{"id":1215,"date":"2009-05-11T09:25:26","date_gmt":"2009-05-11T17:25:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/2009\/05\/11\/hylozoic-is-out\/"},"modified":"2009-05-11T11:32:07","modified_gmt":"2009-05-11T19:32:07","slug":"hylozoic-is-out","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/2009\/05\/11\/hylozoic-is-out\/","title":{"rendered":"Hylozoic is Coming"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/images\/95grassdisk.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>I\u2019ll be leaving the Rudy\u2019s Blog planet for the last two weeks of May\u2014<\/p>\n<p>\u2014because I\u2019m going to be a guest blogger on <a target=\"blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.boingboing.net\">BoingBoing <\/a>from Monday, May 18, 2009 to Saturday, May 31, 2009.  I\u2019ll try for one or two posts a day over there.<\/p>\n<p>It would be nice to have some cool links, so do <a target=\"blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/oldhomepage\/mailrudy.htm\">email suggestions <\/a> to me, preferably with a subject line of  \u201cboing link.\u201d\u009d  I figure that regular readers of Rudy\u2019s Blog might have a notion of what kinds of links interest me&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a target=\"blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/hylozoic\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/images\/hylozoicbannerad600.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The guest blog stint is mainly to promote my new novel <em><b><a target=\"blank\" href=\" https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/hylozoic\">Hylozoic<\/a><\/b><\/em>, which is already printed and goes on sale May 24, 2009.  I&#8217;d like to get some good sales for this book in order to help me continue getting published by a strong mainstream press like Tor.<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019ll be doing a few readings for <em>Hylozoic <\/em>around the SF Bay Area in early June, you can check a <a target=\"blank\" href=\"http:\/\/us.macmillan.com\/Tour.aspx?id=360&#038;publisher=macmillansite\">list of the readings on my publisher\u2019s site<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/images\/ruhylopitch.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>I already got a couple of good reviews for the book, by the way:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Rucker\u2019s yarn of a future where everything\u2014animals, rocks, the planet Earth\u2014is conscious, telepathic and often irrepressibly chatty. Rucker\u2019s approach takes a high-comic trajectory with a satirical edge&#8230; Serious, uproarious fun, with brain-teasers and brilliant ideas tossed about like confetti.<br \/>\n         <em> \u2014 Kirkus Reviews.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p>Bristling with cool ideas, bizarre but witty formulations and neologisms, Carrollian mathematical\/logic puzzles, gnarly tech applications and gonzo speculations, wicked satire, hot sex, nasty aliens, anarchic plots, and psi powers &#8230;  Rucker juggles the disparate elements of his plot with the zany aplomb of the Flying Karamazov Brothers.  His vision of the future is a hopeful and inclusive one\u2014and one hell of a party.<br \/>\n          <em>\u2014 Locus<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Long time readers of this blog will remember that I painted a triptych to help gear up for writing <em>Hylozoic<\/em>, as shown in the image below.  On the left, that &#8216;s Thuy Nguyen with the pigtails, catching sight of the nasty, subdimensoinal subbies.  In the middle, that&#8217;s an alien flying manta ray called a Hrull, about to swallow Hieronymus Bosch.  On the right, that&#8217;s Thuy and Jayjay flying towards the top of a transfinite beanstalk.  (I&#8217;ll be posting a bigger version of this image over at <em>BoingBoing<\/em> next week.)<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/images\/finaltriptych.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>Clearly any reasonable person would want to <a target=\"blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/dp\/0765320746\/ref=nosim\/?tag=rusbl-20&#038;link_code=as3&#038;creative=373489&#038;camp=211189\">order a copy of <em>Hylozoic <\/em>today!<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I\u2019ll be leaving the Rudy\u2019s Blog planet for the last two weeks of May\u2014 \u2014because I\u2019m going to be a guest blogger on BoingBoing from Monday, May 18, 2009 to Saturday, May 31, 2009. I\u2019ll try for one or two posts a day over there. It would be nice to have some cool links, so [&hellip;]<\/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-1215","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\/1215","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=1215"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1215\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1224,"href":"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1215\/revisions\/1224"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1215"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1215"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rudyrucker.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1215"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}