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Aug 29, 2012. Rucker’s talk at the Gloucester Writers Center in Gloucester, Mass. With an introduction by Gregory Gibson. Topics are transreal SF and beatnik writing, particularly that of William Burroughs. A reading from TURING & BURROUGHS, followed by Q&A touching on Burroughs’s cut-up technique and on contrasts between fantasy vs. SF.
(Revised this post on Aug 30, 2012) I gave a talk and reading in Gloucester, Mass, on Wednesday night, 7:30 pm, Aug 29, 2012, at the Gloucester Writers Center.
I made a podcast of the event. You can click on the icon below to access the podcast via Rudy Rucker Podcasts.
My topics were transreal SF and beatnik writing, particularly that of William Burroughs. I gave a short reading from TURING & BURROUGHS, folowed by Q&A touching on Burroughs’s cut-up technique and contrasts between fantasy vs. SF. The introduction is by my old friend and fellow writer Gregory Gibson.
You can see the web announcement of the talk here. And see the poster below (note that my novel’s title has changed from THE TURING CHRONICLES to TURING & BURROUGHS.)
I’m here thanks to my old writer friend Gregory Gibson, and thanks to Henry Ferrini. As well as spreading the word on Beatnik SF, I’m pre-promoting my upcoming TURING & BURROUGHS novel.
Be there if you can. And if you weren’t, see the podcast link at the stat of this post.
I’m just about done with my novel Turing & Burroughs that I’ve been working on for two years. I’ll be selling it through my Transreal Books site starting around September 22, 2012.
Right now you can read my book-length set of notes for the novel, “Notes for Turing & Burroughs,” it’s a free PDF online, it’s about 4 Meg, the length of a novel, profusely illustrated, a free download brought to you by Transreal Books.
This draft cover image is based on a painting I did around October 9, 2010, see my blog post about it: “Turing and the Skugs.”
Up until about a week ago I was calling the book, The Turing Chronicles, but, while doing my final revisions, I decided that Turing & Burroughs: A Beatnik SF Novel is a better fit.
I went ahead and changed history, by updating my many old blog posts on the novel to use the new name. You can get a comprehensive list of the posts with this blog search .
Here are a few of the posts, individually linked.
July 28, 2012. “Transrealism Interview With Leon Marvell,” Includes discussion of TURING & BURROUGHS.
July 16, 2011. Blog post on V-Bomb Blast painting.
July 9, 2011. “Finished 1st Draft of TURING & BURROUGHS.”
May 29, 2011. TURING & BURROUGHS Excerpt. “Bill/Joan Showdown.”
March 4, 2011. “A Skugger’s Point of View.” Painting for TURING & BURROUGHS.
November 9, 2010. “William Burroughs in Palm Beach”.
December 12, 2012. “Burroughs Letters from Tangier.” I modeled two chapters on these.
[Burroughs after his arrest for shooting his wife Joan in Mexico City. Photos found in James Grauerholz, “The Death of Joan Volmer Burroughs: What Really Happened?,” 2002. Joan’s ghost has it out with Bill in my novel.]
September 10, 2010. “What Was Alan Turing Really Like?” With excerpts of Alan Hodges’ bio.
July 7, 2010. “Turing and the Happy Cloak.” Birth of my “skug” concept.
For purposes of SF vitality, and as a kind of promotional move, I’ve decided to put a full copy of my Complete Stories online as a free HTML page. This isn’t a Creative Commons release, it’s a free sample. As before, Complete Stories is Copyright © 2012 Rudy Rucker as a volume, and the individual stories are copyrighted to their authors. If you like what you see, you can buy an ebook or a print version of Complete Stories via the links at Transreal Books.
This huge collection includes collaborations with Bruce Sterling, Paul Di Filippo, Marc Laidlaw, John Shirley, Rudy Rucker Jr., Terry Bisson, and Eileen Gunn.
Just for fun, I’ll post the covers of my earlier story collections, along with the Asimov’s SF magazine covers that feature images of my stories—three of the Asimov’s covers are of tales I co-authored with the redoubtable Bruce Sterling, and one shows a cover of a surfing tale I wrote with Marc Laidlaw.
The Fifty-Seventh Franz Kafka, SF stories, Ace Books 1983.
Transreal!, poems, SF stories and essays, WCS Books 1991.
Gnarl!, SF stories, Four Walls Eight Windows, 2000.
Mad Professor, SF stories, Thunder’s Mouth Press, January 2007.
Complete Stories, all my SF stories as a single ebook or as two print volumes, Transreal Books, 2012
The three Asimov’s covers with Bruce.
Tunguska was a reality-changing UFO—let Laika and the mushrooms show you.
Tweak your “Junk DNA” and become a master of reality.
Giant ants!
And here’s my cover with Marc.
All of reality becomes one perfect wave.
Not to mention the further strange tales by me and my collaborators. Rude boy says check it out.