July 4, 2010. A talk about new ideas for SF. Role of idea in a book or story. A list of some topics that seem interesting to me. Larry Niven was there, but he fell asleep. That’s okay. Q&A.
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July 4, 2010. A talk about new ideas for SF. Role of idea in a book or story. A list of some topics that seem interesting to me. Larry Niven was there, but he fell asleep. That’s okay. Q&A.
July 3, 2010. A 45 minute talk on the theory and practice of Transreal SF writing in my novels. Starts with a reading of my 1983 “A Transrealist Manifesto” essay. Q&A at the end.
May 22, 2010. Rudy reads from his four-novel cyberpunk omnibus, THE WARE TETRALOGY at the SF in SF gathering in San Francisco. This clip includes the classic “monkey brain feast” scene from SOFTWARE, and Sta-Hi Mooney’s introduction to the drug “merge” in WETWARE.
Nov 24, 2009. Forty minute talk on my life as a writer, followed by ten minutes of Q&A (the actual questions are hard to hear). Taped by my friend Leon Marvell at Deakin College of the University of Melbourne.