{"id":1065,"date":"2009-02-25T11:45:58","date_gmt":"2009-02-25T19:45:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/?p=1065"},"modified":"2009-02-25T11:54:51","modified_gmt":"2009-02-25T19:54:51","slug":"hylozoic-writing-notes-literary-archive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/2009\/02\/25\/hylozoic-writing-notes-literary-archive\/","title":{"rendered":"Hylozoic Writing Notes. Literary Archive."},"content":{"rendered":"

I made a Hylozoic <\/em>website <\/a>for my forthcoming novel today\u2014it\u2019ll be out at the start of June, but you can pre-order copies now from the Hylozoic site if you want to (which is a good thing for me, as it sends a signal to Tor that people want to read the book.)<\/p>\n

A more compelling reason to visit the Hylozic site at this point is that it contains a link for my \u201cWriting Notes for Hylozoic,\u201d\u009d which is a whopping 4.3 Meg PDF file, containing a 385 page single-spaced (but nicely formatted) document with the working notes for the book. I have numerous images in the document, as well and internal and external hyperlinks. It\u2019s really a book in itself, about 190,000 words long…which is over twice the length of the actual novel.<\/p>\n

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I recently got this preliminary image of the Hylozoic <\/em>cover from Tor. It’s quite beautiful. For a second I didn\u2019t realize that those blue things are images of a manta ray, but, yeah<\/em>, there they are, the Hrull, not exactly as I\u2019d depict them myself, but nice to see.<\/p>\n

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They might still drop the \u201cSequel to Postsingular\u201d\u009d line from the Hylozoic <\/em>cover, as that kind of phrase could be off-putting for a reader who hasn\u2019t read Postsingular<\/em>. And, I would argue, one could perfectly well read Hylozoic <\/em>on its own, or before Postsingular<\/em>.<\/p>\n

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I was initially surprised that the font of the Hylozoic <\/em>book title was so small, but, looking back, I see that the title was even smaller on the Postsingular <\/em>cover. In any case, I\u2019m proud that my name is printed large, which indicates that my \u201cbrand\u201d\u009d has become a good selling point. And thank god for good old Bill Gibson\u2019s solid-gold blurb. And for the Tor art department. These are some of the best covers I’ve ever had.<\/p>\n

Farewell, Postsingular <\/em>and Hylozoic<\/em>. I liked this world a lot, maybe I\u2019ll be back some day.<\/p>\n

But right now, having finished the initial version of my memoir, Nested Scrolls<\/em>, I\u2019m busy with my next SF novel, Jim and the Flims<\/em>…<\/p>\n

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Well, actually, I\u2019m not working on Jim and the Flims <\/em>this week, instead I\u2019m rooting around in my basement organizing my literary archive. It’s been a cockroach-in-his-nest kind of activity for these rainy winter days. <\/p>\n

It’s weird looking at the three bookshelves of my old writing notes, journals, and book drafts. A life’s work, a vine twining around time\u2019s tree. I’ve been lucky.<\/p>\n

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Conceivably I could sell the archive. As I understand it, the way this works is that you get someone to pay you a substantial sum for your archive, and then they donate it to a university library and they thereby do a public service and get a tax break. Of course, I might get a better deal if I was dead.<\/p>\n

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Oddly, enough, if the writer him or herself donates the archive while alive, he or she can’t take a tax break—Congress passed this law in fury after Nixon got a $19 million tax deduction for donating his papers to the Yorba Linda Nixon Library! Good old Nixon…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I made a Hylozoic website for my forthcoming novel today\u2014it\u2019ll be out at the start of June, but you can pre-order copies now from the Hylozoic site if you want to (which is a good thing for me, as it sends a signal to Tor that people want to read the book.) A more compelling […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1065","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1065","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1065"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1065\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1073,"href":"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1065\/revisions\/1073"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1065"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1065"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1065"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}