Rudy’s Blog

As I mentioned in my previous post, I’m going to be over at www.boingboing.net as a guestblogger for the last two weeks of May, 2009. You can find the BoingBoing guestblog posts listed here.

Meanwhile, the following is a list of the upcoming readings to promote my latest novel, Hylozoic.

(Picture from 1982, accepting the first Philip K. Dick Award.)

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Saturday, June 06, 2009. 3 P.M.
Borderlands Books
866 Valencia St.
San Francisco, CA 94110
415.824.8203
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Sunday, June 07, 2009. 7:30 PM
Moe’s Books
2476 Telegraph Avenue
Berkeley CA 94704
510.849.2087
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Wednesday, June 10, 2009. 7:30 P.M.
Books, Inc. in Mountain View
301 Castro Street
Mountain View, CA 94041
650.428.1234
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Sunday, July 12, 2009. 2:00 PM
Dark Carnival Bookstore
3086 Claremont Ave.
Berkeley CA, 94705
510.654.7323
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On Monday, March 23rd, 2009, the Electronic Freedom Foundation is holding a fundraising event featuring Cory Doctorow, Rudy Rucker, Annalee Newitz and Charlie Jane Anders reading from their latest works.

The event is at 7pm at the 111 Minna Gallery in San Francisco. Admission is $25 (because it’s a fundraiser), but no one will be turned away for lack of funds.

Saturday, September 27, 2008, 1 p.m.
CELLspace / 2050 Bryant Street, San Francisco.
Rudy gives a keynote talk on “What is Sex?” for Arse Elektronika .

What is Sex?

Each of us is here as a link in a chain of a zillion reproductive sex acts. The pleasures of partnership and the orgasm help make us obsessed with having sex, even if we don’t know or care about reproduction. We might think of sex as any path that leads to orgasm. Note here the difference between sex with a person and, say, sex via pornography. In sex with a person, you’re talking about emotion, the positions of your limbs, touch across large skin areas, tastes, scents and pheromones. In the “artificial sex” of pornography, you’re talking about visual images, perhaps enhanced by recorded sounds. Amazing how little we’re willing to settle for! How might artificial sex improve? I’ll sketch some science-fictional scenarios.

Thursday, October 9, 7:30 p.m.
The Variety Preview Room, 582 Market St. @ Montgomery, 1st floor of The Hobart Bldg.
Rudy reads and joins a panel as part of a “Steampunk” evening for the Litquake festival in San Francisco.

Friday, September 26, 2008, 9 p.m., doors 8 p.m.
Center for Sex & Culture, 1519 Mission Street near 11th, San Francisco, September 26 / 9pm, doors open at 8 pm
Rudy participates in the Arse Elektronika reading of sexual science fiction, organized by Carol Queen.

Wednesday, September 10, 2008 at 7:30 p.m.
Moe’s Books at 2476 Telegraph Avenue, in Berkeley CA.
Rudy introduces Neal Stephenson for his reading from his new novel Anathem .

A group show at Live Worms Gallery on 1345 Grant Street (between Green and Vallejo. Map.) in the North Beach area of San Francisco, based on the Caunes-Minervois Painting session with Glen Moriwaki in June 2007.

Paintings by our teacher, Glen Moriwaki, and the 5 artists who painted in Caunes: Kevin Brown, Paul, Barbara Hefennan, Rudy Rucker, Sylvia Rucker.

As well as “The Muse,” Rudy will be showing his Hylozoic triptych and “Minervois Awning.”

Show Dates: April 8-12th.

Opening party Friday, April 11th from 5-7 p.m.

Rudy will be watching the gallery Saturday afternoon from 1 to 5 p.m., so stop by if you want to say hi to him; bring a book if you want it signed.

A good place to park is the public Vallejo Street garage on Vallejo Street across Columbus Ave between Stockton St. and Powell St.