Comments on: Postsingular Free Online Now! http://www.rudyrucker.com/blog/2007/11/01/postsingular-free-online-now/ Mon, 08 Sep 2008 10:08:50 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.1 By: da http://www.rudyrucker.com/blog/2007/11/01/postsingular-free-online-now/#comment-15897 da Mon, 21 Jul 2008 15:35:51 +0000 http://www.rudyrucker.com/blog/2007/11/01/postsingular-free-online-now/#comment-15897 Thanks, Will, I'm glad you liked POSTSINGULAR. As for my "no donations" policy on POSTSINGULAR, since my publisher Tor Books is selling hard copies of the book, they prefer that I not be soliciting money myself for the free preview that they're allowing me to give away. But I can imagine trying the donations-only approach sometime, perhaps with a reprint version of one of my older books. By the way, from what I hear from Tor, we will probably not be posting HYLOZOIC (the sequel to POSTSINGULAR) for free download; I think they're interested in comparing how the sales do with and without the download available. Thanks, Will, I’m glad you liked POSTSINGULAR.

As for my “no donations” policy on POSTSINGULAR, since my publisher Tor Books is selling hard copies of the book, they prefer that I not be soliciting money myself for the free preview that they’re allowing me to give away.

But I can imagine trying the donations-only approach sometime, perhaps with a reprint version of one of my older books.

By the way, from what I hear from Tor, we will probably not be posting HYLOZOIC (the sequel to POSTSINGULAR) for free download; I think they’re interested in comparing how the sales do with and without the download available.

]]> By: Will in Taos, NM http://www.rudyrucker.com/blog/2007/11/01/postsingular-free-online-now/#comment-15888 Will in Taos, NM Sun, 20 Jul 2008 04:53:45 +0000 http://www.rudyrucker.com/blog/2007/11/01/postsingular-free-online-now/#comment-15888 I think Postsingular is absolutely brilliant, as well as just good fun... I haven't been quite so thrilled since first discovering Wm Gibson ages and ages ago. I am very curious about your discouraging of donations. The hardcover book with shipping is a good deal more than I am willing to spend as a token of support, but it would be nice to give concrete appreciation of your efforts... are you independently wealthy or what? I think looking at putting a Paypal link on your blog as "just tips" is belittling a generosity-based economic model that might actually surprise you. It is a pet theory of mine that a donation based economic model might end up actually being more functional than the outmoded "no money, no entertainment" model that Hollywood and the "music industry" is still so desperately (and ineffectually) clinging to. I stand down from my soapbox now. Thanks again for your brilliance and generosity. I think Postsingular is absolutely brilliant, as well as just good fun… I haven’t been quite so thrilled since first discovering Wm Gibson ages and ages ago.
I am very curious about your discouraging of donations. The hardcover book with shipping is a good deal more than I am willing to spend as a token of support, but it would be nice to give concrete appreciation of your efforts… are you independently wealthy or what? I think looking at putting a Paypal link on your blog as “just tips” is belittling a generosity-based economic model that might actually surprise you. It is a pet theory of mine that a donation based economic model might end up actually being more functional than the outmoded “no money, no entertainment” model that Hollywood and the “music industry” is still so desperately (and ineffectually) clinging to.
I stand down from my soapbox now.

Thanks again for your brilliance and generosity.

]]> By: Amit http://www.rudyrucker.com/blog/2007/11/01/postsingular-free-online-now/#comment-15799 Amit Thu, 26 Jun 2008 19:34:14 +0000 http://www.rudyrucker.com/blog/2007/11/01/postsingular-free-online-now/#comment-15799 greetings from ('they still use oil around here') bangalore. It had been a long time since writing felt as alive and teeming as a DMT experience or a night in a buzzing forest. Postsingular is the perfect (whether hyper-imaginal or scarily future-real) book to read to soothe some of the ache one develops as a young man after experiencing the rush of jazz, psychedelics, sex, Qawwali music, near-telepathic online conversations and synchronistic meetings and then learns to curb as he grows older. I wish I could have understood the physics and mathematics of the Planck frontier better but nevertheless, I felt superconnected to the concepts and the experiences and the visions. I have been spreading the word around about your book - I hope when I travel to the Lobrane San Francisco again I can offer you some raw image and video data and any ultra-dimensional storylines from India. greetings from (’they still use oil around here’) bangalore. It had been a long time since writing felt as alive and teeming as a DMT experience or a night in a buzzing forest. Postsingular is the perfect (whether hyper-imaginal or scarily future-real) book to read to soothe some of the ache one develops as a young man after experiencing the rush of jazz, psychedelics, sex, Qawwali music, near-telepathic online conversations and synchronistic meetings and then learns to curb as he grows older. I wish I could have understood the physics and mathematics of the Planck frontier better but nevertheless, I felt superconnected to the concepts and the experiences and the visions.

I have been spreading the word around about your book - I hope when I travel to the Lobrane San Francisco again I can offer you some raw image and video data and any ultra-dimensional storylines from India.

]]> By: Erin Weinstock http://www.rudyrucker.com/blog/2007/11/01/postsingular-free-online-now/#comment-13052 Erin Weinstock Mon, 21 Jan 2008 06:55:57 +0000 http://www.rudyrucker.com/blog/2007/11/01/postsingular-free-online-now/#comment-13052 It was a good book, you've done another great job of writing what I wonder will one day be a classic to the science fiction community. It was a book for geeks of the fantasy & techno class, liberals with a curiosity of "what if" over the ultimate interaction between man and the net. Darkness and Wonder. Unlike FREK AND THE ELIXIR, I'd never read this one to a kid, too adult for little ones. But like the last one I read from you I got hooked fast. In fact that's how I made it through it so fast. The urge to know what will happen next is so strong you keep turning pages without caring to count them. With POSTSINGULAR I felt it would make a great DC Vertigo comic. FREK AND THE ELIXIR I felt would make a great traditionally animated movie. Both are things I think would be very cool to one day see happen. Also I thought it was cute reading Wow get visually reincarnated in Azaroth's animal disguise. I can think of a lot more I'd like to say with the vibrant mental images this book painted but I'm not sure how to sum them up right :). It was a good book, you’ve done another great job of writing what I wonder will one day be a classic to the science fiction community. It was a book for geeks of the fantasy & techno class, liberals with a curiosity of “what if” over the ultimate interaction between man and the net. Darkness and Wonder. Unlike FREK AND THE ELIXIR, I’d never read this one to a kid, too adult for little ones. But like the last one I read from you I got hooked fast. In fact that’s how I made it through it so fast. The urge to know what will happen next is so strong you keep turning pages without caring to count them. With POSTSINGULAR I felt it would make a great DC Vertigo comic. FREK AND THE ELIXIR I felt would make a great traditionally animated movie. Both are things I think would be very cool to one day see happen. Also I thought it was cute reading Wow get visually reincarnated in Azaroth’s animal disguise. I can think of a lot more I’d like to say with the vibrant mental images this book painted but I’m not sure how to sum them up right :).

]]> By: Tony Lee http://www.rudyrucker.com/blog/2007/11/01/postsingular-free-online-now/#comment-12843 Tony Lee Tue, 01 Jan 2008 11:23:33 +0000 http://www.rudyrucker.com/blog/2007/11/01/postsingular-free-online-now/#comment-12843 The ZONE website's review of POSTSINGULAR is online at: http://www.zone-sf.com/wordworks/postsing.html The ZONE website’s review of POSTSINGULAR is online at:
http://www.zone-sf.com/wordworks/postsing.html

]]> By: Arthur Gillard http://www.rudyrucker.com/blog/2007/11/01/postsingular-free-online-now/#comment-12789 Arthur Gillard Mon, 24 Dec 2007 22:18:25 +0000 http://www.rudyrucker.com/blog/2007/11/01/postsingular-free-online-now/#comment-12789 LOL - OK, your software is smart enough to make URL's clickable - that answers that question...my review, in some of it's incarnations at least, has some of the words made into links, e.g. Postingular, Rudy Rucker, Creative Commons, Cory Doctorow... cheers Arthur LOL - OK, your software is smart enough to make URL’s clickable - that answers that question…my review, in some of it’s incarnations at least, has some of the words made into links, e.g. Postingular, Rudy Rucker, Creative Commons, Cory Doctorow…

cheers
Arthur

]]> By: Arthur Gillard http://www.rudyrucker.com/blog/2007/11/01/postsingular-free-online-now/#comment-12788 Arthur Gillard Mon, 24 Dec 2007 22:15:45 +0000 http://www.rudyrucker.com/blog/2007/11/01/postsingular-free-online-now/#comment-12788 Rudy, it was great to meet you in Live Worms a while back! I posted a picture here: http://aqalicious.zaadz.com/photos/view/283654 - the description of which links to your Postsingular webpage. I've been a fan for a long time. I've been slowly savoring your latest novel, and just posted a review in various places on the net, including Amazon and my blog; I've also praised the book in various discussion threads and conversations both on- and offline. Here's a copy of my review: ~~~ Postsingular, Rudy Rucker's latest novel, is an exhilarating ride through a technological singularity that grants earthlings godlike powers. Though the human condition as we now know it has been transcended through technological means - with telepathy, ominividence ("all-seeing"), and vastly enhanced intelligence among the choices on the postsingular menu - all the flaws and foibles of human nature are included in the postsingular mix, with strange and sometimes hilarious results. The culture and politics of our dark, strange era as reflected in the funhouse mirror of Rucker's astonishing and playful imagination is both funny and strangely reassuring, with regular people struggling to save the world from sociopathic corporate leaders and corrupt religious politicians. For the first time in his career, Rucker is experimenting with making his novel available online through a Creative Commons license, as has been done with great success by other science fiction writers such as Cory Doctorow and Peter Watts. As a big fan of both Rudy Rucker and Creative Commons, I hope that this experiment will be highly successful and that many people will support his work by buying copies. The author has also made available over 300 pages worth of working notes for the novel, for those who want more background information. I highly recommend this novel and I'm looking forward to the next two books in the series. For more information on Rudy Rucker and his work see http://www.rudyrucker.com/ A plot summary of Postsingular is available at http://www.rudyrucker.com/postsingular/#summary ~~~ A version of the above with clickable hyperlinks is available at: http://pods.zaadz.com/ii/discussions/view/202550#221624 I couldn't figure out how to make hyperlinks work in this comment field. Thanks for writing another great novel! spiral out, Arthur Rudy, it was great to meet you in Live Worms a while back! I posted a picture here: http://aqalicious.zaadz.com/photos/view/283654 - the description of which links to your Postsingular webpage.

I’ve been a fan for a long time. I’ve been slowly savoring your latest novel, and just posted a review in various places on the net, including Amazon and my blog; I’ve also praised the book in various discussion threads and conversations both on- and offline. Here’s a copy of my review:

~~~

Postsingular, Rudy Rucker’s latest novel, is an exhilarating ride through a technological singularity that grants earthlings godlike powers. Though the human condition as we now know it has been transcended through technological means - with telepathy, ominividence (”all-seeing”), and vastly enhanced intelligence among the choices on the postsingular menu - all the flaws and foibles of human nature are included in the postsingular mix, with strange and sometimes hilarious results. The culture and politics of our dark, strange era as reflected in the funhouse mirror of Rucker’s astonishing and playful imagination is both funny and strangely reassuring, with regular people struggling to save the world from sociopathic corporate leaders and corrupt religious politicians.

For the first time in his career, Rucker is experimenting with making his novel available online through a Creative Commons license, as has been done with great success by other science fiction writers such as Cory Doctorow and Peter Watts. As a big fan of both Rudy Rucker and Creative Commons, I hope that this experiment will be highly successful and that many people will support his work by buying copies. The author has also made available over 300 pages worth of working notes for the novel, for those who want more background information.

I highly recommend this novel and I’m looking forward to the next two books in the series. For more information on Rudy Rucker and his work see http://www.rudyrucker.com/

A plot summary of Postsingular is available at http://www.rudyrucker.com/postsingular/#summary

~~~

A version of the above with clickable hyperlinks is available at:

http://pods.zaadz.com/ii/discussions/view/202550#221624

I couldn’t figure out how to make hyperlinks work in this comment field.

Thanks for writing another great novel!

spiral out,
Arthur

]]> By: Clear http://www.rudyrucker.com/blog/2007/11/01/postsingular-free-online-now/#comment-12514 Clear Fri, 30 Nov 2007 16:02:53 +0000 http://www.rudyrucker.com/blog/2007/11/01/postsingular-free-online-now/#comment-12514 Hi, I just finished PS on pdf. Good! What I like most about Rudy's stories is their playfulness. Yet in the same breath there's a certain bloodlessness, like a Di$ney movie. I think that may because of the scope and speed doesn't allow for much gritty detail. That said I ate it all into my brain meats in 4 days snuck in while rendering at work (shhh). I admit that reading at that speed it turns into a delicious sponge cake of narrative, with lemon-lime cream cheese frosting. Rudy Rucker's writing is a good contrast against Chuck Palahniuk's. Chuck likes to lapse rhapsodic about a few things to a dirty and textural degree, set it on fire and inhale the fumes. While Rudy like to speed over, around, through, vinner, and voutter the thing describing a rainbow Calabi-Yau knot in a child's marble. But that's just my opinion. I would like more smell descriptions in Mr. Rucker work. Long Live the Gnarl! Horg! Hi, I just finished PS on pdf. Good!
What I like most about Rudy’s stories is their playfulness. Yet in the same breath there’s a certain bloodlessness, like a Di$ney movie. I think that may because of the scope and speed doesn’t allow for much gritty detail. That said I ate it all into my brain meats in 4 days snuck in while rendering at work (shhh).
I admit that reading at that speed it turns into a delicious sponge cake of narrative, with lemon-lime cream cheese frosting.
Rudy Rucker’s writing is a good contrast against Chuck Palahniuk’s. Chuck likes to lapse rhapsodic about a few things to a dirty and textural degree, set it on fire and inhale the fumes. While Rudy like to speed over, around, through, vinner, and voutter the thing describing a rainbow Calabi-Yau knot in a child’s marble. But that’s just my opinion.
I would like more smell descriptions in Mr. Rucker work.
Long Live the Gnarl!
Horg!

]]> By: Andy Bailey http://www.rudyrucker.com/blog/2007/11/01/postsingular-free-online-now/#comment-12512 Andy Bailey Fri, 30 Nov 2007 12:08:39 +0000 http://www.rudyrucker.com/blog/2007/11/01/postsingular-free-online-now/#comment-12512 I just read this on my PDA, to tell the truth - I would have been quite happy having the first 3 or 4 chapters as it's own book. a pre-postsingular monster tome to prepare me for the wonderness of chapters 5 and on. I have literally not been able to do anything else other than read this book since I got it. I need Hylozoic now please. no waiting. gimme. (or I'll send some subbies) I just read this on my PDA, to tell the truth - I would have been quite happy having the first 3 or 4 chapters as it’s own book. a pre-postsingular monster tome to prepare me for the wonderness of chapters 5 and on.
I have literally not been able to do anything else other than read this book since I got it.

I need Hylozoic now please.

no waiting.

gimme.

(or I’ll send some subbies)

]]> By: aiken http://www.rudyrucker.com/blog/2007/11/01/postsingular-free-online-now/#comment-12335 aiken Mon, 19 Nov 2007 20:56:36 +0000 http://www.rudyrucker.com/blog/2007/11/01/postsingular-free-online-now/#comment-12335 Just DLed it to my PDA and drooling in anticipation for great reading. I sincerely thank you for making your work availiable online, cause it it's the only way to read some hot new foreing books here, in Russia (delivery from US will cost me the same as book itself or more). Just DLed it to my PDA and drooling in anticipation for great reading.
I sincerely thank you for making your work availiable online, cause it it’s the only way to read some hot new foreing books here, in Russia (delivery from US will cost me the same as book itself or more).

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