Comments on: Hrull Pusher http://www.rudyrucker.com/blog/2007/05/14/411/ Sun, 23 Nov 2008 09:22:27 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.1 By: Steve H http://www.rudyrucker.com/blog/2007/05/14/411/#comment-9419 Steve H Tue, 15 May 2007 17:44:33 +0000 http://www.rudyrucker.com/blog/2007/05/14/411/#comment-9419 Rudy, terminology like shrigs, stonkers, cluspers, flurb, Peng woogies and Hrull is one of the things that sets you way apart from other science fiction writers. And I think Sheckley would be delighted to see the pushers reappear. I also think it would be dangerous for the Hrull to try to paralyze or otherwise oppress people who can teleport. Someone who can move a huge starship can also make YOU vanish if critically stressed. Hrullwelt is a great word. Maybe it should be Hrullmeer? I think Melkweg is a cool word but Via Galactica has a better ring. Probably why they didn't call that show BATTLESTAR MILKY . . . Rudy, terminology like shrigs, stonkers, cluspers, flurb, Peng woogies and Hrull is one of the things that sets you way apart from other science fiction writers. And I think Sheckley would be delighted to see the pushers reappear. I also think it would be dangerous for the Hrull to try to paralyze or otherwise oppress people who can teleport. Someone who can move a huge starship can also make YOU vanish if critically stressed.

Hrullwelt is a great word. Maybe it should be Hrullmeer? I think Melkweg is a cool word but Via Galactica has a better ring. Probably why they didn’t call that show BATTLESTAR MILKY . . .

]]> By: Ross http://www.rudyrucker.com/blog/2007/05/14/411/#comment-9405 Ross Mon, 14 May 2007 21:14:35 +0000 http://www.rudyrucker.com/blog/2007/05/14/411/#comment-9405 Yeah, I remember THE PUMA BLUES; that was a great comic. I still have some issues around here (in a box in the closet, actually). THE WAR AGAINST THE RULL is generaly regarded as one of van Vogt's classic works. A. E. van Vogt shared with William S. Burroughs a deep fascination with the non-Aristotelian "General Semantics" of Korzybski. I think van Vogt's General Semantics-based THE WORLD OF NULL-A is his best novel. It was Philip K. Dick's favorite SF novel. I'm also very fond of van Vogt's THE ANARCHISTIC COLOSSUS; it's certainly the most unique vision of an anarchist future ever written. Check it out. Yeah, I remember THE PUMA BLUES; that was a great comic. I still have some issues around here (in a box in the closet, actually).

THE WAR AGAINST THE RULL is generaly regarded as one of van Vogt’s classic works. A. E. van Vogt shared with William S. Burroughs a deep fascination with the non-Aristotelian “General Semantics” of Korzybski. I think van Vogt’s General Semantics-based THE WORLD OF NULL-A is his best novel. It was Philip K. Dick’s favorite SF novel. I’m also very fond of van Vogt’s THE ANARCHISTIC COLOSSUS; it’s certainly the most unique vision of an anarchist future ever written. Check it out.

]]> By: Nick http://www.rudyrucker.com/blog/2007/05/14/411/#comment-9404 Nick Mon, 14 May 2007 20:42:49 +0000 http://www.rudyrucker.com/blog/2007/05/14/411/#comment-9404 I don't know how easy it is to do so nowadays (or if I'm preaching to the converted), but you should check out The Puma Blues, a beautiful eco-sci-fi comic book from the 1980s, which featured mutated, airborne manta rays, its main symbol of post-nuclear environmental impact. You can see them airborne on the Wikipedia entry: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Puma_Blues The Hrulls sound great, by the way! I don’t know how easy it is to do so nowadays (or if I’m preaching to the converted), but you should check out The Puma Blues, a beautiful eco-sci-fi comic book from the 1980s, which featured mutated, airborne manta rays, its main symbol of post-nuclear environmental impact. You can see them airborne on the Wikipedia entry:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Puma_Blues

The Hrulls sound great, by the way!

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