Rudy’s New Book!
I’m at the tail end of a four-week campaign to raise money for publishing my latest novel, Sqinks.
Published via my very own indie press, which is Transreal Books.
You can see what it’s all about — and perhaps pitch in — at the book’s Kickstarter page…but it’s only live for a few more days.
Towards the end of October, I’ll be publishing Sqinks in hardback, paperback, and ebook on all the usual book sites.
For now, here’s a kinda funny promo / trailer video for the book that I made with the help of my friend Barb Ash.
It was fun doing the video, Barb got into it.
Sqinks is a visionary tale of aliens in today’s San Francisco. The sqinks. In some ways they’re like our new AIs. But in other ways, they’re a thing nobody’s ever seen. Nobody except Rudy. And, um, these aliens seem to have an interest in replacing human brains. It’s a surreal rollercoaster, rich with ideas, scares, and laughs.
The narrator is, in a way, me. The character is a seasoned SF author who’s writing a novel about the odd world he’s in. A touch of what I calls transrealism. Yes, it’s science-fiction, but, yes, it’s about our real world. And the lead woman character Carol Cee is pretty much my woman friend Barb Ash.
Me being who I am, the novel is cyberpunk—2020s style, faster and funnier than before. New mind tech, and new struggles for human freedom.
And it’s a love story. A transreal cyberpunk love story. It’ll make you laugh, and it’ll make you feel good.
You can read a sample at my Sqinks book page.