here’s my secone post about Armadillocon in Austin. See my much longer Writing Cyberpunk post about Armadillocon 1 for more matrial, and…
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Rudy Rucker @rudytheelder.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Simple bare link to play my Armadillocon panel with Bruce www.rudyrucker.com/blog/mp3/ruc...
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Rudy Rucker @rudytheelder.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Massive new blog post. Armadillocon: White Light, Saucer Wisdom, Sqinks, Juicy Ghosts. www.rudyrucker.com/blog/2026/09...
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Rudy Rucker @rudytheelder.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Now this is what I call a good photo. At the art museum in Austin. Barb called them high heels. Love that cloud. Leica with DNG setting. Yah, mon.
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Rudy Rucker @rudytheelder.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Back in the day. I was writing *Wetware*, around 1985. My office was an abandoned house in Lynchburg, Virginia. $50 a month. I was otherwise unemployed. Founding cyberpunk in a town run by an insane religious zealot. Good times.
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Rudy Rucker @rudytheelder.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
"I had but to drink the cup, to doff the body of the noted professor, and to assume that of Edward Hyde. I smiled; it seemed to me to be humourous; and I made my preparations with the most studious care. " --- R. L. Stevenson, JEKYLL & HYDE. === How NOT to prep for a panel...as I'd do in 80s.
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Rudy Rucker @rudytheelder.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Men and war. Doesn't exactly take Dr. Sigmund Freud to figure out this monument at Texas state Capitol. Dick and balls!
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Rudy Rucker @rudytheelder.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Interesting article, and it has one sort of quirky answer to why the AI's would kill us all, that is to say, for a reason that makes no sense at all to us. Robert Sheckley challenge: What might such a reason be? To increase the number of gnats. www.newyorker.com/news/q-and-a...
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How, Exactly, Could A.I. Kill Us?
Employees of A.I. companies are increasingly sounding the alarm. What should we make of their warnings?
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Rudy Rucker @rudytheelder.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Might as well start painting again.
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Rudy Rucker @rudytheelder.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
New Rudy podcasts. #119 “Writing Cyberpunk. Rudy vs. Bruce.” A pro wrestling vibe. Edited it down a bit. #118 "Spec-fic. Telepathy." A short one after my reading. Fun trip. Many thanks to Armadillocon for inviting me. Good to see old Bruce. Photo by Barb Ash. www.rudyrucker.com/blog/podcast...
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Rudy Rucker @rudytheelder.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
My gate.
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Rudy Rucker @rudytheelder.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
White light girlfriend! I'm next. Merge, baby, merge.
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Rudy Rucker @rudytheelder.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
The Lone Star State. I kicked ass at my Atmadillocon panels. Founded Cyberpunk with SOFTWARE. Hilbert space vision of quantum telepathy. Radical revolution in new JUICY GHOSTS.
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Rudy Rucker @rudytheelder.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
With Bruce Sterling at the Armadillocon in Austin, Texas. Piling on the BS.
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Rudy Rucker @rudytheelder.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Worries. 1. Trump's military base at the White House makes it hard to evict him when he won't leave. 2. He fires independent leaders from the Army so he has goons to enforce a police state. A method behind his madness. Don't forget to vote.
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Rudy Rucker @rudytheelder.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Tattoo parlor in Fort Bragg, CA, run by a spritely lady named Chinchilla.
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Rudy Rucker @rudytheelder.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
This what I've been telling everyone since my WARE novels in the 80s. We won't huge, electricity-gobbling factories full of chips. Bio is the way to go. It's nature's wat. corticallabs.com
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Cortical Labs
We've combined lab-grown neurons with silicon chips and made it available to anyone, for first time ever.
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Rudy Rucker @rudytheelder.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
My prints on sale in the Haight. Borderlands Books. With Jude and Alan. Will be up for a long time. Check it out.
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Rudy Rucker @rudytheelder.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Up in Fort Bragg, California, visitng Isabel with Barb. I love the giant kelp whips.
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Rudy Rucker @rudytheelder.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Whipping the beach in Mendocino
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Rudy Rucker @rudytheelder.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Great new video and song by Marc Laidlaw. Check it out. youtu.be/gJV0rMQ9m28?...
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Marc Laidlaw - Coeur Cerise (Official Video)
YouTube video by Marc Laidlaw
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Rudy Rucker @rudytheelder.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Under the spell of Bruce Sterling once more, I'm actually reading a lesser-known novel by Robert Louis Stevenson, "Kidnapped". Largely written in Scottish dialect, like Uncle Scrooge used to talk. Such purple prose, such schoolboy drama, sort of like a video game, but very rich and great fun.
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#BruceSterling @bruces.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
*A guy who totally gets it about the beatnik roots of cyberpunk: Prof Rudy Rucker. *Rudy's a teacher, but nobody ever teaches his cyberpunk novels in high schools. "Today, class, 'Space-Time Donuts' and next week 'The Sex Sphere'" *The only cyberpunk science-fiction writer who is a scientist
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Rudy Rucker @rudytheelder.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Give us this day our daily hackathon. Designing the next edition of my art book, Better Worlds.
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Rudy Rucker @rudytheelder.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Here in Geek Alley, I spent the afternoon linking my new phone camera with my desktop. Motto for learning a new computer skill: "You have to make every possible mistake." Over time, you learn to learn to make them faster.
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Rudy Rucker @rudytheelder.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
Interesting cut I've never heard. Bo Didddly describing the start of his career. music.youtube.com/watch?v=xQPq...
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Bo Diddley - The Rhythm That Shook The World. Over his signature beat Bo recounts his 1st hit record
YouTube video by MrDomin099 Stone
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Rudy Rucker @rudytheelder.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
Graffiti in the woods, it says Abel. We were walking up a stream there today, me, my son, and my grandson. A good day.
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Rudy Rucker @rudytheelder.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
One of my bigger events, a TEDx talk in Brussels, 2011. I'm laying down my ideas about the lifebox and software immortality. www.youtube.com/watch?v=ifdd...
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TEDxBrussels - Rudy Rucker - Beyond Machines: The Year 3000
YouTube video by TEDx Talks
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Rudy Rucker @rudytheelder.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
This phone is kind of incredible. A nice blank day awaits. I guess I'll shower and then see about getting the old paint cans out of the basement.
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Fúrioso 🇵🇹 @pthor.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
In the American Galactic Cluster.
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Rudy Rucker @rudytheelder.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Abd this is planet America. In the America Way Galaxy.
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Rudy Rucker @rudytheelder.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
The new me.
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Rudy Rucker @rudytheelder.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
My pixel 11 camera phone has a VERY good zoom.
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Rudy Rucker @rudytheelder.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
So I got a new phone camera. My foot!
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Rudy Rucker @rudytheelder.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
San Jose Hall of records, ultra modern, kind of Kafka-esque and creepy. Birth certificates, wedding chapel, death certificates. The Great Wheel.
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Rudy Rucker @rudytheelder.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
So, another painting. "Maze." Wild explanation in the Catalog. www.rudyrucker.com/paintings/ru...
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Rudy Rucker @rudytheelder.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
Time to sell some paintings. Big cuts. Check it out. www.rudyrucker.com/paintings/pa...
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Rudy Rucker @rudytheelder.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
"The same yet changed I rise again." In Latin of course. Bernoulli's epitaph, about the logarithmic spiral. Maybe I'll write again. Wondrous beach at Davenpoort. Joy. With Barb.
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Rudy Rucker @rudytheelder.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
I don't think it's super well-known but I do have a podcast. Topoics: Cyberpunk, AI, science fiction, mind, literature, beatnik, Phil Dick, infinity, fourth dimension, math, sex, robots, drugs, revolution, space, aliens, telepathy, immortality. www.rudyrucker.com/podcasts/
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Rudy Rucker @rudytheelder.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
Good news, the turbulence on the sun surface forms scroll patterns like my beloved Belusov Zhabotinsky cellular automata rules. Also seen in ordinary water turbulence. www.newscientist.com/article/2583...
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Most-detailed-ever image of sun reveals roiling waves for first time | New Scientist
Remarkable images of the sun show vortices on its surface that have never been seen before because they are so small
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